CAWST - Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology

The Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) is a registered Canadian charity that provides professional services - education, training and technical consulting - to organizations that serve the poor in developing countries. CAWST doesn't fund or implement projects. Instead, we provide the services that are the catalyst for independent, community-driven water and sanitation projects.

This approach...

* Empowers, motivates and generates grass roots action within the community;
* Provides opportunities for continuous learning and support;
* Generates multiple, independent actions required to reach the UN Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation;
* Has improved drinking water for 1,125,000 people in 49 countries since 2001; and
* Is driven by a vision of a more equitable world.

Our vision is a world where people have the opportunity to succeed because their basic water and sanitation needs have been met.

Our mission is to provide technical training, consulting, and to act as a centre of expertise in water and sanitation for the poor in developing countries.

Services:

* Training Programs ... to get you started or to expand your skills and knowledge
* Consulting & Support ... to sift through the volumes of technical information, provide technical support, or to coach and encourage
* Technical & Program Evaluations ... to assess your project or to teach you how to self-assess
* Network-Building ... to encourage sharing of best-practices

CAWST also offers Learning Aids for community water, sanitation and hygiene. All posters and educational materials provided on this website may be freely distributed.

www.cawst.org

http://www.akvo.org/

Watercan is a Canadian charity dedicated to ending poverty by helpin the world's poorest people gain access to clean water, basic sanitation, hygiene education.

They work mainly in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

http://www.watercan.com/

WaterAid

http://www.wateraid.org/uk/

http://www.wateraid.org/usa/

WaterAid works in 17 countries around the world providing sanitation and hygiene education.

http://www.charitywater.org/

PlayPumps International

www.playpumps.org

Here's a video on what they do.

Lifewater International

www.lifewater.org

Lifewater International is a nonprofit organization that helps developing countries gain access to clean, safe water, and improved health through sanitation and hygiene.

Lifewater recognizes that water, sanitation, and hygiene are essential to health. Without them, people are put at great risk for a number of diseases.

Lifewater's work involves water well drilling, hand pump repair, water filter construction, and sanitation and hygiene education.

Lifewater currently works in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Ecuador, Zambia, Southeast and Central Asia.

Lifewater is committed to meeting both physical and spiritual needs. By embracing a holistic view of human needs, it aims to alleviate suffering and trigger community-wide transformation at all levels. Many partner agencies incorporate Lifewater training with their existing ministries, sharing about God’s love and even planting churches in villages where they do water development. Without discriminating, and in partnership with trained nationals, Lifewater offers both safe water and the love of Christ to all those who thirst.

International Training Network Centre
for Water Supply & Waste Management,
Civil Engineering Building , 3rd floor
BUET, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Phone : + (880 2) 9663693, 9663695, 9665650-80 Extn. 7689
Fax : + (880 2) 9663695
E-mail : itnaz@agni.com
Homepage: www.buet.ac.bd/itn

Thanks Saifur for this link.

Barb

WSP Water and Sanitation Group
http://www.wsp.org

The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is a multi-donor partnership of the World Bank. Our goal is to help the poor gain sustained access to improved water supply and sanitation services (WSS).

We work directly with client governments at the local and national level in 25 countries through 4 regional offices and in the World Bank headquarters, Washington D.C. Our aim is to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation by 2015.

For almost thirty years, WSP has led or supported many of the advances made within the water and sanitation sector. We are able to share best practices across regions and place a strong focus on capacity building by forming partnerships with nongovernmental organizations, governments at all levels, community organizations, private industry, and donors. Our work helps to effect the regulatory and structural changes needed for broad WSS reform.

Our challenge is to replicate successful approaches, continue targeted learning efforts, and support reforms that will ensure the adoption of sustainable investments in the sector that in real terms help people rise from poverty.

Main Office
1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20433
Phone +1 (202) 473-9785
Fax +1 (202) 522-3313, 522-3228
Email: wsp@worldbank.org

Africa: Regional Contact
World Bank
Hill Park Building
P.O. Box 30577-00100
Nairobi, Kenya
Phone (254-20)322 6334
Fax 254-20) 322 6386
Email wspaf@worldbank.org

Country offices:

Benin
The World Bank
Route de l'Aéroport
Face Hotel Marina ex Sheraton
P.O. Box 03-2112
Cotonou
Tel: +229 - 21 305 857/21 305 814

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
World Bank Office
4847, Avenue Wagenia
Kinshasa-Gombe
Tel: +243 99-9949015/ +243 81-70 05 215

Mozambique
The World Bank
Ave. Kenneth Kaunda, # 1224
Caixa Postal 4053
Maputo
Tel: +258-21-482-355

Rwanda
The World Bank
Blvd. de la Revolution
SORAS Building P.O. Box 609
Kigali
Tel: (+250) 591323

Tanzania
The World Bank
50 Mirambo Street, Mirambo Building
P.O. Box 2054
Dar es Salaam
Tel: (+255-22) 211 4575/6/7 Ext. 3286

Uganda
The World Bank
Plot 1, Lumumba Road
Rwenzori House, 4th Floor
P.O. Box 4463
Kampala
Tel: (+256-41) 302 256 / 231 230 / 230 094
(+256 31) 2232555/77-2232555

Burkino Faso
The World Bank
179, Avenue du President Saye Zerbo Zone des Ambassades
Koulouba
01 BP 622
Ouagadougou 01
Tel: +226 50 306237/8

