'The Garbage Book presents the solid waste crisis in Metro Manila. It is aimed at raising awareness of issues in the sector, and outlines potential solutions to address the problem.
This book won the Bronze Anvil Award, the overall public relations tools award given by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines during its 40th Anvil Awards in 2005.'
Source: ADB

'For 150 years India has made major investments in large-scale water infrastructure, bringing water to areas that previously lacked it. The results have been spectacular, both nationally, through the production of food grains and electricity, and regionally, as projects have generated direct and indirect economic benefits. Once-arid areas have become centers of economic growth, while historically well-watered areas have seen slower progress. The poor have benefited greatly from such investments. more...

The Yamuna catchment area of the National Capital Territory is one per cent of the river's total catchment area but it generates more than 50% of the pollutants found in the Yamuna. The crucial stretch is a mere 22-km-long portion of its 1200 kilometre journey. Waste water with little or no oxygen flows through this stretch. TERI studies say that more than 70% of the 84 districts that make up the Delhi sub-basin, are water-stressed due to depletion and degradation of quality of ground and surfac more...

'Jordan is a chronically water-scarce country, and less than five per cent of the land is arable. For farmers, little or no rainfall means severely reduced cultivation and production – and increased hunger and poverty. Those who find other ways to supplement their incomes generally earn very little. To address these challenges, an IFAD-supported project provided farmers with technical and financial assistance to promote soil and water conservation and boost agricultural production. It also hel more...

'This report develops an integrated economic-hydrologic river basin model and applies it to the Maipo River Basin in central Chile. Policy simulations based on the modeling framework can serve as a guide for water resource managers and policymakers in designing appropriate water policies and establishing reform priorities for water resource allocation. Alternative analyses undertaken for the Maipo basin—a mature water economy with limited resources and competition for water across all water-us more...

'The upper Blue Nile basin harbors considerable untapped potential for irrigation and hydropower development and expansion in Ethiopia. Numerous hydrologic models have been developed to assess hydropower and agricultural irrigation potential within the basin, yet often fail to adequately address critical aspects, including the transient stages of large-scale reservoirs, relevant flow retention policies and associated downstream ramifications, and the implications of stochastic modeling of variab more...

'The Mekong Delta Water Resources project sought to rehabilitate water control infrastructure- salinity intrusion, irrigation, drainage, flood protection and rural drinking water supply - in 5 subproject areas covering more than 500,000 ha, to enhance productivity of the agricultural sector and increase rural incomes.
Engineering plans were modified during project implementation to introduce greater flexibility in the operation of sluice gates and allow a shift in land use from rice to cash cro more...

'We all know that ageing and decaying is a natural process but like with life we need to take all steps to slow the ageing process, maintain these dams reservoirs.  Otherwise this vital national assets would not only lose its ability gradually to serve the people of this country but also can be potentially life threatening to you, the very same people that it is supposed to serve,' says Ms Naoko Ishii, World Bank country Director, Sri Lanka at the launch of the 'Dam Safety and Water Resources P more...

'The Bhakra Nangal dam project is accorded
overwhelming credit for rescuing India from hunger and famine, for making India self-sufficient in foodgrains production, for the prosperity of the states of Punjab and
Haryana. Shripad Dharmadhikary
argues that the contribution of the project has been highly exaggerated, and the agricultural growth is based on the highly unsustainable use of surface and ground water and soil
resources of the states.'

Mauritania is not new to food crises; in the last few years it has suffered from drought and swarms of locusts that have ravaged people’s cereal harvests. It is a land where water is scarce and where people suffer from chronic poverty.

In its latest emergency response, Oxfam worked to make the connection between emergency food aid, and disaster preparedness. We supported communities to develop ‘fallbacks’ through the formation of Cereal Banks and by encouraging community-level vegetable more...