Roots of impact: Roots of impacts builds the market for impact investing. Social impact incentives (siinc) is a funding instrument that rewards high-impact enterprises with premium payments for achieving social impact.
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The Safe Water Program Phase II is a 3-year project funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Aqua for All, with the aim to increase access to safe water at global scale and to contribute to the human right to water through integration of the business models in the national regulation. Supported and documented businesses are ECCA and MinErgy in Nepal, PakoSwiss in Pakistan, Spring Health and TARA in India, Tinkisso in Guinea, and Hydrologic in Cambodia.
https://www.antenna.ch/en/activities/water-hygiene/scaling-up-safe-water/ [Accessed: 31.05.2018]Scaling up safe water
Hydrologic has produced an extended case study documenting its 14 year evolution from a donor-funded NGO project to a sustainable social enterprise.
HYDROLOGIC (2015): Hydrologic: Infiltrating the Market – Evolution of a Social Enterprise. URL [Accessed: 31.05.2018]This very comprehensive technical paper includes important background information, a detailed description of the principle of slow sand filtration and much information on the construction, design and implementation of slow sand filtration plants.
DIJK, J.C. van OOMEN, J.H.C. (1978): Slow Sand Filtration for Community Water Supply in Developing Countries. A Design and Construction Manual. (= IRC Technical Paper Series , 11 ). The Hague: International Reference Centre for Community Water Supply URL [Accessed: 30.05.2018]In the near future, sea-level rise will cause further saltwater intrusion into water resources, while an increasing number of water control structures will increase river salinity –threatening fresh water supplies for drinking and livelihoods, irreversibly impacting people’s lives and livelihoods. Desalination technologies typically require high energy inputs, as well as specialized maintenance procedures, to function sustainably – rendering them inappropriate for water production in low-income areas. The focus of this paper is the development of a ‘Road Map’ for scalable, low energy-input solutions for small-scale desalination.
Kathryn S. Boden Chinmayee V. Subban (2018): A Road Map for Small-Scale Desalination. An overview of existing and emerging technology solutions for cost-efficient and low-energy desalination in South and Southeast Asia. Oxford: Oxfam GB URL [Accessed: 28.05.2018] PDFEste documento es una guía metodológica que integra casos prácticos con principios y técnicas sobre la protección de aguas subterráneas, sobre todo en casos o situaciones de emergencia de peligros naturales o hidrológicos.
VRBA, J. (editor) and VERHAGEN, B. (editor) (2011): Groundwater for Emergency Situations: A Methodological Guide. Paris (France): UNESCO - International Hydrological Programme (IHP), Division of Water Science, IHP-VII Series on Groundwater No. 3. URL [Accessed: 27.05.2018] PDFThis paper provides insights on scientific research on the development of hydroxyapatite nanorods (nHAp) and hydroxyapatite/chitosan nanocomposite (nHApCs) for the removal of lead ions from aqueous lead-containing solutions in a batch adsorption experiment.
Mohammad, A. ; Salah Eldin, T. ; Hassan, M. Bahgat E.El-Anadoulia ; El-Anadoulia, B. (2017): Efficient Treatment of Lead-containing Wastewater by Hydroxyapatite/Chitosan Nanostructures.. المُدخلات: Arabian Journal of Chemistry: Volume 10 , 683-690. URL [Accessed: 23.05.2018]A study on the adsorption of fluoride onto hydroxyapatite was conducted and the process parameters were optimized using Response Surface Methodology (RSM).
MOURABET, M. ; EL RHILASSI, A. ; EL BOUJAADY, H. ; BENNANI-ZIATNI, M. ; EL HAMRI, R. ; TAITAI, A. (2015): Removal of fluoride from aqueous solution by adsorption on hydroxyapatite (HAP) using response surface methodology.. المُدخلات: Journal of Saudi Chemical Society: Volume 19 , 603-615. URL [Accessed: 23.05.2018]