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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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Downscaled CMIP3 and CMIP5 Climate and Hydrology Projections

U.S. Geological Survey
The archive provides climate and hydrologic projections at spatial and temporal scales relevant to some of the watershed and basin-scale decisions facing water and natural resource managers and planners dealing with climate change. Such access permits several types of analyses, including: (1)...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Conserving water during irrigation

Published: 
August 24, 2012
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Wade Rain is using OPIC political risk insurance to support its operations in Mexico, a country with a dry climate that sources all water from ground wells. Wade Rain's Mexican subsidiary sells irrigation equipment - most of it manufactured in the U.S. - to small farms in central Mexico and...Read more

WASH and Freshwater Conservation in Sub Saharan Africa

Published: 
July 31, 2014
Millennium Water AllianceConservation InternationalWinrock International
This webinar explores the question of integrating WASH and freshwater conservation with case studies from Tanzania.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

WASH and Freshwater Conservation in Southeast Asia

Published: 
July 24, 2014
Millennium Water AllianceConservation InternationalU.S. Agency for International Development
This webinar explores the question of integrating WASH and freshwater conservation with a case study on urban groundwater recharge for water supply in Indonesia.Read more
Regional focus: 
East Asia and Pacific

World Vision- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Published: 
February 28, 2013
World Vision
This webinar describes World Vision's, a Christian humanitarian organization, portfolio in water. World Vision sees WAS as fundamental to achieving all the Child Well-being Outcomes.Read more

USGS Water Science School - Questions and Answers

U.S. Geological Survey
A part of the USGS Water Science School, this page provides a series of questions and answers surrounding water. Topics include Water at Home, Water Use, Measuring Water, Water Chemistry and Quality, and the Water Around Us.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

NRD Oral History Project

Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska
A website produced by the Water for Food Global Institute and partners, featuring oral histories about the development of Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts, a unique groundwater management institution based on local governance.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

TOP 5 WAYS COMPETENCIES CAN HELP YOU IMPROVE WASH SECTOR PERFORMANCE

Published: 
May 1, 2017
Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST)
Top 5 ways that competenvces help prmote WASH sector performance. Read more

ASK A RESEARCHER: CONSIDERING WASH IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Published: 
December 1, 2016
Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST)
Article on WASH and Climate change. Read more

A Guide for Establishing a Community-Based Safe Water System Program

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
This resource is intended for public health professionals, community organizations, non-governmental organizations, and others interested in a guide to establish a Community-Based Safe Water System Program Read more
Regional focus: 
Global

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