How Can Water Utilities in the Pacific Use the Pandemic to Become More Resilient?
Protecting and managing the water supply, even in the face of threats and challenges, is a key responsibility for utility companies and governments across the Pacific region.
How Clean Water and Toilets Affect Women, Girls and Maternal Health
Women are disproportionately affected by water and sanitation issues, including inadequate water supply, lack of sanitation and poor hygiene practices.
How Developing Cities Can Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
Developing countries are well placed to leapfrog directly to water-sensitive cities, rather than follow the organic evolution of urban water infrastructure in developed countries.
How the Nexus Between Water, Food and Energy Can Promote Development
Developing countries should consider the water, food, energy nexus – which addresses the interconnection between the three vital resources – when undertaking development activities.
How to Avert an Urban Drought in Asia
If we don’t act soon, Asia’s cities and huge urban populations will be starved of water in just a few years.
Improving Asia Pacific’s Water Security Demands New Strategies
If Asia and Pacific countries cannot find ways to ensure the availability of adequate and good quality water to sustain the socio-economic achievements in the region, then these advances could be lost.
In Papua New Guinea, Hand Washing Can Be a Challenge in Some Communities
A lack of safe water supply in urban settlements around Asia and the Pacific complicates efforts to use improved hygiene to fight COVID-19
Innovative Technology Brings Access to Clean Water in Rural Vanuatu
A new solar-powered drinking water technology converts sunshine, air, and rain into safe drinking water.
Let’s Talk Incentives: Toilets, Girls, and Violence
Access to household toilets is often seen as just a water and sanitation issue or a public health concern. But the recent murders of two young Indian girls have highlighted another aspect – women’s safety and security.
Light at the End of Nepal’s Melamchi Tunnel
By October 2017, we in Kathmandu will literally feel the snow-fed Melamchi water at our own taps. What a relief that’s going to be.