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
When Legionnaire's Disease Strikes, City Turns to Xylem for Water Disinfection
Xylem, Inc.
The quick installation of a Xylem ultraviolet system is helping Warstein, Germany combat an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease caused by bacteria in the municipal wastewater treatment plant.Read more
iDE's Sanitation Marketing
iDE
This provides a brief overview of iDE's innovative, market-based approach to safe water and sanitation access in rural areas.Read more
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GlobalWater, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) At iDE
iDE
This provides a brief overview of iDE's fifteen years of WASH experience and the approaches iDE has taken to be successful in implementing WASH projects.Read more
WaterMatch
CH2M HILL
WaterMatch is a goodwill grassroots initiative to promote the beneficial reuse of municipal effluent by industrial and agricultural users. Water users can locate municipal wastewater treatment plants in their area. Municipal wastewater organizations can provide information in their profile.Read more
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GlobalWater Tools for Business
CH2M HILL
CH2M HILL has worked with global business organizations and companies to develop the world’s leading water tools that help individual companies across sectors identify their most significant water-related risks both globally and locally and the steps they should take to cost-effectively manage risk...Read more
Value of Water Coalition
CH2M HILL
CH2M HILL joined other leading organizations from the water sector as a member of the Value of Water Coalition which is working to inform Americans about the value of water and the challenges facing our nation’s water infrastructure. Read more
ISIS Flood Risk Management Tool
CH2M HILL
ISIS, developed by CH2M HILL, provides users with a flexible and cost-effective range of tools to help understand and manage the challenges associated with flood risk. Read more
Impacts of Climate-Related Hazardous Events on Drinking Water and Sanitation Coverage: Determining Vulnerability and Preparedness
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Climate change is projected to alter the global hydrologic cycle, causing increasing intensification and variability in precipitation. These changes will adversely impact water and sanitation coverage. The severity of these climate-related hazardous events on drinking water and sanitation systems...Read more
Water and Sanitation Markets in the Pacific: Understanding Demand and Fostering Sustainable WASH Marketplaces
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Sanitation marketing has been identified as a promising approach for increasing access to adequate sanitation. However, it is unclear if sanitation marketing offers a coherent framework that can transform the WASH sector in the Pacific into a sustainable, demand-driven market. Further, access to...Read more
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East Asia and PacificNASA Water Resources
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The NASA Applied Sciences Program has the primary responsibility to apply data from NASA satellite missions to models in order to help solve problems important to society and the economy. The NASA Water Resources theme in the Applied Sciences Program addresses concerns and decision processes that...Read more
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