Water Supply
Ensuring Sustained Beneficial Outcomes for Water and Sanitation Programmes in the Developing World
04 Jan 06
The two objectives of this document are firstly to suggest approaches to achieve sustained beneficial outcomes from WATSAN, and secondly how to ‘scale up’ application of these approaches, so that they impact positively on the lives of the millions of people who live without safe water or adequate sanitation.
Read more or download OP40-E.pdf (1.3 MB)
Waste Stabilization Ponds
26 Oct 04
Waste stabilization ponds (WSP) are generally the wastewater treatment process of first choice in most situations in developing countries. They are suitable for both large and small populations (from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands). This TOP introduces WSP for both the specialist design engineer and the non-specialist.
Read more or download TOP11_WSP.pdf (627.2 kB)
Small Community Water Supplies: Technology, people and partnership
01 Jan 02
In 1981 IRC first published Small Community Water Supplies and the book has been a regular bestseller.
Action Monitoring for Effectiveness
01 Jan 00
Action Monitoring for Effectiveness focuses on practical methods to improve projects/programmes in the short term. It emphasizes use of monitoring information at the lowest level possible, with referral to other levels as needed.
Towards Sustainable Water Supply: eight years' experience from Guinea Bissau
01 Jan 95
Documents eight years of experience of the Netherlands-supported project, Maintenance Rural Water Supply (MRW/H14) from 1987 to 1993.
Water Harvesting: a guide for planners and project managers
01 Jan 92
Describes key issues in planning water harvesting systems and shows the main features of the arid and semi-arid lands environment, including landscape profiles. Provides a description of the main water harvesting systems.
Economic Benefits from Improved Rural Water Supply: a review with a focus on women
01 Jan 91
Provides information on the economic benefits of rural water supply interventions and develops a framework for analysis and planning.
Evaluation for Village Water Supply Planning
01 Jan 91
Written by well-known professionals in the sector, this book provides practical advice and information on the components of village water projects to be taken into consideration during an evaluation.
Partners for Progress: an approach to sustainable piped water supplies
01 Jan 91
Based on experiences in demonstration projects with piped supplies for small communities in Malawi, Zambia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Water Harvesting in Five African Countries
01 Jan 90
Reviews the status of water harvesting in Botswana, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania and Togo. Focuses on appropriate technologies, socio-economic aspects, project methodologies and prospects for the 1990s.
