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Presentation on urban agriculture activities in the City of Gampaha, Sri Lanka, including plenty of pictures on different vertical garden technologies implemented.
RANASINGHE, T. (2007): Review of UPA activities in Gampaha, Sri Lanka: Lessons Learned. In: Proceedings of the RUAF CFF Regional Advisory Board Meeting.:
PDF presentation on the technical and non-technical aspects of sanitation systems in developing countries.
EAWAG/SANDEC (2008): Sanitation Systems and Technologies. Presentation. (= Sandec Training Tool 1.0, Module 4 ). Duebendorf: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science (Eawag), Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries (Sandec)
Report describing the development, configuration and complete structure of the Early Warning System, including outcomes of the performed simulations in the case studies of Santiago and Aarhus.
THE WATERUN CONSORTIUM (2022): Deliverable D5.4: Implementation of EWS for a safe UWR reuse and management. In: WATERUN Project, EU Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No. 101060922. : PDF
This brochure describes composting and the “Community-based Waste Management and Composting Pilot Program,” implemented in urban slum and suburban areas of Bangladesh by Waste Concern, with support from Government of Bangladesh and UNICEF.
WASTE CONCERN Community based Composting. Dhaka: Waste Concern
This document is part of a set of three resource documents included in the Integrity Management toolbox for Water service Providers (WsPs):
- Facilitator’s Guide
- Description of WsP Integrity risks
- Description of WsP Integrity Instruments (this document)
This description of WsP Integrity risks provides detailed descriptions of the most common integrity risks for WsPs, including examples of “red flags” (warning signs indicating potential lack of integrity in a WsP) and concrete examples from different public sources for each risk. the integrity risks are organised in six categories, which are oriented along the departments / work areas commonly found in WsPs:
- Customer relations
- Operations and maintenance
- Financial management
- Procurement and contract management
- Governance, management and controls
- Human resources management and employment
Most of the integrity risks at the level of WsPs are generic and comparable across the globe. A handful of country-specific risks do, however, exist. Most of these country-specific risks are likely to be found in the risk area “Governance, management and controls” and
are for example linked to the political and regulatory framework, the governance of WsPs, or the roles and responsibilities of other water sector institutions.
A short publication with illustrations on different household water treatment options, which is designed to provide information on household water treatment to school children.
DWSS (2007): Household Water Treatment Options. Notebook Cover. Kathmandu, Nepal: Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS)The short film “Story of Bottled Water” (8 min.) is a very amusing and informative way to get into the issue of bottled water.
About 75 % of Berlin's drinking water is bank filtrate or artificially recharged groundwater. At the same time, Berlin's treated wastewater is being discharged partially upstream of bank filtration sites.
ZIEGLER, D.H. (2001): Untersuchungen zur nachhaltigen Wirkung der Uferfiltration im Wasserkreislauf Berlin. Dissertation. Berlin: Fakultät III - Prozesswirtschaften der Technischen Universität BerlinLanguage: German
In an endeavor to engage more sources of capital from private and public actors with water-related interventions, a project called Unlocking Investments for Water Entrepreneurship was kicked off. The results of this project are collected in this guidebook, which aims to connect investors and water enterprises with shared goals. The guide does this by providing:
- An overview of the water sector from an investor’s point of view;
- An outline of the different typologies of water enterprises, including key characteristics of their business models, enterprise setup, and revenue generation; and
- Knowledge of the diverse investment instruments, ranging from traditional to innovative models.
This study is a collaborative effort between the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) and the Initiative for Blended Finance at the University of Zurich, as well as the Center for Entrepreneurship in Water and Sanitation (cewas), enabling the interweaving of knowledge from both the industry and academia. The goal of the body of work is to allow water enterprises and ecosystem actors, such as incubators and accelerators, to identify and approach suitable financial sources for the relevant enterprise typologies, while funders can seek out suitable enterprises or financing instruments, depending on their objective.
KWON, T. TRUONG, C. HERMANN-FRIEDE, J. BUSSMANN, A. (2021): Unlocking Investments for Water Entrepreneurship. Zurich, Switzerland: University of Zurich PDF