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Traditionally, watershed management and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) have been governed in isolated silos.
The Bolivia WATCH team at SEI developed a tool to integrate both worlds into a single planning process, accounting for household- and community-level needs alike.
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Water quality and sanitation issues persist throughout the world, and in many cases, WASH actions are not integrated into watershed planning.
A typical Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) model integrates aggregated values of community-level demands; therefore, within this approach, it is difficult to determine the household-level water supply situation at any given moment. Additionally, most models do not consider sanitation, leaving behind the analysis related to environmental contamination due to pollution from inadequate sanitation systems.
WASH Flows, a new tool developed by the Bolivia WATCH team, aims to combine all goals into a single planning process, encompassing all water supply sources.
This brief describes the need for and utility of WASH Flows and presents a case study from Bolivia’s Tupiza watershed.
This brief was previously published August 2022 as a pre-print.
Project / Bolivia WATCH preparará a las instituciones del país con la información y la capacidad para conectar saneamiento seguro y gestión de cuencas hidrográficas.
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 / The empowerment in WASH index (EWI) project measures empowerment and social inclusion of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions.
Feature / Join our SEI-hosted sessions at World Water Week from 23 August-1 September both in-person and online to discuss sanitation, biodiversity, climate and the SDGs.
Past event / SEI researchers explore supply, demand, and source-water preservation alternatives for the urban water system in Bolivia to achieve SDG 6.
Feature / SEI experts explain how a new project will help Bolivia connect sanitation with watershed management.
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