Sustainability
According to Global Water Challenge, sustainability is one of the most pressing issues facing the WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) sector today. More than 30 percent of WASH projects fail after two to five years. Resources available to help address this challenge include guidance on operations and maintenance approaches, tools to estimate long-term costs, and other resources to support sustainability.
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Sustainability Resources
Global Freshwater Resources: Soft-Path Solutions for the 21st Century
Published:
December 3, 2003Pacific Institute
Twentieth-century water policies relied on the construction of massive infrastructure in the form of dams, aqueducts, pipelines, and complex centralized treatment plants to meet human demands. These facilities brought tremendous benefits to billions of people, but they also had serious and often...Read more
A Review of Decision-Making Support Tools in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Sector
Published:
May 15, 2008Pacific Institute
This report evaluates 120 existing resources in the WASH sector, finds significant gaps, and recommends the development of a decision-making tool that can help practitioners evaluate which approaches are appropriate for their situation.Read more
mWASH: Mobile Phone Applications for the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Sector
Published:
April 1, 2012Pacific Institute
Billions of the world's poor still lack access to basic water and sanitation services, yet many of them can count mobile phones among their possessions. Water and sanitation practitioners have begun to tap the potential of these phones as tools to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)...Read more
Global Water Governance in the 21st Century
Published:
July 24, 2013Pacific Institute
This report examines structures and approaches needed to meet the challenge of sustainable water management in an interconnected world.Read more
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