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After decades of conflict, Cambodian water planners are struggling to provide supplies to urban residents. Many households do not use water from a network connection. Instead they rely on dirty and unreliable sources. Getting poor householders connected is unlikely without subsidies and regulatory... Read more...
The Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) has transformed sewage systems in low income, informal settlements ('katchi abadi'), where 60 percent of Karachi's population lives. OPP has challenged development approaches, which are very technical and overly-dependent on government and donor support. Such... Read more...
The residents of Sudhamnagar, a slum community in Bangalore, made the big leap from defecating in the open until 2007 to having household latrines in 2009, proving that once people understand what they're missing, they will find ways to get it. Read more...
An estimated 20-30% of funds and materials are diverted from sanitation programmes in South India due to corruption, experts have estimated. The Socio-Economic Unit Foundation (SEUF) has successfully employed a number of anti-corruption strategies in a participatory and community-based household... Read more...
In 1998, the Government of Armenia began to seriously weigh a private sector solution to the worsening situation with the water supply system in the country's capital, Yerevan. Read more...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has had more than 3 decades of partnership experience in supporting the development of water supply services in Metropolitan (Metro) Manila. During this period, ADB provided nine loans (worth US$ 425.3 million) and seven technical assistance (TA) grants (worth US$ 3... Read more...
In October 1999, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project to sustain improvements in environmental health and the quality of life for the urban communities in small towns. The Executing Agency was the Department of Housing and Urban Planning (DHUP) of... Read more...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has adopted twinning as part of its Water Operators' Partnership (WOPs) Program. The WOPs program promotes knowledge sharing and builds the capacity of water operators and utilities in the Asia and the Pacific region. Among its key initiatives is the twinning of 20... Read more...
A project supported by the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) is piloting a project providing safe drinking water to 12,500 poor households in 25 villages in three coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh: Guntur, Krishna, and West Godavari. Read more...
To improve customer service, Sri Lanka's National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) introduced a customer charter and quality circles. Read more...
