Perspectives are different frameworks from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. Perspectives are like filters: they compile and structure the information that relate to a given focus theme, region or context. This allows you to quickly navigate to the content of your particular interest while promoting the holistic understanding of sustainable sanitation and water management.
If you enter the keyword “water cycle” into youtube, you will find an array of short videos explaining the water cycle, in many different languages, and for different age levels.
Ice, snow and climate change are closely linked. The Global Outlook for Ice and Snow investigates those linkages. It also presents information on the trends in ice and snow, the outlook for this century and beyond and the consequences to ecosystems and human well-being of these changes. It covers all parts of the cryosphere (the world of ice): snow, land ice, sea ice, river and lake ice, and frozen ground. The Global Outlook for Ice and Snow was written by more than 70 scientists from around the world. The full report can be downloaded from: http://www.unep.org/geo/geo_ice/
UNEP (2007): Highlights of the Global Outlook for Ice and Snow. In: UNEP (2007): Global Outlook for Ice and Snow. Kenya: 7-18. URL [Accessed: 06.05.2010]The website of GWP contains the toolbox as a web-based learning tool itself and additionally all publications by GWP. Topics of IWRM, Good Water Governance and many more IWRM related issues are discussed in a very comprehensive way. A very extensive collection of high-quality papers are available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. The site also contains a very extensive collection of case studies
Official web page of the Ecological Sanitation Research Programme (EcoSanRes). The EcosanRes Programme aims to develop and promote sustainable sanitation in the developing world through capacity development and knowledge management as a contribution to equity, health, poverty alleviation, and improved environmental quality. It contains numerous helpful publications, and also allows you to gain access to the ecosanres discussion forum, currently the most active discussion forum on ecological sanitation.
This web site contains a library of more than 60 documents produced in the frame of the EU funded Coordination Action NETSSAF, which served as the baseline for the preparation of the tutorial and guideline.
Project WET is an organization dedicated to the mission of reaching children, parents, teachers and community members of the world with water education. The website contains a lot of material, in particular for school classes – however, project wet charges for some of its products.
This policy brief summarises findings from the publication "Water for food, water for life": A Comparative Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, 2007, showing that reversing land degradation is an essential step in improving water productivity and rural livelihoods - particularly in low-yielding rainfed systems.
CARRIGER, S. (2007): Managing Water by Managing Land: Why addressing land degradation is necessary to improve water productivity and rural livelihoods. (= Water for Food, Water for Life Issue Brief #10 ). London: Earthscan URL [Accessed: 06.05.2010]
This book not only identifies the threats to human and ecological health that water pollution has and highlights the consequences of inaction, but also presents opportunities, where appropriate policy and management responses over the short and longer term can trigger employment, support livelihoods, boost public and ecosystem health and contribute to more intelligent water management.
CORCORAN, E. ; NELLEMANN, C. ; BAKER, E. ; BOS, R. ; OSBORN, D. ; SAVELLI, H. (2010): Sick Water? The central role of wastewater management in sustainable development. A Rapid Response Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UN-HABITAT, GRID-Arendal URL [Accessed: 05.05.2010] PDF
This manual provides information on functionality of septic systems containing the modules septic tank and leach field and addresses the user at the household level. Construction, maintenance and operation are described.
IDAHO DEQ (2001): A Homeowner's Guide to Septic Systems. Boise: Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (IDAHO DEQ) URL [Accessed: 04.05.2010]
This document by the MSP Resources Portal of the University of Wageningen, Centre for Development Innovation, gives a short but concise overview of locality mapping. The link http://portals.wi.wur.nl/msp/?page=1230 also describes other tools for multi-stakeholder processes.
MSP RESOURCE PORTAL (2009): Multi-Stakeholder Processes: Locality Mapping. Wageningen: Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation. [Accessed: 04.05.2010] PDFWHO drinking water quality web page, with different material on the topic “contaminated drinking water contributing to disease in developing and developed countries worldwide”.
This report explores the power of participatory mapping. Covering a range of techniques, intermediaries, tools and impacts, it is shown how a systematic approach could contribute to addressing conflict-related issues and improving community ownership in sustainable environmental and natural resource management.
IFAD (2009): Good Practices in Participatory Mapping. Rome: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) URL [Accessed: 04.05.2010]The EU Water Framework Directive - integrated river basin management for Europe. It established a framework for community action in the field of water policy.
The World Bank understands participation as a process through which stakeholders influence and share control over development initiatives. The sourcebook shall help the reader to discover how this can be provided. Note that due to the large file size of this document, some pages were cropped.
WORLD BANK (1996): The World Bank Participation Source Book. (= Environmental Management Series ). Washington: World Bank URL [Accessed: 04.05.2010]
This case study highlights several IWRM lessons from recent research in the Shiwalki Hills, Haryana, India. Specifically, two villages are examined to determine how social, political, and environmental factors drive the institutions which manage these common pool resources.
GWP (n.y): INDIA - Community Watershed Management Socities in Rrual India. Global Water Partnership URL [Accessed: 03.05.2010]
This paper discusses water governance in a coherent way, and shows relations to IWRM and development.
ROGERS, P. HALL, A.W. (2003): Effective Water Governance. (= TEC Background Papers , 7 ). Stockholm: Global Water Partnership URL [Accessed: 03.05.2010]
This paper focuses on the implications for poverty reduction of taking an integrated approach to water resources management.
GWP (2003): Poverty Reduction and IWRM. (= TEC Background Papers , 8 ). Stockholm: Global Water Partnership URL [Accessed: 03.05.2010]
Biogas is a green energy using new technology. Undoubtedly, the produced kW cost is not yet a competitor against nuclear or fossil fuel energies, but the systems installed are more and more efficient, and their financial profitability is increasing. Marc Schaller reports.
SCHALLER, M. (2007): Biogas electricity production hits 17,272GWh a year in Europe. In: Engineer Live: , 46-49 . URL [Accessed: 03.05.2010]