'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

'Participatory monitoring is a powerful tool to prevent and solve conflicts. This advisory note on water monitoring provides hands-on guidance for implementing successful participatory monitoring programs. The report provides examples of practical models to achieve participation in different environmental, financial and governance contexts.'

Source: Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman

'Water probably is not the first thing that comes to mind in thinking about making cars and trucks move. Until, that is, one looks at the amount of water needed to refine oil, produce biofuels, or cool power plants that will be needed to meet the demand for electricity as more electric vehicles hit the roads.

That's what Carey King and Michael Webber have done. The bottom line, according to the University of Texas researchers: As the United States tries to end what President Bush once referre more...

If certain challenges can be overcome, wave power could be a major clean energy source for the half of the world's population.

This paper provides an assessment of information flows and the acquisition of knowledge in water governance of the Upper East Region, Ghana. These flows are patchy, often parallel, disconnected, or slow. In many cases a great deal of information is gathered but for a number of reasons not transferred into knowledge that impacts decision making and action. An analysis of knowledge flows can serve as guidance for research projects and capacity building endeavours to allow tackling the gap between more...

Without clean water, there can be no development. Since the Central Asian states are unable to provide clean water to rural inhabitants of the densely populated Fergana Valley, many of the ten million people living in this poor region suffer from waterborne diseases. An SDC-funded project seeks to show villagers how to solve their problems on their own.

'The Global Corruption Report 2008 examines the link between corruption and the water sector in a comprehensive manner. It documents a wide range of corruption risks in different areas of the sector, from water resources management and water for sanitation to irrigation and hydropower.'
Source: Transparency International

'A summary of WaterAid’s report reviewing the origins, performance and demise of the Government of Tanzania’s short-lived experiment where it leased Dar es Salaam’s water infrastructure to City Water Services Ltd.'

'During the past several decades, the demands placed on Mexico's water resources increased dramatically largely due to rapid population growth. Although these regions came to account for close to 90 percent of gross domestic product and over three-quarters of the population, they received less than a third of total runoff. This made these areas extremely vulnerable to major surface and groundwater shortages, with profound implications for further economic development. In the early 1990s, the Gov more...

By Alan Roe. This paper synthesises the preliminary findings, conclusions and recommendations emerging from the first year of AREU’s thematic study on water, opium and livestock in Afghanistan. It examines irrigation methods and water management systems, and draws linkages between water availability, livestock production and opium cultivation.