Water, Sanitation, Hygiene

According to the Centers for Disease Control, global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. However, many countries are challenged to provide these basic necessities to their populations, leaving people at risk for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related diseases. Resources available within this theme offer information on providing access to safe water and appropriate sanitation facilities, and introducing sound hygiene behaviors.

Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Resources

Economic Benefits Available from the Provision of Improved Potable Water Supplies: A Review and Assessment of the Existing Evidence

Published: 
December 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
While billions of dollars are invested every year in water projects in developing countries, only rarely are these investments subjected to serious economic analysis, mainly because many professionals doubt that the economic benefits of new water supplies can be determined with sufficient accuracy...Read more

Project Monitoring Report 1991-92: Water and Sanitation for Health and Ecuadorian Development (WASHED)

Published: 
November 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report reviews the progress made from July 1991 to mid-September 1992 in the Water and Sanitation for Health and Ecuadorian Development (WASHED) Project, a joint effort of USAID/Ecuador and the Ecuadorian Institute for Sanitary Works (IEOS). It documents the activities to involve project staff...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

PRE/CAP: Prefeasibility Studies in East and Southern Africa, Phase I Report

Published: 
October 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
In late 1991, the Regional Economic Development Services Office, East and Southern Africa (REDSO/ESA) began an initiative to identify capital projects in the water and sanitation (W&S) sector, among other, and to suggest possible uses for a special appropriation of $650 million under study by...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Sustainability Assessment for the Benin Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project

Published: 
August 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The sustainability of the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project, scheduled for completion 9/92, is assessed. The project has successfully constructed wells and demonstration latrines; provided training to village health committees, government extension workers, and pump repair workers; and...Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

Project Assistance Completion Report: Benin Rural Water Supply

Published: 
August 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
PACR of a multidonor project, implemented in coordination with UNICEF and the Peace Corps, to improve water supply and sanitation in the Zou department in northern Benin. The report covers the period 8/80-9/92, including a 4-year suspension from 12/81-12/85. The project was a success. Reliable...Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

Rethinking Sanitation: Adding Behavioral Change to The Project Mix

Published: 
July 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
All too often, water and sanitation projects focus on new facilities to the neglect of sanitation and hygiene behaviors. This study makes a case for letting the determination of what behavioral sanitation changes may reasonably be introduced within the cultural and religious milieu of the target...Read more

Country Program Strategy, FY 1992-1996: Water and Wastewater

Published: 
May 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The importance of potable water and sanitary drainage to the Egyptian economy and quality of life can not be overstated. the Nile is the source of 80 percent of Egyptian drinking water and it is to the Nile that the wastewater effluent eventually drains. Pollutants in this closed system have...Read more
Regional focus: 
Egypt, Arab Rep.Middle East and North Africa

Assessment of Interagency Collaboration in the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project and Its Guinea Worm Reduction Component

Published: 
May 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The joint-agency Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project successfully provided the northern Zou Province with 281 positive wells in villages that received training for social mobilization, pump maintenance and intensive health education.Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

WEC Trip Report to Sophia, Bulgaria: Review of Sanitation Operations

Published: 
May 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
Between May 17 through May 24,1992, members of the New York City Department of Sanitation (DOS) visited the city of Sofia, Bulgaria, on an activity sponsored by the World Environment Center. The purpose of the trip was to assess and make recommendations for improvements on the municipal solid...Read more
Regional focus: 
BulgariaEurope and Central Asia

Trip Report to Prague Municipal Sanitation Company

Published: 
May 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
In November 1991, a team of four officials from New York City's Department of Sanitation visited Prague, Czechoslovakia to review its municipal waste disposal system. The mission from New York made a set of proposal based on its experience, that the Czech may consider as they move forward to...Read more
Regional focus: 
Czech RepublicEurope and Central Asia

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