The October edition of WASH-cost e-Update highlights findings from the application of service delivery and life cycle cost approaches is out. Some of the highlights are:
Service delivery approach:
- Video proceedings now available from World Bank-USAID review
- Water for People’s Everyone Forever approach to water and sanitation
- New resource on monitoring and indicators for water services that last
- “What if...?” – A video presentation on sustainable services at scale
- Join the Triple-S story initiative
Life-cycle cost approach:
- Life-cycle costs of rainwater harvesting systems (Occasional Paper 46)
- Rural water supply costs and service levels in Andhra Pradesh (Briefing note)
- Custo das actividades PEC (Community Participation and Education) -Zonal em Moçambique, (Briefing note in Portuguese)
- Análise PEC Zonal em Moçambique. Custos duma nova abordagem (Poster in Portuguese)
- Summaries of papers to be presented at Rural Water Supply Network Forum in Kampala, Uganda
Country stories:
- WASHCost data put to use to plan services in Mozambique, WASHCost Mozambique
- Cost of sustaining the source- A key element in WASH services, WASHCost India
- The well that keeps on giving, WASHCost Mozambique
14. Triple-S-Ghana launches reports on sustainable rural water supply, Triple-S Ghana
15. Ghana begins process to define national indicators for sustainability, Triple-S Ghana
16. Triple-S forges closer working relationship with the private sector in Ghana, Triple-S Ghana
17. Triple-S dialogues with the media, Triple-S Uganda
- The revival of WASH coordination in Lira district, Triple-S Uganda
- Half a pump is better than none!, Triple-S Uganda
Blogs:
- $25 can’t give someone clean water for life: The real cost of sustainable service, John Sauer & Nick Dickinson
- Water and sanitation: priceless but not costless, Stef Smits
Training and events:
- 6th Rural Water Supply Network Forum, 29-November 2011 to 1-December 2011, Kampala, Uganda
- Introducing the life-cycle cost approach @ RWSN Forum, Friday 2-December 2011
- Learning Event for WASH implementers, 31 January, London
Please visit:http://www.washcost.info/page/1544