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Bridge the Urban-Rural Water Gap Through Infrastructure and Microfinance
Despite decades of progress, a sharp disparity remains between urban and rural access to safe water in Asia and the Pacific. Targeted investment, innovative technologies, and microfinance are needed.
Adapting to a Thirsty Future: Sustainable Water Solutions for Georgia’s Agriculture
Georgia’s water security is under threat from shifting seasonal availability, droughts, floods, and an ageing and inefficient irrigation system. Strengthening water management, modernizing storage, and investing in agriculture are key to sustaining rural livelihoods and food security.
Hold the Salt: Harnessing Desalination for Water Security
Desalination offers a viable solution to water scarcity in the Pacific, but its success depends on careful planning, energy efficiency, and environmental considerations. Integrating renewable energy, engaging communities, and ensuring sustainable brine disposal are key to long-term viability.
Four Steps to Cleaner Water and Better Sanitation in Vanuatu and Beyond
There are many guides, standards and regulations for national water, sanitation and hygiene policies. To see policy impact on the ground and improvements to community water and sanitation, implementation partners need to focus on how they come together.
Four Ways to Manage Rural Solid Waste
Research in Shanxi Province, in the People’s Republic of China, provides insights into how to achieve quality and sustainable management of rural sanitation, wastewater, and solid waste.
Four Strategies for Financing a Clean Water Supply in the Pacific
In the Pacific, governments and their partners must collaborate with utilities to ensure they can sustain their operations financially while delivering accessible, high-quality water services to everyone.
Hindu Kush Himalaya: Climate Change is a Crisis at the Top of the World
The time to act against the changing climate is now, as the investments made today will determine the resilience of the Hindu Kush Himalaya region for generations to come.
More Crops Per Drop: Four Ways Armenia Can Conserve Water Resources Amid a Changing Climate
Armenia faces severe water challenges due to climate change and needs immediate and long-term strategies to safeguard its water resources and ensure sustainable agriculture.
The "Invisible" Water Crisis: Groundwater Sustainability in Asia and The Pacific
Rapid socioeconomic development and population growth are escalating groundwater overexploitation, creating a potential crisis in Asia and the Pacific.
We Need to Help Small Businesses on the Front Lines of Water and Sanitation in Asia
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises play a crucial role across the water and sanitation value chain. They need innovative financing solutions to help millions of people obtain clean water and decent sanitation.