Learning Repository

Portable Solar Pumps

Technology

With the affordable portable solar pump, farmers can still grow crops during the 6-month dry season and thus ensure that everyone in their area has food.

The pieces of land where farmers in Zambia grow their vegetables are often quite a distance from the homes, close to a river or stream or a place where the groundwater is not deep. To accommodate these farmers, Jacana has developed a portable solar pump. The system consists of two solar panels and a pump that can be put in a river, open well or stream. It comes with a hose pipe and the total weight is approximately 15kg. This makes it possible for farmers to take the pump to the field in the morning and store it safely in the house in the evening.

In addition, the pump including panels and pipe currently costs less than USD 185 (at this moment (2024), that includes transport and profit for the distributor and local shops). An average farmer can pay for this with the proceeds of one harvest. See: www.portablesolarpumps.com

Privatisation of Sanitation and Sewerage Services - Lessons Learnt from the Philippines

Publication

This policy brief re-examines the challenges and constraints facing the Philippines, mostly in the Metro Manila region, in domestic wastewater and septage management, including expansion of the sewerage network and wastewater treatment ratio. This brief also provides good lessons learnt for water professionals and policymakers in the water supply and sanitation sector – not only in other cities and municipalities of the Philippines but also in other Southeast Asian countries – on how decentralised approaches as well as privatisation policy have greatly assisted in improved wastewater and septage management in the Philippines.

REACH Rural Water Finance

Technology

Results-based funding to deliver safe and reliable drinking water; a case study with the Government of Bangladesh under the SafePani model for schools and health clinics.

REACH Safe Water in Africa and Asia

Technology

Professionalized service provision to deliver safe drinking water for rural communities, schools and healthcare facilities.

Resilience and Decarbonization: Capacity Building and Roadmap Preparation for Water Utilities

Training

Resilient Rivers Hub

Tool

The Resilient Rivers Hub provides a global platform for the exchange of river resilience knowledge and experience. It includes a Blueprint for River Resilience, RiverAcademy, 1000+ Resilient Rivers and various tools and case studies.

RisKma

Technology

RisKma is a cloud-based OS that enables disaster information aggregation, flood forecasting/early warning, and disaster prevention action support

River Image Analysis for Debris Transport (RIAD)

Technology

RIAD is a monitoring technology for grasping transport amount of floating debris on riverine surface which can distinguish natural and anthropogenic debris

Sand engines

Technology

Tackling erosion pits by using a sand engine in one of the river branches of the Rhine-Meuse Delta by periodical nourishment of dredged sand in deep scour holes

Sanitation 21

Tool

Sanitation 21 presents a planning framework for improving city-wide inclusive sanitation services based on international best practices. Initially developed in 2006, this updated version builds on recent experiences where good planning has formed an integral part of achieving improvements in urban sanitation. The document sets out key principles and process guidelines to help city stakeholders develop appropriate and affordable solutions to sanitation problems, taking into account technology issues, management arrangements, institutional challenges and demands for improvement from different stakeholders.