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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.
An SRF Functions Like an Infrastructure Bank. All 50 states, plus Puerto Rico operate a CWSRF. The 51 CWSRF programs function like environmental infrastructure banks by distributing low interest rate loans for water quality projects. Loan repayments are recycled back into individual CWSRF programs.
Learn about the water resources, quality, use and challenges of Bangladesh, a country with high population density and low economic efficiency. Find out how Bangladesh copes with arsenic, salinity, floods and cyclones in its water sector.
SDG 6 aims to ensure clean water and sanitation for all by 2030. It has eight targets and 11 indicators to measure progress, covering water supply, sanitation, hygiene, water quality, water efficiency, and water ecosystems.
IWMI is a non-profit research organisation under CGIAR with headquarters in Sri Lanka and offices across Africa and Asia. It focuses on improving water and land resources management for food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.
According to UN estimates that are not based on any household survey, access to an improved water source in Lebanon is universal. [1] The UN figures on water access may not give an accurate picture of the real situation: A representative survey carried out by the World Bank in 2008 estimated that the average connection rate to the public water network was 80%, varying from 96% in Beirut to 55% ...
The projects do not cost as much to construct and store the same amount, if not more, than the surface reservoirs. [6] The bank will have less of an impact on the environment than a surface reservoir. [6] The water that is in the bank will no longer be exposed to evaporation, but several feet per year of water is lost in the reservoirs. [6]
The World Bank assists the Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC) with a US$23m Water Sector Performance Improvement Project approved in 2006. $22m will be used to support LWSC and $1m will support "institutional capacity building to prepare the Ministry of Local Government and Housing to advance a coordinated approach for the sector". [37]