Access to Water

As the world observes World Water Day (March 22) and the International Year of Water Cooperation, IDRC asked researchers: How do we ensure fair and equitable access to water?

Water will play a significant role in the next millennium due to fresh water shortages. To ensure fair and equitable access to water, we must protect our watersheds, the basic building blocks of the environment on which people, plants, and animals depend.

These contributions can be accessed at:

http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/ArticleDetails.aspx?PublicationID=1176

Building Effective Drinking Water Management Policies in Rural Africa: Lessons from Northern Uganda

The essence of providing clean, safe drinking water and sanitation to rural inhabitants of developing countries is widely recognized; inadequate access to safe drinking water and sanitation has direct and immediate consequences for quality of life, food security, long-term socio-economic development and the eradication of poverty. This report is available at: http://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/no6.pdf