Water

The lack of adequate sanitation facilities in both urban and rural communities is a major cause of water pollution and has adverse effects on people's health and lives. These case studies present developing countries' solutions to their sanitation problems which include the provision of ecological sanitation (ECOSAN) toilets, efficient water treatment systems, among others.

• 3rd Water Supply and Sanitation Project—Participatory, Consultative and Empowering (September 2006)
• A Year after the Quake, Sanitation Changes Lives (November 2006)
• Are Countries in Asia on Track to Meet Target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals? (November 2005)
• Bringing Water Supply and Sanitation Services to Tribal Villages in Orissa the Gram Vikas Way (April 2006)
• Infrastructures and Institutions for Urban Water Supply and Sanitation (May 2006)
• Institutionalized Community-Managed Approach for Water Supply and Sanitation in Agusan del Sur (May 2006)
• Low-Cost Toilets Change the Face of Bhopal’s Slums (June 2006)
• Making Rural Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Gender-Sensitive and Pro-Poor (May 2006)
• Meeting the Sanitation Challenge: Low Technology, High Rewards (January 2006)
• Planning Pollution Control in Shandong Province's Hai River Basin (May 2006)
• Project Brings Hope for Clean-up of Rawalpindi's "Shame" (July 2006)
• Providing Water Supply and Sanitation to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (May 2006)
• Smart Sanitation Cleans Lilo-an’s Coast (August 2006)
• Water Treatment Success Overshadows Solid Waste Management (April 2006)