SEI, UNEP (2009) Rainwater harvesting: a lifeline for human well-being
Rainfall and soil water are fundamental parts of all terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems which supplies goods and services for human well-being. Availability and quality of water determines ecosystem productivity, both for agricultural and natural systems. There is increasing demand on water resources for development whilst maintaining healthy ecosystems, which put water resources under pressure. Ecosystem services suffer when rain and soil water becomes scarce due […]
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Thomson, P., Hope, R. A., Foster, T. (2012) Is silence golden? Of mobiles, monitoring, and rural water supplies
Reliable and cost-effective monitoring of rural water supply infrastructure has long been hampered by the geographical curse of dispersed and low-income populations, and weak institutional performance. Recent advances in monitoring technology combined with mobile network expansion into rural areas has created an opportunity to bypass these seemingly intractable challenges. Mobile-enhanced technologies have the potential to produce data that is orders of magnitude richer, faster, and […]
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Bourke, N., Carty, G., O’Leary, G., Crowe, M., Page, D (2002) Water Treatment Manuals Coagulation, Flocculation & Clarification
Absolutely pure water is rarely, if ever, found in nature. The impurities occur in three progressively finer states - suspended, colloidal and dissolved matter. Different methods of treatment are required for their removal or reduction to acceptable limits. Coagulation, Flocculation and Clarification, as well as Filtration are interdependent stages of the solids separationphase of water treatment. Failure or inadequacy in any of the stages will have adverse […]
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Boges & Mahoney Inc. (0) B1-150 OSEC® System. Manual
The OSEC® (On Site Electrolytic Chlorination) hypochlorite generationequipment described in this manual is designed for the continuous production of sodium hypochlorite from brine. The sodium hypochlorite isused in the disinfection of water supplies, being an alternative to the useof gaseous chlorination. The sodium hypochlorite produced by the OSECmethod is of much lower concentration than normal commercial suppliesand is thus far less hazardous to handle and […]
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Steets, J. (2011) Donor Strategies for Addressing the Transition Gap and Linking Humanitarian and Development Assistance A Contribution to the International Debate
Humanitarian assistance and development cooperation pursue different aims and follow different principles. Their separation – while important to protect the independence of humanitarian action – has negative side effects. This paper seeks to contribute to the international debate by clarifying concepts, analyzing these effects and exploring donor strategies for addressing them. The state of the debate The paper first defines the subject area – the main forms […]
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Baumann, E. (2011) Low Cost Handpumps
Groundwater supplies provide a significant proportion of rural dwellers in the developing world with access to a safe drinking water supply and will continue to do so in the near future. With the emergence of Self Supply and its increasing acceptance, low-cost handpumps have a role to play. Twenty five years ago the emphasis was on completely enclosed pumps (for drinking water only) to avoid […]
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Sphere Association (2018) The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
The Sphere Project, now known as Sphere, was created in 1997 by a group of humanitarian non-governmental organisations and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Its aim was to improve the quality of their humanitarian responses and to be accountable for their actions. The Sphere philosophy is based on two core beliefs: • People affected by disaster or conflict have the right to life with […]
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Souter, P. F., Cruickshank, G. D., Tankerville, M. Z., Keswick, B. H., Ellis, B. D., Langworthy, D. E., Metz, K. A., Appleby, M. R., Hamilton, N., Jones, A. L., Perry, J. D. (2003) Evaluation of a new water treatment for point-of-use household applications to remove microorganisms and arsenic from drinking water
Contamination of drinking water by microorganisms and arsenic represents a major human health hazard in many parts of the world. An estimated 3.4 million deaths a year are attributable to waterborne diseases. Arsenic poisoning from contaminated water sources is causing a major health emergency in some countries such as Bangladesh where 35 to 77 million people are at risk. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently […]
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Baumann, E. (2000) Water Lifting Manuals on Drinking Water Supply. Volume 7
Focusing on the task of pumping water, Water Lifting serves either as a stand-alone reference text or as a valuable companion for the publications in this series that focus more on the subject of ensuring primary access to potable water.
