This year the rains started in March and in June the water ponds still have water in them. Mwende is happy because now she only has to walk ten minutes to fetch water for her family. 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...
This meeting at the Netherlands Embassy in Addis was a very special one, for a number of reasons. 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...
In a new project, three Millennium Water Alliance partners will use additional funding from the The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation to deepen their existing interventions. 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...
Two weeks ago, the “management and support” working group of the RWSN had its first meeting. This meeting focused specifically on management models and support arrangements for piped water supply in small towns. Read more...
Various case studies confirm that multiple-use of water is a common practice in rural communities in Honduras. IRC and FHIS developed a guideline to support consideration for these uses in the design and management of rural water supplies. This guideline was applied in a number of communities in... Read more...
Experiences with multiple use of water in Kerala in India. Read more...
Based on a growing number of MUS initiatives and increased knowledge and experience on how to do MUS, MUSGroup members have synthesized existing guidelines into a generic set of guidelines for planning and providing multiple use water services. Read more...
The department of La Paz is located two hours from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. La Paz is a region famous for the coffee export, cold climate and abundant water. There are four projects implemented using the Multiple Use Water Services (MUS) approach by FHIS, the Honduran Social Investment Fund, with... Read more...
The relationship between multiple use of water and sustainability in service provision is still a thorny issue. Read more...
A question from the floor at a Rockefeller Foundation meeting raised some interesting thoughts about MUS vs MDGs. Read more...
Guía para ingenieros, técnicos y otros profesionales del sector, responsable para o participando en la planificación e implementación de sistemas de... Read more...
In Honduras, the theme of MUS has been promoted throughout a series of workshops by IRC in collaboration with the Honduran network for water and sanitation RAS-HON. This in the end has led to the formation of a thematic group which is being hosted by the resource centre of RAS-HON. One of the first... Read more...
