IRC Uganda and its partners supported and participated in the series of Uganda Water and Environment Week 2021 activities in Kabarole to raise awareness about the sustainable use of water resources. Read more...
The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) provided funding under the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) for Millennium Water Alliance Ethiopia Programme (MWA-EP) partners to 'deepen' their water, sanitation and hygiene interventions. The extra support was used to experiment with new interventions to... Read more...
Analysing the outcome of applying guidelines for multiple-use water services in the area MAMCEPAZ area of Honduras. Read more...
30 and 31 March 2015 IRC will host the Multiple Use water Services Group meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands. The goal of the meeting is to identify the potential contributions of a MUS perspective to the water resource management and water tenure debates, in particular ongoing global efforts to... Read more...
Multiple-use services can be scaled up, through a stronger focus on accountability towards users' needs Read more...
A diesel or electrically-powered pump provides a step up the technology ladder for rural households with a family well. The main reason for investing is often to irrigate crops, but the water uses and benefits are multiple. Read more...
Sand dams can provide sufficient water for domestic and productive uses even in some very dry environments. But the implementation and scaling-up challenges should not be overlooked. Read more...
On the 4 th of April, a conference on “Improving Resilience Building Water Strategies in Arid Lands” has gathered about 100 participants in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference aimed at sharing experiences of the Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction (KALDRR) WASH program with experts of the WASH and... Read more...
Working with the Ethiopian government and partners to deliver universal access to WASH services. Read more...
A MUStRAIN case study looking at how family wells can be upgraded and improved. Read more...
This MUStRAIN case study examines whether giving communities a greater say in the design of their water supply systems leads to a different mix of uses. Read more...
A MUStRAIN case study on greywater reuse in keyhole and vertical gardens in Ethiopia. Read more...
A MUStRAIN case study on manual well-drilling. Read more...
MUStRAIN case study on addressing livestock needs together with other water uses. Read more...
This case study focuses on the less documented faecal sludge reuse interventions in Ethiopia: Arborloo and Fossa Alterna, as implemented in East Arsi and Eastern Hararghe, in the Central Rift Valley, and in Arba Minch. The case study is part of the MUStRAIN case study series in which the uptake of... Read more...
On 26 June, over twenty representatives from Dutch government, NGOs and private sector organisations participated in a seminar in The Hague, to share their experiences on MUS. Read more...
IRC's Marieke Adank kicked off the seminar, bringing together 23 participants from 17 different organisations with a short video to get everyone up to speed on the concept of MUS, and with an outline on the backgorund and the objectives of the event: to share, to collaborate and to develop joint... Read more...
One of the objectives of the MUStRAIN project is to increase the awareness and stimulate mutual learning and exchange among stakeholders concerning Multiple Use water Services (including rain water harvesting and Self Supply). Read more...
The concept of Multiple Use water Services (MUS) is gaining more and more recognition globally. Multiple use water services take people’s multiple water demands as the starting point for the provision of water services. Read more...
The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) and its partners have launched the Replenish Africa Initiative's (RAIN) Multiple Use Water Improvements project in Ethiopia. This one-year project will benefit 73,400 rural citizens, including 22,000 school children living in seven rural woredas (districts)... Read more...