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Bauer, R., Myint, S. (2009) Dry Season Water Strategies in Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis
For many residents of the Ayeyarwady Delta of Myanmar, rainwater collection from village ponds and roof tops serves as the primary source of potable water throughout the year. In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis struck the Delta region, damaging many of these ponds by breaching their embankments or filling them with debris and saline water. Despite the ef orts of the international aid community […]
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Bartram, J. et al. (2009) Water Safety Plan Manual Step-by-step Risk Management for Drinking-Water
“The most effective means of consistently ensuring the safety of a drinking-water supply is through the use of a comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that encompasses all steps in water supply from catchment to consumer. In these Guidelines, such approaches are called water safety plans (WSPs)”. The words above open Chapter 4 of the Third Edition of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality (2004) […]
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Bamford, E., Zadi, D. (2016) Scaling Up Solar Powered Water Supply Systems a review of experiences
Over the past few years, UNICEF has been exploring new and innovative approaches to water supply, placing an emphasis on systems which are affordable, scalable, environmentally sustainable and climate smart. Solar powered water systems have the potential to meet all of these criteria. The systems can also help provide a higher quality service to multiple communities through the use of small piped water schemes and […]
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TNUSSP (2021) Guidelines for Sanitation Workers
Sanitation has been declared one of the essential services during the COVID-19 crisis. Sanitation workers are an integral part of sanitation service delivery and TNUSSP team has been engaging with them with the objective of improving their safety, health and welfare. In response to the current public health crisis, TNUSSP has developed a set of guidelines for different categories of sanitation workers such as community/public […]
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Ball, P. (2001) Drilled Wells Vol.6 of the Series of Manuals on Drinking Water Supply
Access to adequate water, sanitation, drainage and solid waste disposal are four inter-related basic needs which impact significantly on socio-economic development and quality of life. The number of people around the world who still do not have access to these basic facilities, despite enormous global effort over more than two decades, provides sufficient evidence that conventional approaches and solutions alone are unable to make a sufficient dent in the […]
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Sobsey, M. D. (2002) Managing Water in the Home: Accelerated Health Gains from Improved Water Supply
A large fraction of the World's population around 1.1 billion people - does not have access to improved sources of water. For many others, contamination of water during transport and in the household presents a significant health risk. For this segment of the world's population, use of effective technologies for household water treatment and storage is likely to have direct beneficial effects in the form […]
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Bain et al. (2012) A Summary Catalogue of Microbial Drinking Water Tests for Low and Medium Resource Settings
Microbial drinking-water quality testing plays an essential role in measures to protect public health. However, such testing remains a significant challenge where resources are limited. With a wide variety of tests available, researchers and practitioners have expressed difficulties in selecting the most appropriate test(s) for a particular budget, application and setting. To assist the selection process we identified the characteristics associated with low and medium […]
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Smout, I., Shaw, R. (1991) Intakes from rivers
A typical small water supply system requires less than about 200,000 litres per day, which is well within the capacity of small streams and alternative water sources, other than rivers. Indeed a river is not the ideal source of domestic water in many situations and an intake would normally be constructed only if there is no satisfactory alternative source such as groundwater (handpump), rainwater (catchment […]
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ARUP et al. (2019) Surface Water Management in Humanitarian Contexts Practical guidance on surface water management & drainage for field practitioners
Appropriate and adequate surface water management is essential to humanitarian response. To date, there has been limited guidance available to practitioners summarized as follows: Little information beyond basic assessment of flood risk and implications of standing water on a site. Limited guidance on surface water quality with most of the information focusing on the management of water quantity; and few mitigation techniques and their suitable use have […]
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Smet, J., Van Wijk, C. (2002) Small Community Water Supplies Technology, people and partnership
Water is essential to man, animals and plants. Without water life on earth would not exist. From the very beginning of human civilization, families have settled close to water sources, along rivers, beside lakes or near natural springs. Indeed where people live, some water is normally available for drinking, domestic use, and possibly for watering animals. This does not imply that the source is convenient […]
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TNUSSP (2021) Women in Sanitation Campaign 2021
To celebrate the occasion of International Women’s day on March 8 th , the Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support Programme (TNUSSP) and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) has launched a social media campaign on women in sanitation. The stories being shared on social media raises important questions, not just to women but also to men who are playing different roles across the full […]
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