NRC National Resource Centre

The National Resource Centre (NRC) of NGO Forum is a knowledge management and dissemination centre serving as a national memory bank in the WatSan sector which also functions as a one-stop mall with the objectives of collecting, documenting and sharing of information relevant to the sector.

ASIA: Water is a good servant but a bad master: The floods in northwest Pakistan could be a taste of things to come. A recent report warns that in the next two decades factors like climate change could worsen water-related humanitarian crises.

The waters of the Third Pole, produced by the Humanitarian Futures Programme at King's College, London, said the region was not prepared to deal with such crises.

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40 percent of world population do not use improved sanitation facilities: Access to safe water and hygienic sanitation are fundamental to good health. In 2008, 2.6 billion people – 40 percent of the world’s population -- had no access to improved sanitation facilities. Every year, 1.5 million children die due to diarrhea caused by the combined effects of inadequate sanitation, unsafe water supply, and poor personal hygiene.
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General Assembly declares access to clean water and sanitation is a human right: Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared today, voicing deep concern that almost 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water. Read more
Improving management of urban wastewater use in agriculture, Rajshahi, Bangladesh CLARE ROBINSON, ALEXANDRA E.V. EVANS and RIZWAN AHMED: Untreated wastewater is used informally for irrigation in many developing countries. This use needs to be managed to reduce the risks while maintaining its benefi ts. This paper documents the experience and lessons from a project in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, that aimed to do this. In line with the ‘multi-barrier approach’ advocated by the World Health Organization, a learning alliance approach was adopted whereby local stakeholders were brought together to analyse the issues, and implement a participatory action plan to deal effectively with the wastewater problem. Download full publication
Mikhail Gorbachev – The Right to Water & Sanitation: The United Nations estimates that nearly 900 million people live without clean water and 2.6 billion without proper sanitation. Water, the basic ingredient of life, is among the world’s most prolific killers. At least 4,000 children die every day from water-related diseases. In fact, more lives have been lost after World War II due to contaminated water than from all forms of violence and war. Read more
The Toll of Good Intentions Gone Wrong: Forty years ago, Bangladesh was facing a health crisis. Contamination of water sources throughout the country were causing an incredibly high rate of child mortality, with more than a quarter-million children dying each year from waterborne infectious diseases. As a solution, international charity organizations launched a massive humanitarian effort to bring cleaner water to the Bangladeshis, installing roughly 10 million hand-pumped wells that brought up water from deep underground. Read more
Water Providers Concerned about Climate Change Impact on Services to People in Developing Countries: Many urban water utilities in developing countries lack the information and resources necessary to adapt to adverse impacts from changes in climate, according to a new report from the World Bank and the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).

In the report, Climate Change and Urban Water Utilities: Challenges & Opportunities,
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One year passed, 'Aila' victims still suffering: In May 25, on the day last year an unprecedented natural disaster 'Aila' devastated the South-Western region of the country causing deaths to hundreds of people and damaging a vast tract with unparallel ferocity.

Even after one year of the calamity, the people of greater Khulna and Satkhira districts could not return to normal life by overcoming their sufferings and helplessly they remember the day when nature' fury came down on them. Read more
WATER MINISTERS: impacts of neglecting investment in sanitation and water under-estimated: The social, health and economic impacts of neglecting investment in sanitation and water have been under-estimated. Poor sanitation and water trigger a downward slide into poverty, where the sector economic impact is often found to be excess of 5% GDP. Read more

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