We're sharing our WASHCost data on the full costs of providing water and sanitation services over their entire service life-cycle from construction to operation, rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. Detailed studies established these costs and examined how these costs relate to the level of... Read more...
Rural pipe water schemes, popularly known as small town water schemes, are associated with a wide range of capital expenditure and a limited understanding of what could be the key cost drivers of these systems. This briefing note, No. 11, focuses on identifying some of the major cost drivers of... Read more...
This report was generated from a study into the cost of water and sanitation services received by the inhabitants in Kito in the East Gonja District of the Northern region of Ghana. Read more...
Rural pipe water schemes, popularly known as small town water schemes, are associated with a wide range of capital expenditure and a limited understanding of what could be the key cost drivers of these systems. Read more...
This paper concludes that there is chronic underfunding of rural water services, to meet the costs required to provide and sustain a basic level of... Read more...
Vera van der Grift, IRC Information Officer gives examples of how the life-cycle costs approach has been taken up by global level actors. From international donors to regional lending banks, WASH sector actors are thinking about the importance of financing asset management and capital replacement... Read more...