Remember the line in the 60s song by Paul Simon about how a “man sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest”? There was quite a lot of that in last week’s (somewhat macho) Stockholm trade fair and congress centre, during World Water Week 2011 – an event so well-practised that it induced [...]
Our Wednesday briefing, from 10:00 to 11:00 in room M.19, is on the 300in6 Yearbook and state-of-the-art review on progress worldwide in scaling up access to safe water, through household and community water treatment and safe storage. This hands-on session will include practitioners and support agencies in HCWTS. It will introduce a concept which we [...]
Our three extra meetings at Stockhom Water Week: 1. Tuesday, from 14:30 to 15:30, Room M.19 Finance models A special meeting for finance specialists (including from development partners) interested in the specific potential for smart financing approaches for, or within, booster platforms for upscaling access to safe water. 2. Wednesday, 10:00 to 11:00 Help to [...]
In response to partner feedback, and after analysing the flows of participants to and at events, we wish to be more accessible to more of our peers who could work with us on the many facets of scaling-up strategies for safe water in non-piped contexts. Our new format allows more one-on-ones, and cluster meetings, using [...]
Our colleagues at the International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED), an environmental establishment thinktank, have published a worthy briefing on urban backyard wells, used by 30% of the urban poor. Entitled ‘Urban wells: a vital but ignored resource’, IIED says that this briefing reflects on an IIED project on water resource management. It [...]
By popular demand, our primer on the scaling-up potentials of water treatment technologies is now in a clearer format. The concise reader examines how an elusive development paradigm – safe water – is being achieved and can be scaled up in a market-based approach. Its 10 fascinating case studies show just how far promise and [...]
Now armed with the explanatory ‘Scaling up access to safe water’ to our name, and with much-boosted funding from official Swiss and Dutch sources, the 300in6 Initiative will be much in evidence at World Water Week. Our overall goal throughout the week is to share with our peers the widest possible range of experience and [...]