ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.
Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members—49 from the region.
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ADB supports projects in developing member countries that create economic and development impact, delivered through both public and private sector operations, advisory services, and knowledge support.
Neeta Pokhrel, Chief of Water Sector Group, has over 25 years of experience working with ADB, private sector, international consulting firms, non-governmental organizations and water utilities. She leads strategic development of ADB’s water sector and provides knowledge management and implementation support to the operational departments to meet ADB’s goals of resilient and water secure Asia and the Pacific.
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Measuring the Impact of West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project: A Baseline Study
This paper analyzes the impact of a project intended to provide safe, sustainable, and inclusive drinking water to over 1.65 million people in West Bengal’s Bankura, North and South 24 Parganas, and Purba Medinipur districts.
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Tapping the Unreached: Nepal Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Projects─A Sustainable Model of Service Delivery
This booklet highlights key features of successful delivery of water and sanitation services in small towns in Nepal, sector reforms, and lessons learned in designing water supply and sanitation projects.
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Transforming Kolkata: A Partnership for a More Sustainable, Inclusive, and Resilient City
This publication summarizes the outcomes to date and explores the views of stakeholders in the 2 decades of partnership between ADB and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in India.
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Five Lessons For Digitizing Asia’s Water Systems
A wide range of innovative digital technologies can improve the efficiency and resilience of water services. -
A Novel Approach to Tracking COVID-19
Testing sewage for the coronavirus could provide vital clues to its spread in areas where mass testing is difficult. -
For rural water systems, small and simple is a "pipe dream"
The idea that rural water schemes are only sustainable if small, simple and locally managed is a bias that must be overcome to get more clean water to the people who need it. -
India: Smart partnerships making Kolkata a smart city
Thanks to innovative taxation and urban services reforms, the city is on its way to becoming smart.
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ADB Announces $200 Million Goal for Water Resilience Program
ADB joined with partners at COP27 to announce the ambition to mobilize more than $200 million from 2021 to 2025 to build water and sanitation resilience and security in Asia and the Pacific.
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Inclusive Sanitation Needed to Address Service Gap in Asia and Pacific
Developing countries in Asia and the Pacific must reassess their approach and investment priorities to adopt citywide inclusive sanitation to address the region’s urban sanitation crisis, according to discussions today at the...