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WASH-Flows is an analytical tool to estimate and assess the vulnerability of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services at the household and community level.
Woman collecting water from a rural reservoir tank, Taucachi community, La Paz, Bolivia.
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The WASH-Flows tool was created to fill the need for a more integrated representation of WASH services in watershed planning, as the two sectors traditionally have different scales of analysis.
When household information is aggregated, it is possible to gain insight into the status of WASH services in communities. Such aggregation also allows estimates of how WASH interventions at the household level may influence water balance, quality and distribution at the community and watershed scale.
The tool is meant to assist planners, practitioners, and local governments to assess the progress towards the targets for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, as well as prioritize WASH interventions to leave no one behind in both rural and peri-urban settings.
Read this brief in Spanish (https://doi.org/10.51414/sei2023.053).
Project / Bolivia WATCH works to arm the country's institutions with the information and capacity to connect two spheres: safe sanitation and watershed management.
Project / SEI trabaja con el gobierno de Guatemala para mejorar la planificación del gestión del recurso hídrico del país.
Perspective / Urgent action and better policies are needed to improve sanitation systems and services in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Tool / Resource Value Mapping (REVAMP) helps city planners estimate resources and reuse potential in a city's wastewater and their financial values.
SEI brief / A new tool developed by SEI's Bolivia WATCH team integrates sanitation and hygiene considerations into watershed planning.
Design and development by Soapbox.
