U.S. Domestic Resources

Welcome to the H2infO U.S. Domestic Resources Page. On this page you will find U.S. Water Partnership member resources aimed at helping domestic stakeholders address the unique water challenges of the United States.

U.S. Domestic Resources

Water for the World: Constructing Sewer Systems

U.S. Agency for International Development
A sewer system is a network of underground pipes that carries sewage by gravity flow from a number of dwellings. This technical note describes the elements involved in constructing a sewer system.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

USAID Water and Development Strategy, 2013-2018

Foundation Center
U.S. Agency for International Development
The first global Water and Development Strategy outlines the approach that will guide USAID's water programming through 2018. The Strategy emphasizes sustainability, working through host country systems, using emerging science and technology, and learning from past efforts.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Water and Development Strategy: Implementation Field Guide

Foundation Center
U.S. Agency for International Development
This periodically updated document is intended to serve as a reference tool to help USAID Operating Units understand and apply the agency's 2013-2018 Water and Development Strategy. By publicly sharing the document, USAID aims to ensure coordination of their efforts with the wider water sector.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Water for the World: Designing Sewer Systems

U.S. Agency for International Development
A sewer system is a network of underground pipes that carries sewage by gravity flow from a number of dwellings. This technical note describes the elements involved in designing a sewer system. It does not attempt to explain everything needed to design a sewer system.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Water for the World: Operating and Maintaining Sewer Systems

U.S. Agency for International Development
A sewer system is a self-operating network of underground pipes that carries sewage by gravity flow from a number of dwellings. It flows to a stabilization pond or other central treatment facility. This technical note describes the elements involved in maintaining a sewer system.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

O&M Costs in Irrigation: Reappearing Government and Farmer Responsibilities and Rights

U.S. Agency for International Development
The amount of money governments spend on irrigation development continues to be a matter of major policy concern, the more so as "the fiscal crisis" constraints governments not only in the developing world but in the U.S. as well. A discussion of the state of the art in this policy area...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

The Forgotten Sector: Arizona Water Law and the Environment

The National Institutes for Water Resources
This paper examines the extent to which environmental water needs, especially the needs of riparian habitats, have both been recognized and neglected in Arizona water law. Arizona manages surface water and groundwater under two different legal regimes, which ultimately lets environmental water fall...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Determinants of Environmental Noncompliance By Public Water Systems

The National Institutes for Water Resources
Whereas a large number of empirical studies have been devoted to analyzing determinants of environmental compliance (EC) by firms, less attention has been paid to EC by public water systems (PWS). To address this gap in the literature, this article uses data on compliance with maximum contaminant...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Water Conservation, Yesterday and Today: a Story of History, Culture and Politics

The National Institutes for Water Resources
Recently very much center stage and in the spotlight, water conservation seems to be an idea whose time has come. If, however, we define water conservation as the careful use of water to better maintain current supplies, then water conservation is not a recent development. What is relatively new is...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Microbes Increasingly Viewed as Water Quality Threat

The National Institutes for Water Resources
Many U.S. citizens believe that thanks to our advanced technology and enlightened public policy we can consume without risk the food and water that are readily available to most of us, as citizens of a rich and privileged country. Some of those who subscribe to this buoyant and comforting attitude...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America