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Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2017
Time: 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm ET/ 21:00 – 21:30 GMT
Location: World Bank Group Headquarters
Tag Archives: NWP
eC2:Water Preparation, Use, and Waste Water Treatment Practices in Food Processing Development of a Tool
Deadline: 27-Apr-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
International Finance Corporation (IFC), through its Advisory Services in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) implements the ECA Energy and Water Solutions for Corporates program. The Program aims to catalyze uptake and increase investments in climate friendly energy and water efficient solutions, so that companies and municipalities in ECA become more productive and competitive. The Program delivers IFC services in energy and resource efficiency area via two components: (1) firm level advisory engagements and (2) market/sector-level activities with groups of firms.
The Program plans to develop a standardized advisory service to assess water efficiency, including water preparation and wastewater treatment, for its food processing clients in the region (the tool).
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Meeting Indonesia’s Urban Sanitation Needs
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Indonesia’s rapid urbanization brings challenges to meeting sanitation needs of the urban population.
- Access to improved sanitation facilities, with human excreta hygienically separated from human contact, has increased but 95% of fecal sludge is not treated and contaminates the environment.
- Indonesia is taking a new approach to meet its target of universal sanitation access by 2019.
eC2:Niger Delivery of water treatment options and behavioral interventions
Deadline: 10-Apr-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The World Bank is seeking to hire an experienced and qualified social marketing organization to (i) deliver chlorine inputs to about 150 selected rural villages in Dosso (22), Maradi (69), Zinder (41), Tillabéri (31) and Tahoua (35); (ii) adapt and implement behavioral supports for water treatment/ chlorine use designed in collaboration with the World Bank (iii); deliver training around sanitation behaviors in a sub-set of the villages where the intervention will be implemented. The intervention will take place in approximately 150 villages in and is expected to start in June 2017, at the end of the Ramadan. The assignment will be part of a WASH pilot intervention to augment the World Bank Niger Safety Nets project.
World Water Day: Take Action around the World to Tackle a Water Crisis
Today we celebrate World Water Day around the world.
- In Marseille, young people are coming together to promote innovative projects by entrepreneurs for recycling water in households, agriculture, industry and the environment, and to focus attention on the shared responsibility to build water security for the future of the Mediterranean Region.
- In Durban, the UN is launching the 2017 World Water Development Report (WWDR) titled “Wastewater: The Untapped Resource” and the High Level Panel on Water is unveiling the initiative on “Access to water and sanitation for 10 billion people” to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- In Rome, an unprecedented conversation is happening at the Vatican to shift how the world values and understands its single most precious resource: water.
- In Indonesia, national television is focusing on good practices in fecal sludge management, highlighting the link between poor sanitation and stunting, and discussing how to meet the country’s target of universal access to water and sanitation by 2019.
World Water Day is about taking action around the world to tackle a water crisis.
eC2: Community Mapping Facilitation and Training for Tanzania Urban Flood Risk Exposure
eC2: Resilience Assessment: Batoka Gorge Hydroelectric Scheme in the Zambezi River Basin
Deadline: 20-Mar-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
A detailed assessment of the effects of climate change and other performance risks such as upstream land-use changes and water abstractions, energy price fluctuations and development scenarios on the daily expected inflow for the Batoka Gorge HES is required to ensure robustness and identify risk mitigation measures. To this end, the consultancy will include: (i) an analysis that uses decision scaling techniques to examine if the technical design of the Batoka Gorge HES is robust to a range of expected changes due to climate change and other major socio-economic pressures. (ii) an investigation of the role of the Barotse Wetlands in attenuating the basins hydrological variability, including flows reaching the Batoka Gorge site; (iii) an examination of hydrological boundary conditions or trigger points for financial products that could be used to off-set hydrological risk; and (iv) related capacity building and training workshops. Continue reading
Building institutional capacity for rural sanitation: India’s Uttar Pradesh State
Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s most populous state with about 200 million people, has 
historically not performed well on sanitation. According to census figures from 2001 and 2011, the proportion of rural UP dwellers with a toilet increased slightly during the first decade of this century. However, the population grew as well, meaning that, overall, 13 million more people were defecating in the open in 2011.
Factors which have held back UP’s progress on sanitation include poverty, absence of a robust sanitation strategy, and lack of focus and determination from decision-makers.
How to test water quality? Here are some low-cost, low-tech options
Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) calls for “universal and equitable access to safe 
and affordable drinking water” by 2030, which is quite different from access to an “improved” water source, which has been our primary focus with the Millennium Development Goals. This makes water quality monitoring essential: how can we assess progress towards #SDG6 without knowing whether water is safe to drink?
Pulling the chain: business solutions for managing human fecal waste
Private sector investment principles could make the fecal sludge management chain sustainable, says a new report released in time for FSM4
To understand why innovation in fecal sludge management matters, ask yourself this: In 15 years, when almost 5 billion people are using on-site sanitation, solutions like pit latrines and septic tanks, what will the world do with all the fecal waste? About half that many people use onsite sanitation today, and we already have a hard time keeping up.
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