Operation & Maintenance
Too many water supply and sanitation systems function very poorly and often the systems are not in operation. One of the key problems is the fact that operation and maintenance has been neglected since the commissioning of the system.
Water Privatisation Revisited: Panacea or pancake?
01 Jan 03
In Water Privatisation Revisited the authors set out to demonstrate that, far from increasing competition in the operation and management of water and sewerage services, privatisation actually reduces it.
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Operation and Maintenance of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Systems: a training package for managers and planners
01 Jan 00
The updated training package is designed as a guide to facilitators who will conduct courses or workshops on management of operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation services.
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Operation and Maintenance of Sanitation Systems in Urban Low-Income Areas in India and Thailand: report on a joint research programme, 1989-1993
01 Jan 98
Previously issued as an unpublished report on a comparative research study carried out in India, te Netherlands and Thailand by: the Human Settlements Management Institute (HSMI), India; the National Housing Authority (NHA) and the Faculty of Engineering
Multi-Stage Filtration: an innovative water treatment technology
01 Jan 98
Introduces multi-stage filtration (MSF) as a sustainable technology that is in harmony with local conditions and available management capacity of most communities.
Linking Technology Choice with Operation and Maintenance for Low-Cost Water Supply and Sanitation
01 Jan 97
This guidance manual is designed to help in the selection of rural and low-income water supply and sanitation technologies. Part I provides an introduction to operation and maintenance and the factors influencing technology choice.
Simplified Water Quality Assessment for Multi-Stage Filtration
01 Jan 97
This publication underscores the importance of making a sanitary catchment survey to gain insight into the health and hygiene risks associated with the use of a specific water source for drinking water supply.
Village Level Operation and Maintenance of Handpumps: experiences from Karonga, Malawi
01 Jan 96
This paper documents the experiences from the Karonga Lakeshore Groundwater Project, a small rural water supply project in northern Malawi, and emphasizes that village level operation and maintenance (VLOM) is not a technical but a community concept.
Making Your Water Supply Work: operation and maintenance of small water supplies
01 Jan 95
Provides recent information on trends and developments in the operation and maintenance of water supply systems of small communities, based on a review of available literature, comments from the Operation and Maintenance Working Group of the Water Supply
Taking Care of Your Water Supply: a manual for community-based operation and maintenance of piped water systems
01 Jan 93
Draws on the experience of community-based water supply projects carried out in Malawi, Zambia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka between 1983 and 1992.
A Manual on Operation and Maintenance of Communal Standposts for Extension Workers and Caretakers
01 Jan 91
Produced to assist extension workers in supporting community water committees, and in particular, caretakers, in appropriate operation and maintenance of their piped supply systems.
