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Revisa la situacion y las politicas adoptadas referente al abastecimiento de agua potable y a los servicios de saneamiento ambiental en America Latina, analizando el impacto de ambas en las condiciones de vida de mujeres y ninos.


With increasing pressures from global changes (urbanization, climate change, etc.), cities in Africa will experience difficulties in efficiently managing water resources. Most of the urbanization in Africa over the next 30 years will occur in fast-growing small towns that lack mature infrastructu...


Bahri, A.Brikke, F.Vairavamoorthy, Kalanithy[Managing change to implement integrated urban water management in African cities]Managing change to implement integrated urban water management in African cities
Shah, Tushaar[Increasing water security: the key to implementing the sustainable development goals]Increasing water security: the key to implementing the sustainable development goals

The UN recognition of a human right to water for drinking, personal and other domestic uses and sanitation in 2010 was a political breakthrough in states’ commitments to adopt a human rights framework in carrying out part of their mandate. This chapter explores other domains of freshwater governa...


Koppen, Barbara C.M. vanHellum, A.Mehta, L.Derman, B.Schreiner, B.[Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses]Rights-based freshwater governance for the twenty-first century: beyond an exclusionary focus on domestic water uses
Villholth, Karen G.Conti, K.I.[Groundwater governance: rationale, definition, current state and heuristic framework]Groundwater governance: rationale, definition, current state and heuristic framework

This Research Report chronicles the evolution of thinking on water productivity in the research agenda of IWMI and in the broader irrigation literature over the past 20 years. It describes the origins of the concept and the methodological developments, its operationalization through applied resea...


Giordano, Meredith A.Turral, H.Scheierling, S.M.Treguer, D.O.McCornick, Peter G.[Beyond “More Crop per Drop”: evolving thinking on agricultural water productivity]Beyond “More Crop per Drop”: evolving thinking on agricultural water productivity
Samad, MadarAheeyar, Mohamed M.M.Royo-Olid, J.Arulingam, Indika[The political and institutional context of the water sector in Sri Lanka: an overview]The political and institutional context of the water sector in Sri Lanka: an overview

This article discusses ways in which the South African Government and grassroots organizations envisage and implement democracy achieved since 1994 in the eld of water resources management. The focus is on the democratic, political and economic freedom and equality in resource rights for poor bl...


Schreiner, B.Mohapi, N.Koppen, Barbara C.M. van[Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa]Washing away poverty: water, democracy and gendered poverty eradication in South Africa

A study was conducted in Sargodha, Pakistan during the year 2011 to testify irrigation practices as a method for reclaiming salt affected soil. Field experiments were conducted on saline-sodic and uncultivated land divided into 12 field plots. Six irrigation treatments, each replicated on two fie...


Bhatti, Muhammad TousifSarwar, M.KTahir, A.A.Yar, M.[Effect of irrigation application on soil and land productivity of wheat under semi-arid environment]Effect of irrigation application on soil and land productivity of wheat under semi-arid environment

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