WASH Finance blog
This blog addresses issues related to financing strategies and mechanisms for water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in rural and urban areas with a focus on the poorest and sustainability. It includes news collected by the editor of E-Source and contributions from IRC innovation programme staff working on the Financing and Cost Recovery theme and the WASHCost Project.
Expo Zaragoza 2008 - Water Tribune events
16 Jun 08
“Water and sustainable development” is the theme of Expo Zaragoza 2008. Under the banner of “The Water Tribune” there will be a series of ten thematic weeks, an “Ágora” - a space devoted to citizenship participation, a “water cinema” and nearly 60 parallel events.In collaboration with the World Bank Institute (WBI), a virtual pavilion named [...]
Dubai International Award for Best Practices, submission deadline extended to 30 June
16 Jun 08
UN-HABITAT is inviting submissions for the 7th Cycle of Dubai International Award for Best Practices to improve the living environment. The award acknowledges outstanding contributions that:have a demonstrable and tangible impact on improving people’s quality of life, which includes the “extension of safe water supply and sanitation“are the result of effective partnerships between the public, [...]
ACC and USAID Unite to Bring Clean Water to West Africa
11 Jun 08
ARLINGTON, VA (June 10, 200 - The American Chemistry Council (ACC) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have joined forces to help provide safe drinking water to Ghana, Mali and Niger.The groups announced a new two-year, $1.3 million partnership to implement household-based drinking water programs in communities facing some of the most [...]
India: Acumen Fund Announces New Water Portfolio Investments in Drinking Water and Irrigation for Low-Income Communities
11 Jun 08
New York, NY (PRWEB) June 3, 2008 — Acumen Fund, an international venture philanthropy fund [...] announced the following new investments as part of its expanding water portfolio:An USD 1,369,000 follow-up loan guarantee for WaterHealth International (WHI), for a financing facility they have established in India to build up to 200 rural community water systems; since [...]
2nd International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics, and Finance, Alexandroupolis – Thrace Greece, 3-5 July 2009
10 Jun 08
An international conference is being arranged that will focus on economic, financial and statistical aspects of water and sanitation. The conference is being planned by the IWA Statistics & Economics Specialist Group with the co-operation and sponsorship of the Department of Environmental Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace, the Department of Economics of the [...]
Africa: Japan vows to double aid by 2012, sets up “Water Security Action Team”
06 Jun 08
Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has promised to double his country’s aid to Africa within five years. Mr Fukuda made the pledge in front of leaders from more than 50 African countries at the opening session of the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) in Yokohama.It is competing with other countries like [...]
Water pipe dreams: water and sewer network costs ofter higher than the benefits
04 Jun 08
“While we often assume that the benefits of improving water and sanitation systems always outweigh the costs, this is not always true”, say Dale Whittington [photo left] and Bjørn Lomborg [photo right]. New research for Copenhagen Consensus reveals that the full cost of piping water to a household is as high as $80 per month [...]
Financing Development 2008: Whose Ownership? [book]
02 Jun 08
Development Centre StudiesFinancing Development 2008: Whose Ownership?OECD Publishing, 114 p. ISBN: 9789264045583Version: Print (Paperback) + Free PDF - Price: €40 | $52Version: E-book (PDF Format) - Price: €28 | $36Ordering informationAid alone cannot finance development; bringing in fresh sources of finance is essential. The emergence of a multiplicity of new financing [...]
Cameroon: multifunctional water fountain also serves as a meeting place and store
28 May 08
Since the 1990s when the Cameroon government stopped providing free water in urban centres, most of the population of the commercial capital Douala have had to resort to digging their own wells, which are often contaminated. But four years ago, a shiny futurist-looking structure sprang up in Bessengué Akwa, one of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods, [...]
Tanzania: Dar es Salaam water kiosks four times cheaper than vendors
28 May 08
Less than a quarter of the four million people living in Tanzania’s financial capital have running water in their homes, city water authorities say. With poor areas typically amongst those lacking piped water, most impoverished city dwellers rely on private vendors to bring them supplies.As a consequence, low-income residents pay higher prices for the vital [...]
