Water Resources
Climbing the Water Ladder - Multiple-Use Water Services for Poverty Reduction
15 Aug 09
This book shows how multiple-use water services (MUS) are best suited to meeting people’s diverse water needs.
Read more or download TP52_Climbing_2009.pdf (3.6 MB)
Gestión integral del riesgo para la protección de los servicios de agua potable y saneamiento ante las amenazas naturales
18 Nov 08
Este TOP identifica la naturaleza esencial de los servicios de agua potable y saneamiento para el desarrollo humano y la rehabilitación después de los desastres naturales. Explica la manera en que la gestión integral del riesgo está ayudando a los países a tratar con el incremento de los desastres naturales extremos y que prevenir es mejor y más barato que combatir.
Read more or download TOP21_RM_Sp_08.pdf (645.6 kB)
Arsenic in Drinking Water
22 Mar 07
This TOP outlines the global extent of arsenic contamination and its basic chemistry, as well as associated health problems. It looks at removal technologies for centralised and household point-of-use systems, and describes two case-study trials in Bangladesh and in Hungary.
Read more or download TOP17_Arsenic_07.pdf (1.0 MB)
Multi-Stage Filtration
08 Nov 06
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) provides the basis for sector professionals to become aware of Multi-Stage Filtration (MSF) technology and to learn more about it. It examines why MSF is a viable technological option and explains its advantages and disadvantages.
Read more or download TOP15_MFS_06.pdf (1.5 MB)
IWRM
28 Jun 04
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) aims to point readers towards ways of adopting and benefiting from IWRM principles in the water supply and sanitation (WATSAN) sub-sector. The full paper can be downloaded as pdf file.
Read more or download IWRM_Final_.pdf (166.7 kB)
Integrated Catchment Management and Sustainable Water Resource Development in Semi-arid Zimbabwe
31 Dec 02
The main message of the document is that groundwater in much of semi-arid Zimbabwe is a currently underused but fast developing resource that plays a key role in the livelihoods of rural people.
Read more or download OP35_IntegratedCatchment.pdf (2.6 MB)
Integrated Water Resource Management in Water and Sanitation Projects- Lessons from 11 projects in Africa, Asia and South America
31 Dec 98
The document reports the findings of a participatory review of 11 drinking water and sanitation supply (DWSS) and integrated water resource management (IWRM) projects from around the world.
Drinking Water Source Protection: a review of environmental factors affecting community water supplies
31 Dec 90
Presents an overview of the problems of protecting drinking water sources, analyzes their causes and nature and identifies ways of controlling or solving them.
A Groundwater Primer. Enlarged edition
31 Dec 90
Enlarged edition of a document originally published in 1981 and republished with corrections in 1983. Presents the basic principles of hydrology as an introduction to the occurrence and movement of groundwater in practical situations.
