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

Project Assistance Completion Project Report: USAID/Guatemala: Water, Women and Health, CARE Water Supply Project 520-0336

Publication date:
January 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
PACR of a grant (3/85-12/92) to CARE to improve health conditions for rural populations in Guatemala through the construction and maintenance of water systems (the project targeted women, the primary caretakers of water systems). The project was successful and encouraging. It met its targets in...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Guatemala
Latin America and the Caribbean

Management Turnover of a Pump Irrigation System in The Philippines: The Farmer'S Way

Publication date:
January 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Philippines' National Irrigation Administration (NIA) of the Philippines has piloted and implemented several approaches to organizing farmers to undertake management responsibilities for the operation and maintenance (O&M) of irrigation systems. in 1983, NIA piloted a new approach...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Philippines
East Asia and Pacific

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

Publication date:
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)

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Ecuador
Latin America and the Caribbean

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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

Sustainability Assessment for the Benin Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Benin
Sub-Saharan Africa

Project Assistance Completion Report: Benin Rural Water Supply

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Benin
Sub-Saharan Africa

Rethinking Sanitation: Adding Behavioral Change to The Project Mix

Publication date:
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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Middle East and North Africa

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