Water
- Water and sanitation for all: the need to go beyond numbers and beyond the MDGs.
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation is clearly a priority in many UN agencies, as reflected in the number of agencies and annual reports on the topic. However, to what extent should these assessments and indicators serve as a basis for donor policies and priorities? While not wanting to critique these efforts and indicators, IDS fellows - Jeremy Allouch and Lyla Mehta argue how enhancing water and sanitation is severely restricted by the definition given by the Millennium Development Goals and its impact on indicators. Official indicators leave out a huge range of local initiatives and alternative ways of improving water and sanitation that fall outside the MDGs.
Latest Additions
- How water management practices must adapt in the Americas
- Water and Climate Change in the Americas, 2012
- This solutions document, a product of the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change Adaptation in the Americas (comprised of 21 different agencies), seeks to address the ways in which w...
- The interlinked nature of water security challenges requires comprehensive solutions coordinated among diverse stakeholders
- D. Waughray (ed) / World Economic Forum, 2011
- Water security links together food, energy, climate, economic growth and human security threats. This publication sets out the challenge the world faces if nothing is done to improve water management ...
- Reefs at Risk Revisted
- L. Burke / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2011
- Like the original Reefs at Risk, this study evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range of human activities. It also includes an assessment of climate-related threats to reefs. In addition, Ree...
- Highlighting the need and potential for adaptation to climate change in African international river basins
- M. Goulden (ed);D. Conway (ed);A. Persechino (ed) / Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 2008
- Africa’s fresh water resources, which are under pressure, are vital to the support of livelihoods, food security and power generation, as well as growing domestic and industrial needs. This pape...
- Water and energy dynamics in the Greater Himalayan region: opportunities for environmental peacebuilding
- M. Renner / Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2011
- The water crisis in the Greater Himalayas constitutes an enormous challenge for the region and a growing, if still under-reported, concern in the West. Elements of the crisis include floods and drough...
- National water mission - vol I
- India Water Portal, 2009
- Draft proposal prepared by the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India. With water scarcity projected to worsen as a result of climate change, the plan sets a goal of a 20% improvement in wat...
- National water mission - vol II
- India Water Portal, 2008
- Draft prepared by the Ministry of Water Resources. It estimates that currently about 83 percent of developed water resources is used by Irrigation sector alone in our country. This may get progressive...
- The impacts of and efforts to address climate change in the fragile ecosystem of Sundarbans
- A. Danda (ed) / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2010
- The eco-region of Sundarbans is unique and fragile because it is one of the most extensive mangrove forests in the world. This report describes the Sundarbans region and the impacts of climate change ...
- Does land cover affect rainfall patterns in southern Africa?
- C.J.R. Williams;D.R. Kniveton / 2011
- The paper presents an investigation on the influence of land cover changes on rainfall variability, and in particular daily rainfall extremes in southern Africa. It examines the effect of increasing t...
- Challenges for the Nile Basin region
- T. Oestigaard (ed) / Nile Basin Research Programme, University of Bergen, 2010
- The Nile Basin Research Programme (NBRP), as a strategic, multidisciplinary programme for research and higher education on topics related to the Nile Basin, has had the overall aim to enhance and prom...
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