Water for the World Technical Notes

• The 160 Water for the World technical notes were published by USAID in the 1980's and are now organized and available on the Lifewater web site. The technical notes are divided into the following categories: Water Supply/Sanitation, Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, and Disease.

Water and Sanitation for Heath (WASH) Project

• The Water and Sanitation for Health Project (WASH) preceded the Environmental Health Project (EHP) and published more than 500 reports from 1980 to 1994. WASH Technical Reports are manuals or guidelines and WASH Field Reports are usually country or region specific. Below are links to selected WASH Technical and Field Reports. There is also a search feature for EHP and WASH Reports by Country. Full-text documents are in pdf format and the Adobe Reader can be downloaded free of charge.

WASH Reports - Technical Reports/Lessons Learned

• 1993. Lessons learned in water, sanitation and health: thirteen years of experience in developing countries (pdf, 6.8MB).
• 1994. Making Interdisciplinary Teams Work: A Guide for Team Leaders and Technical Assistance Managers, technical report 94.
• 1994. Sustainability of donor-assisted rural water supply projects, technical report 94. (pdf, 4802 KB)
  
  
• 1993. Community sanitation improvement and latrine construction program: a training guide, technical report 83. (pdf, 11784KB)
  
• 1993. Conducting a Team Planning Meeting for Studies and Concept Development Tasks: Facilitator's Guide, technical report 87.
• 1993. Constraints in Providing Water and Sanitation Services to the Urban Poor, technical report 85.
• 1993. Designing and Implementing Decentralization Programs in the Water and Sanitation Sector, technical report 89.
• 1993. Financing wastewater services in developing countries, technical report 80. (pdf, 2,274 KB)
  
  
• 1993. Helping communities manage their water finances : a manual for extension personnel working in rural or peri-urban communities, technical report 93. (pdf, 1231KB)
• 1993. Models of management systems for the operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation facilities, technical report 71. (pdf, 3,356KB)
• 1993. Preparing for private sector participation in the provision of water supply and sanitation services, technical report 84. (pdf, 1,830KB)
• 1993. The Unique Challenges of Improving Peri-Urban Sanitation, technical report 86.
  
  
• 1992. Cholera prevention and control : guidelines for assessing the options in water supply, sanitation and hygiene education, field report 380. (pdf, 1247KB)
• 1992. Economic benefits available from the provision of improved potable water supplies : a review and assessment of the existing evidence, technical report 77. (pdf, 3,643 KB)
• 1992. Institutionalizing community management : processes for scaling up, technical report 76. (pdf, 1516KB)
• 1992. Manual: guidelines for water reuse, technical report 81. (pdf, 14403 KB)
  
• 1992. Maximizing the economic impact of urban water supply and sanitation investments, technical report 82. (pdf, 1136 KB)
• 1992. Rethinking sanitation : adding behavioral change to the project mix, technical report 72. (pdf, 1895 KB)
  
  
• 1991. Workshop design for the training of trainers, technical report 73. (pdf, 6115 KB)
  
  
• 1990. Guidelines for conducting a financial management assessment of water authorities, technical report 53. (pdf, 1715 KB)
• 1990. Health benefits from improvements in water supply and sanitation: survey and analysis of the literature on selected diseases, technical report 66. (pdf, 2391 KB)
  
  
• 1988.Facilitator Guide for Conducting a Project Start-Up Workshop, technical report 41.
• 1988. Guidelines for Institutional Assessment: Water and Wastewater Institutions, technical report 37.
• 1988. Human resource development planning: guidelines for the water supply and sanitation sector, technical report 20. (pdf, 2911 KB)
  
• 1988. Managing institutional development projects : water and sanitation sector, technical report 49. (pdf, 2,592 KB)
  
  
• 1985. Facilitator Guide for Conducting a Team Planning Meeting, technical report 32.
• 1981. Role of women as participants and beneficiaries in water supply and sanitation programs, technical report 11. (pdf, 1408KB)
  
• 1981. Women, water and the decade, technical report 6. (pdf, 1220 KB)

WASH Field Reports by Country/Region

Worldwide

• 1991. Principles of tariff design for water and wastewater services, field report 348. (pdf, 1109 KB)
• 1990. Programming guide for guinea worm eradication, field report 329. (pdf, 3539 KB)
  
• 1988. Guidelines for conducting willingness-to-pay studies for improved water services in developing countries, field report 306. (pdf, 3672 KB)

Africa

• 1994. Senegal River Basin health master plan study, field report 453. (pdf, 8823 KB)
  
• 1993. Comparison of the health effects of water supply and sanitation in urban and rural areas of five African countries, field report 398. (pdf, 2893KB)
• 1989. Strategy recommendations for water supply and sanitation in Africa, field report 290. (pdf, 1694KB)
• Developing sustainable community water supply systems: key questions for African Development Foundation applicants, field report 270. (pdf, 1558KB)
  
• 1989. Water and sanitation sector profiles of twenty African countries. (pdf, 10414 KB)
  

Asia/Near East

• 1989. Rural water supply, sanitation, and environmental issues in Asia and the Near East (ANE), field report 282. (pdf, 2592KB)

Eastern Europe

• 1993. Water quality pre-investment studies in four Danube River tributary basins: summary report, field report 407. (pdf, 4399KB)
  

Ecuador

• 1993. Environmental health assessment : a case study conducted in the City of Quito and the country of Pedro Moncayo, Pichincha Province, Ecuador, field report 401. (pdf, 4,526 KB)

Guatemala

• 1991. Comparison of the health effects of water supply and sanitation in urban and rural Guatemala, field report 352. (pdf, 1879 KB)

Jamaica

• 1992. Management analysis and privatization options of the National Water Commission, Jamaica, field report 361. (pdf, 3953KB)

Jordan

• 1988. Water and wastewater sector assessment in Jordan, field report 244. (pdf, 4184KB)
  
• 1982. Proposed action plan for a national training program in the water sector for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, field report 34. (pdf, 2893KB)

Tanzania

• 1982. Environmental sanitation master plan for training and education in Tanzania, field report 58. (pdf, 4370KB)
  

Tunisia

• 1990. Action plan: development of the national strategy to create and monitor water user associations in Tunisia, field report 300. (pdf, 2811 KB) -
  
• 1990. Re-examination of costs and benefits of rural water supply projects in Central Tunisia, field report 298. (pdf, 2489 KB)