Water & Sanitation Resources

Appropriate Technology

Media Resources

Sustainable Sanitation

AllianceSUSANA

Village Earth

Sandec GIZ

SSWM

APPROPEDIA

GuradianResources

SPHERE STANDARDS

Climate Change

Bill McKibben

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Podcasts WELL Resources

Global Water Partnership

IRC Practical Action

Rural Water Supply

WHO

Sandec Energy

EWB UK

Climate Change

IPCCHEALTH Climate

Change

James Lovelock

Sandec Climate Change

James Hansen

Renewable Energy

Innovation

Climate Change

Planetary Boundaries

DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION RESOURCE LIBRARY

The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance is an open international alliance dedicated to understanding viable sanitation solutions.

It links practitioners, academics, policy makers, communities etc. with the aim of promoting innovation and best practices in policy, programming and technology.

It publishes a useful email digest of current practice, users can request a copy at: digest@forum.susans.org

www.susana.org/en

Sustainable Sanitation Alliance

Sandec is the Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag).Their work in five research fields takes place in close collaboration with international and local organisations. These collaborations contribute to increasing research capacity and professional expertise in partner countries.

It publishes a useful newsletter of current practice online.

http://www.sandec.ch/index_EN

SANDECWater & Sanitation

in Developing Countries

GIZ is a useful resource for two primary sources of information as follows: .

It publishes a useful newsletter of current practice relating to climate change, subscription by contacting:

climate@giz.de

It also contains a useful resource library which can be freely accessed on:

http://www.giz.de/en/mediacenter/publications.html

GIZ

SSWM provides a number of useful sanitation and water management resources which can be accessed through:

http://www.sswm.info/home

It also publishes a useful newsletter of current practice which can be subscribed to as follows:

http://www.sswm.info/mailchimp/subscribe

Sustainable Sanitation& Water

ManagementSSWM

A collection of the brilliant, innovative, appropriate and sometimes daft:

http://www.appropedia.org/

Useful for prompting ideas and researching simple applications of technology.

Check out the section on open source 3D printing – could this be the “appropriate technology of the future”

APPROPEDIA

This is the original of the species – a collection of over 1050 books dealing with do it yourself technology. Some useful info buried inside. Some of the resources however, seem quite dated and most are now either available freely on the internet or replaced by youtube or vimeo. Still worth a search.

http://www.villageearth.org/appropriate-technology/appropriate-technology-library

Village Earth – Appropriate Technology

Library

This is a very useful network which connects professionals in a range of disciplines working in the supply of safe affordable water.

The website can be accessed on:

http://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/

There is also a very useful newsletter which can be obtained by contacting:

Sean.furey@skat.ch

Rural Water Supply Network

A useful introduction to global development containing a collection of multi-media resources

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development

The section climate change provides a useful starting point for this topic: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-change

Finally we recommend George Monbiot’s blog on climate change for some stimulating info which you may not totally agree with but will provoke some debate.http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot+climate-change

GuardianGlobal

Development

A useful introduction to global development containing a collection of multi-media resources

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development

The section climate change provides a useful starting point for this topic: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-change

Finally we recommend George Monbiot’s blog on climate change for some stimulating info which you may not totally agree with but will provoke some debate.http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot+climate-change

Podcasts for Global

Development

Well resource centre for water and sanitation & environmental health, Loughborough University. The WELL website is a focal point for providing access to information about water, sanitation and environmental health and related issues in developing and transitional countries.

www.lboro.ac.uk/well

WELL Resource Centre

GWP was founded in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to foster integrated water resource management (IWRM).

The network is open to all organisations involved in water resources management. The website is useful for strategy rather than practical action based resources.

http://www.gwp.org/en/About-GWP/

Global Water Partnership

This is a useful website which gives an overview of both practical projects and wash strategy

http://www.ircwash.org/

IRC International Water & Sanitation

Centre

“Schumacher’s groundbreaking book ‘Small is Beautiful’ is as relevant today as it was in the 1970s. We are still living in a world where economic growth and technological advancements offers little for the two billion people living in abject poverty. And we still treat our planet as expendable – exploiting it beyond its natural capacity – with global warming being one such devastating result”. This website gives an excellent overview of how Schuamcher’s philosohpy has been implemented in todays post-climate changing world.

http://practicalaction.org/welcome-to-practical-action

Practical Action

The World Health Organisation publishes a series of guidelines and standards for water, sanitation and environmental health related topics.

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/en/

World Health Organisation

The Sphere Project – or ‘Sphere’ – was initiated in 1997 by a group of humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Their aim was to improve the quality of their actions during disaster response and to be held accountable for them.

The minimum standards describe conditions that must be achieved in any humanitarian response in order for disaster-affected populations to survive and recover in stable conditions and with dignity.

http://www.spherehandbook.org/en/what-is-sphere/

The Sphere Standards

Renewable Energy Innovation specialise in electrical and electronic systems for renewable energy projects, mainly solar, wind and micro-hydro. We focus on renewable energy based stand-alone power supply systems (off-grid systems). This includes power and energy monitoring, battery charge control and wiring systems.

We have not worked with them ourselves but their website appears to have a number of free to download resources and they also offer pre-departure training courses for field based engineers.

http://www.re-innovation.co.uk/web12/index.php/en/

Renewable Energy

Innovation

The overall aim of the Energy book is to provide a cohesive, concise and practical guide to help field practitioners (such as Engineers Without Borders placement volunteers) maximise the positive impact of energy-related projects .

The authors have made the book free to download and express the opinion that it should be used, added to and distributed to assist those working in the field. The resources and reference list is useful for those working in this area.

https://thewindyboy.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/energy-book-final-for-press.pdf

Energy For Engineers

This site contains an overview of EWB uk and includes references to current and past projects, and useful publications and resources.

http://www.ewb-uk.org/

Engineers Without Borders UK

The IPCC is a scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations (UN). It reviews and assesses the most recent

scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change. It does not conduct any research nor does it

monitor climate related data or parameters.

Its most recent report is available at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/

Climate Change

IPCC

The Hesperian Foundation began in the 1970s in Ajoya, Mexico. There, an expanding group of volunteers working with villagers created a simple manual to use medically accurate knowledge in a culturally appropriate way to address community health needs.

They published this manual in 1973 as Donde No Hay Doctor.

In 1977, to share it with the world, Hesperian published the English language version Where There Is No Doctor, now the most widely used health book in the world.

http://hesperian.org/

Health

James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.He is credited with the concept of Gaia, the living planet.

www.jameslovelock.org/

Climate Change

James Lovelock

William Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and

journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming

www.billmckibben.com/

Climate Change

Bill McKibben

In 2009, a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists identified and quantified a set of nine planetary

boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for

generations to come. Crossing these boundaries could generate abrupt or irreversible environmental changes.

Respecting the boundaries reduces the risks to human society of crossing these

thresholdshttp://

www.stockholmresilience.org/21/research/.html

Videohttps://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgqtrlixYR4

Climate Change

Planetary Boundaries

James Edward Hansen is an American adjunct professor in the Department of

Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.

www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/

Climate Change

James Hansen