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

Guidelines for Maintenance Management in Water and Sanitation Utilities in Developing Countries

Publication date:
June 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
A maintenance management system is not a set of technical procedures for improving maintenance performance, but a means of ensuring that the correct activities are scheduled and performed at the right time and in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This manual presents guidelines for developing...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Irrigation Development in Africa: Lessons of Experience

Publication date:
January 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper describes a significant subset of the African irrigation experience, from traditional flood recession systems to large projects like Gezira (Sudan) and Bura (Kenya). The authors analyze the key technical, socio-economic and institutional factions that have helped fashion success or...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Fisheries Stock Assessment: a Search for New Methods in Fisheries Stock Assessment

Publication date:
January 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
Small scale fisheries are an important source of food and employment in many coastal regions of the world, and represent a significant source of protein for domestic consumption in developing countries. Fisheries stock assessment techniques employed by third world countries often do not provide...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Training Resource Book on a Participatory Method for Modeling Bio Resource Flows

Publication date:
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
This training resource book was developed for people working with farmers in farming systems research and extension. It deals specifically with a farmer-participatory method for constructing pictorial models. The model, in this case, concerns bio resource flows between aquaculture and agriculture...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States

A Bibliography of the Pearl Oysters

Publication date:
January 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
The culture of pearl oysters, once the closely guarded monopoly of the Japanese, has now proliferated throughout the Indo-Pacific region and has the potential of providing much-needed export income to cash-poor nations. This has already happened in French Polynesia, where the culture of Pinctada...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States

Second Quarterly Activities Report on Irrigation Research

Publication date:
February 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
After a contentious start brought about primarily by the reduced level of funding available vis-?-vis the expectations of the participating institutions, the implementation of the Cooperative Agreement has gained momentum during the quarter (December 1991 to February 1992) being reported. Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

Crafting Institutions: Self-Governing Irrigation Systems

Publication date:
January 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report outlines an approach to the design of irrigation institutions that is useful to officials in donor agencies, host governments, and other organizations involved in designing irrigation projects in developing countries. The crafting of irrigation institutions is an ongoing process that...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States