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IDB flag. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB or IADB) is an international development finance institution headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States of America, and serving as the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. [1]
Structural adjustment. Structural adjustment programs ( SAPs) consist of loans ( structural adjustment loans; SALs) provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) to countries that experience economic crises. [ 1] Their stated purpose is to adjust the country's economic structure, improve international competitiveness ...
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has launched an initiative to use microcredits to promote these enterprises. As part of this initiative, the commercial microfinance bank K-Rep Bank provided loans to 21 community-managed water projects. The Global Partnership on Output-based Aid (GPOBA) supported the programme by providing partial subsidies.
The project, known by its acronym as KUWASIP (Karnataka Urban Water Sector Improvement Project), was supported by a US$ 39.5 million loan from the World Bank. It constitutes a milestone for India, where no large city so far has achieved continuous water supply. The project is expected to be scaled-up to cover the entire area of the three cities.
United States of America. Budget. 153,600,000,000USD. Status. active. Website. epa .gov /cwsrf. The Clean Water State Revolving Fund ( CWSRF) is a self-perpetuating loan assistance authority for water quality improvement projects in the United States. The fund is administered by the Environmental Protection Agency and state agencies.
Groundwater banking. Groundwater banking is a water management mechanism designed to increase water supply reliability. [ 1] Groundwater can be created by using dewatered aquifer space to store water during the years when there is abundant rainfall. It can then be pumped and used during years that do not have a surplus of water. [ 1]
The Nicaragua Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project is a combination credit (US$0.3 million) and grant (US$19.7 million) which was approved in June, 2008. The project, which will be implemented by FISE, aims to increase access to sustainable water supply and sanitation services in the rural areas of the country.
Bogotá Tourism. Urban water management in Bogotá, a metropolitan area of more than 8 million inhabitants, faces three main challenges: improving the quality of the highly polluted Bogotá River, controlling floods and revitalizing riparian areas along the river. The main public entities in charge of water resources management in Bogotá are ...