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   To achieve water security, we must see its human face

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 February 2013

   ‘I am telling you, I am torn between my work and water.’
   
   ‘I cannot save water for myself while knowing that my neighbour has no water. I should give it to my neighbour.’
   
   ‘I cannot transport water on my own. However I can rely on others who have donkeys.’
   

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2. Achieving water security: lessons from research in water supply, sanitation and hygiene in Ethiopia

   Publication - Books or book chapters - 2 January 2013

   Edited by Roger Calow, Eva Ludi and Josephine Tucker

   Achieving water security remains an elusive goal across swathes of sub-Saharan Africa. This book asks why, and draws on extensive field research and institutional analysis in Ethiopia to offer insights for policy and practice which are relevant across the continent.

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   The private sector’s contribution to water management: re-examining corporate purposes and company roles

   Publication - Journal articles or issues - 9 October 2012

   Water Alternatives Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages 603-618

   Peter Newborne and Nathaniel Mason

   Corporate water policies are evolving and practices developing, raising issues of what are appropriate private-sector roles in water management. Leaders of multinational companies have pledged to increase water use efficiencies in company plants/premises and down supply chains, while promoting partnerships in water management with a range of actors, public and private, including local communities. A set of questions is, here, posed for consideration by governments and communities, on the extent, limits and implications of private-sector involvement, particularly in contexts of water scarcity.

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   Securing food and water

   Opinion - Films and videos - 4 July 2012

   Roger Calow, Head of the Water Policy Programme, discusses water and food security at a Global Business Symposium on Securing Food and Water, convened by the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, June 2012.
   

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5. Voices from the Source: struggles with water security in Ethiopia

   Projects - February 2012 to July 2012

   This research will encourage people to speak for themselves, to articulate their own diversity of views on what their understandings are of water ‘security and insecurity’. It will also explore how people interpret the links between these understandings and their wider food, income health and other forms of security constituting their overall human security.

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6. EAU4Food

   Projects - July 2011 to July 2014

   EAU4Food seeks to address the enormous challenges African agriculture is facing today: despite numerous attempts, agricultural productivity has only slightly increased in recent years and, in general, cannot keep up with population growth. In the coming years irrigation will gain importance, but at the same time the availability of fresh water and the sustainable use of soil resources is under increasing pressure

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   Water in food security assessment and drought early warning

   Publication - Discussion papers - 1 April 2011

   RiPPLE Working Papers 21

   Josephine Tucker, Leulseged Yirgu

   This paper is based on a literature review on the role of water in drought preparedness, early warning systems and responses.

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   Making the case for sanitation and hygiene: opening doors in health

   Publication - Discussion papers - 9 June 2010

   ODI Background Notes

   Peter Newborne

   In many developing countries, sanitation and hygiene (S&H) remain low political and policy priorities. This Background Note outlines the important of advocacy on S&H within the health sector, as a way to accelerate progress on this key issue.

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   Promoting sanitation and hygiene to rural households in Southern Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia: experiences of health extension workers and community health promoters

   Publication - Discussion papers - 30 April 2010

   RiPPLE Working Papers 15

   Seleshi Behailu, Getachew Redaie, Dereje Mamo, Desta Dimtse, Peter Newborne

   This research study confirms that health extension workers (HEWs) and community health promoters (CHPs) in the Southern Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia are going about their work of informing households on improved sanitation and hygiene practices and are succeeding in persuading many households to change their behaviour.

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    World Water Day: Skewed adaptation to climate change spells trouble for water resource management

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 March 2010

    Adaptation to climate change has gained ground within the international policy arena in recent years. But confusion remains on how best to support adaptation, given the broad range of interventions that aim to facilitate it.  

    While this problem applies to any interventions seeking to address adaptation, it is particularly relevant to the water sector.

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