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This volume of the Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality explains requirements to ensure drinking-water safety, including minimum procedures and specific guideline values, and how those requirements are intended to be used. The volume also describes the approaches used in deriving the guidelines, including guideline values. It includes fact sheets on significant microbial and chemical hazards.
WHO (EDITOR) (2011): Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, Fourth Edition. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) URL [Accessed: 11.07.2018]This document provides an overview on all related updates for SDG 6 until its issue date.
WHO UNICEF (2017): Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Update and SDG Baselines 2017. Geneva: PDF![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/United%20Nations%20Human%20Rights%20office%202011%20%20Guiding%20principles%20on%20business%20and%20human%20rights.png)
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In this book, Barlow draws on her extensive experience and insight to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a “water-secure and water-just world.” Focusing on solutions, she includes stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized communities, as well as government policies that work for both people and the planet.
BARLOW, M. (2013): Blue future – Protecting water for the people and the planet forever. URL [Accessed: 20.06.2018]This article assesses risks water supply and sanitation providers in Peru are facing and proposes as solution a risk protection scheme.
WSP (EDITOR) (2012): Peru: Disaster Risk Management in Water and Sanitation Utilities Volume I: Catastrophic Risk Profile, Mitigation Measures and Financial Protection. The Case of SEDAPAL and EMAPICA. Lima: World Bank URL [Accessed: 20.06.2018]There are a variety of entities in Alaska working towards improving health outcomes in rural Alaska by providing and improving water services in villages. The US Arctic Research Commission (USARC) is coordinating these groups so that this work is maximally efficient and ideas can be shared across federal, state, Alaska Native, and academic groups. The group we coordinate is called the Alaska Rural Water and Sanitation Working Group and our work is directly applicable to the USARC’s priority goal of Arctic Human Health.
AMAP`s mission is to provide reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment.
The PPPLab is an action research and joint learning and support initiative to learn about the relevance and effectiveness of PPPs. Starting point is the Dutch government supported public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the food and water domains in developing countries. Its mission is to extract and co-create knowledge and methodological lessons from and on PPPs that can be used to improve both implementation and policy.