Management Guide

Access to adequate water, sanitation, drainage and solid waste disposal are four inter-related basic needs which impact significantly on socio-economic development and quality of life. The number of people around the world who still do not have to access to these basic facilities, despite enormous global effort over more than two decades, provides sufficient evidence that conventional approaches and solutions alone are unable to make a sufficient dent in the service backlog which still exists. Numerous initiatives are on going at different levels to improve strategies, technologies, institutional arrangement, socio-culture anchorage, and cost effectiveness, all to enhance efficiency and eventually, to have an impact on the sector's goals. In addition, the ever-increasing of water resource management. This series of manuals is intended as a contribution to these efforts.