Water & Sanitation

EU intervention in water and sanitation covers basic infrastructure, support to water and sanitation policy development, capacity building and integrated water resource management. This topic covers a wide range of issues relevant to the sector, such as water and climate change, integrated water resource management, river basins development, sector policies, financing water and sanitation and other challenges.

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Basic drinking water supply - Basic Sanitation - Education and training in water supply and sanitation - Infrastructure for Watershed and basins management - Integrated Water Resource Management - Irrigation & agro hydro infrastructures - Sanitation - large systems - Supply and sanitation - Transboundary water management - WASH - Waste management - Water basins management - Water conservation - Water geopolitics - Water information - Water policies - Water scarcity - Water supply - large systems

Video of a WASH project financed by the ACP-EU Water Facility - Angola

Antoine SAINTRAINT posted Information | 18 December 2014

This video was presented at the DEVCO Communication award in 2013.

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ECHO WASH Policy

Antoine SAINTRAINT posted Information | 17 December 2014

I just uploaded the last ECHO WASH Policy. Here is the link: http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/public-water_and_sanitation/document/dg-echo-thematic-policy-document-n%C2%B0-2-water-sanitation-and-hygiene For the people involved in the WASH sector, this can be quite useful.

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DG ECHO Thematic Policy Document n° 2 - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Antoine SAINTRAINT uploaded a new Document | 17 December 2014

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WASH stands for Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and is one of the three main sectors of humanitarian operations (the others being food and health). Climate change has a growing and significant impact on WASH among vulnerable people. Humanitarian aid alone will not be able to continue to address the...

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Arnaud DE VANSSAY commented on information | 16 December 2014

European Toilet Day

Yes these are basic things that we too often forget in our cooperation... Please share and recommend ! Best, Arnaud

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Water as a driving force to eradicate extreme poverty

Veronica Girardi posted Information | 15 December 2014

During the keynote session of the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2014, Hans Rosling - Professor International Health, Karolinska Institute and Chairman, Gapminder Foundation - delivered a fact-based worldview of humanity, underlying how water and sanitation represent the driving force...

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Antoine SAINTRAINT commented on information | 15 December 2014

European Toilet Day

excellent! Do not hesitate to comment on Commissioner Mimica blog, if you think that Sanitation is important for human dignity!

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European Toilet Day

Veronica Girardi posted Information | 12 December 2014

A lunch-debate took place on 19/11 in the European Parliament at the occasion of World Toilet Day. Hosted by MEP Catherine Bearder, it started with a video message from UN Deputy SG Jan Eliasson, calling on the EU to reinforce its efforts to achieve the sanitation goal. The sanitation MDG is the...

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European Toilet Declaration

Veronica Girardi uploaded a new Document | 12 December 2014

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Laura Giappichelli commented on information | 3 December 2014

WASH and Climate Resilient Development (CRD)

Dear Peter, Thanks for your questions. The work of integrating Climate Resilient Development (CRD) into WASH strategic planning and sector management falls within this group's scope. We can use the tag #WASHCRD for the conversations related to this subject. I don't have resources at the moment on...

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Peter J. Bury commented on information | 12 November 2014

WASH and Climate Resilient Development (CRD)

Dear reader, maybe to add a bit on what I'm asking in my first post, here the text I'm sending around to people in my wider network with an interest in the WASH sector: --- I'm trying to understand whether any (developing) country's WASH sector is explicitly working on making the WASH sector (...

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