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- USAID Global Development Alliance. (2010). Safe Drinking Water Alliance: Experiences in Haiti, Ethiopia, and Pakistan;
Lessons for future water treatment programs. (pdf, 1.51MB).
To address some of the challenges created by lack of access to safe water, in 2004, the United States Agency
for International Development’s (USAID) Global Development Alliance (GDA) brought together Johns Hopkins
Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Population Services International (PSI), CARE USA, and Procter& Gamble (P&G) to create the Safe Drinking Water Alliance (SDWA).
- Environmental health journals and literature resources - Links to key journals, bibliographic databases and literature resources.
- Citations and abstracts of 17 2010 studies on typhoid, handwashing, sanitation and water treatment. (Click on UPDATES)
- Safeguarding the World’s Water: 2008 Report on USAID Water Sector Activities, December 2009. (pdf, 9MB). USAID’s total investments in all aspects of the water sector reached almost $490 million in 2008. USAID provided more than 7 million people with improved water supply, more than 4 million of whom received first-time access to an improved water source.
- Lantagne, D and Clasen T (2009). Point of Use Water Treatment in Emergency
Response. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London, UK. (pdf, 2MB). The objectives of writing this report are to: 1) document the recent experience in PoUWT use in emergency response; and, 2) identify the lessons learned from that experience and develop a set of recommendations to guide operational research on PoUWT in emergencies and identify the most effective deployment.
- 2009 Handwashing Bibliography - An annotated bibliography of 24 handwashing studies published in 2009.
- Indoor Air Pollution Updates - News, research on indoor air pollution issues.
- Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act - June 2009 (pdf, 2.4MB). This report is required by the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005. The Act makes the provision of safe water and sanitation services in developing countries a component of U.S. foreign assistance.
- Sanitation at USAID - View/download USAID reports and bibliographies on sanitation programming.
- Sanitation Updates - Handbags from plastic wastes create jobs for the urban poor in India.
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