Girmachew Addisu Lijalem has joined IRC Ethiopia team as a Monitoring and Learning Advisor and Local Facilitator for the Sustainable WASH Program (SWP). He has more than 14 years of experience as instructor at a university, as a hydrologist / engineer at Construction Enterprises, as researcher, as senior irrigation-drainage monitoring specialist and as resident project leader for IWRM projects at a Basin Authority. Girmachew has a B.Sc degree in soil and water engineering and M.Sc degree in Hydraulics engineering from Bahir Dar University.
The results of an ongoing comparative study of different pre-treatment alternatives based on two stages of roughing filtration are presented. Read more...
The effects of water quantity and sanitation, alone and in combination with each other, on infant weight and length gain were examined. Read more...
Community-based studies of diarrhoea etiology and epidemiology were carried out from July 1982 - June 1984 in 153 infants living in a poor peri-urban... Read more...
The development of small-scale water resources is crucial for rural agricultural areas in developing countries which are not reached by irrigation... Read more...
Although the Afridev handpump is produced in several developing countries, the quality is not always reliable. Read more...
Many of the worst features of urban poverty in the Third World are environmental: poor access to safe water, unsanitary conditions, smoky kitchens,... Read more...
Reprint of the first issue of the journal "Focus on Gender" containing a collection of previously published articles dealing with women's... Read more...
This article develops a model of cost and financing strategies for rural and peri-urban water supply and sanitation. Read more...
This document is on the selection, design, operation and maintenance of different pre-treatment alternatives all using coarse media filtration... Read more...
This report documents the development of a set of water supply and sanitation related urban environmental health indicators that would assist... Read more...
This report documents the situation of water supply and sanitation services in seven countries of Central America. Additionally it analyses ongoing... Read more...