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This paper compares water and sanitation system options for a coastal community across selected sustainability metrics, including environmental impact (i.e., life cycle eutrophication potential, energy consumption, and global warming potential), equivalent annual cost, and local human health impact.
The GreenFacts Initiative is a non-profit project with an independent Scientific Board and a non-advocacy policy. Its mission is to bring complex scientific consensus reports on health and the environment to the reach of non-specialists. GreenFacts publishes clear, faithful, and verified summaries of existing scientific reports on health, the environment and sustainable development.
Aqua for All is a non-profit organization established in 2002 by the Dutch water sector. Aqua for All is a well-known source of expertise on water, sanitation and hygiene-related challenges, offering a broad range of services to the public and private sector. With its business-like, efficient and result-oriented approach, the organization inspires and supports its stakeholders to help the world’s Base of the Pyramid gain sustainable access to safe water and adequate sanitation.
Freshwater Action Network South Asia (FANSA) aims to strengthen the engagement of CSOs in policy-making and development initiatives to achieve the international targets on water and sanitation, improve regional co-operation between CSOs of differing perspectives, priorities and skills and increase the number of NGOs to advocate and communicate clearly on water policy issues and the broader agenda.
This study provides an assessment of the global costs of meeting the WASH-related targets of Goal #6. The targets assessed include achieving universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all (target 6.1), achieving access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all, and ending open defecation (target 6.2).
MENZIES, I. (2016): Delivering Universal and Sustainable Water Services: Partnering with the Private Sector. URL [Accessed: 19.06.2018] PDFHuman Right to Water and Sanitation Toolkit from United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commission (OHCHR) provides interesting methodologies, tools and reports on Human Right to Water and Sanitation in practice.
This paper explores the current status of the adoption and sustained use of HWTS and the critical factors that influence adoption and sustained use of it, including the Enabling Environment.
MURCOTT (2006): Implementation, Critical Factors and Challenges to Scale-Up of Household Drinking Water Treatment and Safe Storage Systems. URL [Accessed: 18.06.2018]The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) is a decision support tool on the applicability, scalability and sustainability of a specific Water, Sanitation or Hygiene (WASH) technology to provide lasting services in a specific context and on the readiness for its introduction.
https://technologyapplicability.wordpress.com/ [Accessed: 18.06.2018]This synthesis report documents the implementation process, results and lessons learned under a three-year Technical Assistance programme undertaken by the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank’s Water Global Practice (WSP) in Cambodia between May 2013 and June 2016. The publication presents in addition recommendations for the government on key steps to accelerate service delivery at scale for Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene.
WORLD BANK GROUP (EDITOR) (2017): Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals : Synthesis Report of the WASH Poverty Diagnostic Initiative. URL [Accessed: 18.06.2018]An online platform
Video lecture (with audio) on source seperating systems for the treatment of wastewater, held by Prof. Petter Jenssen from the University of Life Sciences, Norway.
Loowatt is an example of waterless sanitation solutions that can be used where there is a need for non-sewered toilets.
https://www.loowatt.com/ [Accessed: 15.06.2018]To improve the health of rural Alaska residents, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, in coordination with tribal, state and federal agencies, is spearheading a research and development effort to find better and more affordable ways to deliver drinking water and sewage disposal services to rural Alaska.
The QMRA Wiki is a community portal for current quantitative information and knowledge developed for the Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) field. It is an evolving knowledge repository intended to be the go to reference source for the microbial risk assessment community.