Ethiopia
The World Bank
Africa Avenue, Bole Road
P.O. Box 5515
Addis Ababa
Tel: (+251-11) 662 7700

Niger
The World Bank
187 rue des Dallols
BP 12402 Niamey
Tel: +227 20 73 49 66/72 21 88

Sénégal
The World Bank
3, Place de l'Indépendance
Immeuble SDIH 10 ème étage
B.P. 3296
Dakar
Tel: +221 842-65-84 / 849-50-00

Tunisia
Bureau de liaison Banque Mondiale
Bank Africaine de développement
Bureau 618, 13 Avenue du Ghana
1002 Tunis Belvédère
BP 323 Tunis
Tel: +216 71 10 34 18/+216 71 103578

Zambia
The World Bank
Anglo American Building
74 Independence Avenue, 3rd Floor
P.O. Box 35410
Lusaka
Tel: (260-1) 252-811

East Asia and Pacific:
World Bank
Jakarta Stock Exchange Building
Tower 2, 13th Floor JI. Jend. Sudirman
Kav. 52-53, Jakarta 12190, Indonesia
Phone (62-21)5299 3003
Fax (62-21) 5299 3004
Email wspeap@worldbank.org

Latin America and Caribbean

Water and Sanitation Program
Latin America and the Caribbean
World Bank Office, Lima
Alvarez Calderón N. 185,
San Isidro, Lima 27, Perú
Phone (51-1) 615-0685
Fax (51-1) 615-0689
Email wsplac@worldbank.org

Bolivia
Calle Fernando Guachilla 342
Edificio Victor
Piso 9
La Paz

Honduras
Oficina Banco Mundial
Centro Financiero Citi, 4to Piso
Boulevard San Juan Bosco,
Colonia Payaquí
Tegucigalpa

Ecuador
Av. 12 de Octubre y Cordero
Edificio World Trade Center
Torre B
Piso 13
Quito

Nicaragua
Banco Mundial Nicaragua
Km. 6 1/2 Carretera a Masaya
Edificio Cobirsa 2, quinto piso
Managua

South Asia Regional Office
World Bank
55 Lodi Estate
New Delhi 110003, India

Phone (91-11) 2469 0488/ 2469 0489
Fax (91-11) 2462 8250
Email wspsa@worldbank.org

Bangladesh
Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia
The World Bank Office
E-32 Agargaon,
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar,
Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh
Telephone : (880-2) 815 9001-14,815-9015-28
Fax : (880-2) 815-9029

Pakistan
Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia
The World Bank Office
20A Shahrah-e-Jamhuriat
G-5/1 Islamabad, Pakistan
Phone: (92-51) 2279641
Fax: (92-51) 2826 362

Hello Barbs,
I have joined the Water and Sanitation group with plenty of enthusiasm to learn as much as possible and find ideas to assist my community. The biggest problem of the village is flooding which is usually very heavy and destructive. One of the serious effects of these floods is contamination of water and lack of hygiene, because the latrines are washed away and human waste gets mixed with water used by people. In many flood events there is an outbreak of water borne diseases, especially cholera which kills many people.

Even in the absence of floods there is syill a serious problem with sanitation. The water table is very low and the pit latrines are always shallow, so they fill up fast. The soil is waek and any little disturbance will bring the structure down. In fact in many homestaeads people simply do not have toilets! Drinking water is not as safe as would be expected. People rely on water purification medicines which are provided but not always used properly. Inasmuch as we all know the importance of boiling drinking water, this is not possible for many poor people because they find it difficult to get enough firewood even for normal cooking.

It would really help the community if there were more permanent wells. again they need some extensive training on keeping the wells clean and free from contamination. This knowledge is non-existent and yet it could help the community groups to ensure the safety of their water. The problem of sanitation cannot improve without stronger toilets which can resist the flood waters or remain intact after the flooding. I believe that the neighbours will have a lot of input which I could onpass to the community. We have a lot of schools that need urgent solutions and even within our own project (Zindua Dada Center) there is a big problem of toilets being washed away and at present the more than 100 young children who will be attending school there will be expected to share 2 or 3 temporary latrines. But when floods come, we have to start all over again.

I will appreciate your ideas and look forward to feedback on this. Please help this community reduce vulnerabilty and lead healthy lives.

Thanks,

Lillian -LR Budalang'i village.

This projects was initiated by a group of individuals in the village and so Guinness Cameroon decided to stretch his hand of fellowship to us and it became a reality.presently we are doing everything possible to open up more water tanks to satisfy the needs of this small village than has gone for a long time without clean and portable water.

Hello Lillian,

Thank you for joining the water and sanitation group. I hope you find some good input here.

I am not a water expert, so I can only provide information and resources, but I can look over some of the resources already provided and see what is available. I will also try to find out some information specific to the problems facing your community, although since I am not a water expert, I can only gather information and hopefully you will find contacts that you can follow up with.

Also, I think there are other communities that face similar situations related to flooding. Maybe there are others here that can share their experiences.

If anyone has any information, ideas or comments, please post them here.

Barb

Hello Mohamed,

Thank you for joining this group and posting about this project. Do you have any other information about the work being done? Is there a website or maybe some examples or lessons that others can learn from?

Thanks,

Barb

Another group that works on water and sanitation issues is Engineers Without Borders. Here is a link to the Canadian site that has some good information on some of the work they do, including a pump. Thanks to Paul for providing the link in another thread.

http://www.ewb.ca/en/whatwedo/overseas/projects/treadle.html