Recent Activity in Water Community
- Query: Improving concurrent monitoring process in water-sanitation - Experiences, Advice. Reply by 27 January 2012 in Water Community
- Consolidated Reply: Alternative Water and Sanitation Solutions - Experiences, Examples. Issue date 25 November 2011 in Water Community
- Seeks information on the different drinking water and sanitation interventions being promoted in flood prone areas of alluvial regions specifically with Iron, Arsenic and bacteriological contamination in groundwater
- Discussion: Taking a Fresh Approach to Water Security. Reply by 25 November 2011 in Decentralization Community, Water Community
- Seeks suggestions for a water security framework
- Consolidated Reply: Ways to improve flood management in Orissa - Advice, Examples. Issue date 24 November 2011 in Water Community, Disaster Management Community
- Seeks information on the kind of a flood plain zone management which will be of use in today
About the Water Community
The Community’s mission is to bring together practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds on a public and impartial platform to debate and inform policy and programmes on water and sanitation. The Community achieves this through electronic discussions, action research and face-to-face events. It seeks to inform government policy and programmes, assist NGOs and practitioners and provide quality inputs to the sector based on tacit knowledge. It seeks to supplement this tacit knowledge with explicit knowledge where appropriate.
The community
- Reaches out to decision makers/influencers who affect public life, government and the private sector
- Creates public awareness of necessity for safe water, issues of access, management and distribution
- Public awareness about sanitation, and links with health and hygiene
- Seeks to become a reliable and comprehensive source of advice, reference and information on water & sanitation useful to both general public and policy makers
Specialized activities in Water Community
The Community seeks to enhance the impact of tacit or experiential knowledge with evidence-based information through research and knowledge publications. These include research on selected topics and compendia on the major themes of the community.
Water Community Success Stories
- Water security programme based on rainwater havesting, Story in Water Community updated on Dec 26, 2011
