Affordable Water and Sanitation Solutions

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Affordable Water and Sanitation Solutions

Explore entrepreneurial solutions and technologies to provide water and sanitation services and products at an affordable cost for:

Affordable solutions for viable sanitation and water management 

How can you improve or extend water and sanitation services affordably, and so reach a larger market, including people at the so-called base of the pyramid (BoP)? 

You can use this toolbox to identify opportunities, help your customers to obtain water and sanitation, and build your business. In addition, it:

  • Tells you how you can strengthen your business by involving customers and the public in decisions and operations
  • Helps you tailor your business model to the specific needs of different customers
  • Offers information on high- and low-tech solutions as well as other options for delivering water and sanitation inexpensively

Identifying sound solutions and strategies

You can use this toolbox to identify opportunities, help your customers to obtain water and sanitation, and build your business.

Explore the resources below: 

 

For more information

You might want to look at two complementary sources: 

 

Explore entrepreneurial solutions and technologies to provide water and sanitation services and products at an affordable cost for:

Affordable solutions for viable sanitation and water management 

How can you improve or extend water and sanitation services affordably, and so reach a larger market, including people at the so-called base of the pyramid (BoP)? 

You can use this toolbox to identify opportunities, help your customers to obtain water and sanitation, and build your business. In addition, it:

  • Tells you how you can strengthen your business by involving customers and the public in decisions and operations
  • Helps you tailor your business model to the specific needs of different customers
  • Offers information on high- and low-tech solutions as well as other options for delivering water and sanitation inexpensively

Identifying sound solutions and strategies

You can use this toolbox to identify opportunities, help your customers to obtain water and sanitation, and build your business.

Explore the resources below: 

 

For more information

You might want to look at two complementary sources: 

 

Surface Groundwater Recharge

Artificial recharge is the planned, man-made increase of groundwater levels. By improving its natural replenishment capacities and percolation from…

Water Safety Plans

Water Safety Plans are an improved risk management tool designed to ensure the safety of drinking water through the use of a comprehensive risk…

Social Marketing (DC)

Social marketing is the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote the adoption of behaviour that will improve the health or well-being of the…

SWOT Analysis

SWOT analyses can be a helpful tool to analyse an organisation or a planned or ongoing sanitation and water management and its environment. The…

Problem & Preference Ranking

Problem/Preference Ranking is a participatory technique that allows analysing and identifying problems or preferences stakeholder share in order to…

Venn Diagrams

Venn diagrams were developed by the logician John Venn. They represent an easy way to identify structures or relationships among organisations and…

Community Action Plan

A community action plan is a road map for implementing community change by identifying and specifying WHAT will be done, Who will do it and HOW it…

Project Proposal Writing

A proposal is a request for financial assistance to implement a project. The proposal outlines the plan of the implementing organisation about the…

Operation and Maintenance

Generally, water and sanitation projects experience their most serious problems with operation and maintenance and with cost recovery aspects.…

Demand Creation - General

Various water and sanitation programmes have failed in the past because they were supply driven. It is of prime importance to understand that people…

Water Pricing - General

In July 2010, the UN general assembly proclaimed access to safe drinking water and sanitation as a human right. At the same time, water and…

Advanced Filters

Advanced point-of-use filter systems of various designs, costs and effectiveness are today readily available all over the world. While these systems…

Desalination

The chemical process of changing seawater into potable or fresh water is called desalination. Thermal distillation and membrane processes are the two…

Arsenic Removal Technologies

Manual Irrigation

Manual irrigation systems are very simple, but effective methods for making water available to crops. Manual irrigation systems are easy to handle…

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The Swiss Bluetec Bridge 

The Swiss Bluetec Bridge was launched in November 2012. It strives to accelerate sustainable access to water and sanitation for local residents – especially the poorest in society – in rural areas and in small towns in developing and emerging economies, by providing them with advanced Swiss technology and innovation.

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Seecon GmbH

 

 

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