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Thoughts on Resilience
In a recent LinkedIn comment, Michael Burke, Chairman and CEO of AECOM talked about the importance of thinking about and planning for resilience in every project large or small. What does this mean for development work? We need to be thinking and talking about how to...
Blog post on managing water systems – IRC
Through the USAID SWS Learning Partnership efforts are being made to try different approaches to operations and maintenance. Read this blog post from Ethiopia Country Director John Butterworth.
Toilets in China
China has made toilets a significant priority according to a recent Guardian article.
Trends towards Renewables
Recent articles mark the trend towards renewables: Read about Shell - less of an oil company moving forward. In Australia, "Banks warned of 'regulatory action' as climate change bites global economy". And Canada promises legislation in 2018 to punish carbon polluters.
Wind Energy Gains
Tamil Nadu’s share of renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass and small hydro) in its total energy mix hit 20% in the first five months (April-August) of fiscal 2017, according to a report by research firm Elara Capital. Read article
Upcoming program
November 6 - December 1, 2017 This is a highly-interactive one-month eLearning course on ICT for Water Service Providers and other WASH sector stakeholders. For more information, contact: info@ict4wash.com. More info
Women, Water, Nigeria
Salamatu Garba speaks about the continuing impact of Water and Development Alliance (WADA) a public-private partnership between USAID and Coca-cola and its impact on women in Nigeria in this USAID Global Water...
Evaporation as a major Renewable energy source?
"In the first analysis of using evaporation as renewable energy, Columbia University scientists have found that evaporation-to-power devices on lakes and reservoirs could generate 325 gigawatts of electricity—about 70 percent of current U.S. production."The method...
“Can subsidies & sanitation marketing work together to increase household construction of #toilets? @ThriveNet video” Thanks Improve Int’l for sharing!
https://youtu.be/0kbGbwJkPLc