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: 

 

Drip Irrigation

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Subsurface Drip Irrigation

Subsurface drip irrigation is a variation from conventional surface drip irrigation techniques. By minimising evaporation it uses water more…
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Crop Selection

Different crops need different type of soils, different types and amounts of nutrients, and different types and amounts of water. The amount of water…
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Safe Storage

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Drilled Wells

Drilled wells can serve as a low-cost water supply for single households, for small rural communities and for more urban areas. The working principle…
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Microfinance

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Analyse your market

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Marketing

A company’s marketing mix most commonly consists of the “4Ps of marketing”: product, place, price and promotion. They are intricately and sensitively…
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Learn how to manage your finances

Financial Management is a vital task for every company and should always draw the attention of an entrepreneur. This factsheet covers three distinct…
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Water Vendors

Water vendors are common in many parts of the world where water scarcity or lack of infrastructure limit access to drinking water, particularly in…
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CSP - A Living Document

The process of preparing the City Sanitation Plan (CSP) allows bringing together the key stakeholders into a City Sanitation Task Force and…
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Blue Ocean Strategy

The Blue/Red Ocean Strategy is a way of assessing your business against your competitors in order to identify your competitive advantage. It is based…
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Prepare your elevator pitch

As an entrepreneur, you will need to be prepared to take every opportunity to gain interest in your start-up from potential customers, investors, or…
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Partners & Network

Companies can enter into partnerships with different types of organisations and with varying intensity. Possible benefits from partnerships can be…
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Dry Toilet

A dry toilet is a toilet that operates without flushwater. The dry toilet may be a raised pedestal on which the user can sit, or a squat pan over…
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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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