Excerpt: Naomi Antony, 22 October 2008 - "Ensuring safe water supplies and adequate sanitation throughout the developing world are the most effective measures for curbing poverty and improving health, a report claims.  The UN University (UNU) analysis, 'Safe Water as the Key to Global Health,' released [20 October], urges researchers to fill crucial knowledge gaps in these areas..."

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To learn more about the ways in which GL-CRSP projects contribute to improve the supply and sanitation of water in the developing world, click on the links to our projects below.

The SUMAWA project is a multidisciplinary research effort focusing on biophysical, livestock and human-related factors governing watershed processes for the purpose of improving long-term sustainability of rural watersheds in Kenya and East Africa. Recent project activity has focused on assembling representative conceptual and mathematical models of the biophysical and human dimensions of the watershed as they relate to watershed and human health and sustainability. Analyzing the potential benefits of BioSand Filters for household use in developing countries is also an important component of SUMAWA.

As part of the NJORO WATER project, implications of interactions between water supply development and access, water pollution conditions and sources, and household water use behavior for reducing water and sanitation-related disease burdens in the Njoro watershed will be explored in the context of sustainable and integrated water resources management, to identify alternative water supply development and management strategies at multiple scales.