Infrastructure Development

According to the UN, large numbers of people in developing countries still lack access to basic infrastructure services. Continued lack of access will constrain achievements of any development goals agreed for the post-2015 period. Resources available in this sub-theme include project summaries and successes of past infrastructure development projects, technical and field guidance on infrastructure development, and other resources that can help to develop effective WASH infrastructure.

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Infrastructure Development Resources

Energy Management Consultation and Training Project (EMCAT): Demand-Side Management/Project Management -- Municipal Water Pumping: Bangalore (Karnakata) India -- Trip Report

Published: 
March 1, 1997
U.S. Agency for International Development
The design capacity for the city is currently 705 million liters per day. But the total capacity is not available because of low water levels at the sources, equipment problems, and electrical shortages. Of the 705 million liters per day design capacity, only 486 million liters per day were...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndiaSouth East Asia

Energy Management Consultation and Training Project (EMCAT): Demand-Side Management/Project Management -- Municipal Water Pumping: Tiruppur (Tamil Nadu), India -- Trip Report

Published: 
March 1, 1997
U.S. Agency for International Development
This demonstration project's components include water supply, municipal sewerage treatment, effluent treatment plant, road improvement, land development and telecommunications. In July 1995, USAlD approved twenty-five million dollars in finding support for the water supply and municipal...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndiaSouth East Asia

Operation and Maintenance Manual: Kosaman and Berdykol Wellfields

Published: 
September 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
The document provides a manual and handbook guide for a variety of plumbing categories. Read more
Regional focus: 
KazakhstanEurope and Central Asia

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program: Chicualacuala, Chigubo, Guija, Mabalane and Massangena Districts, Gaza Province [Mozambique]: Final Report

Published: 
December 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
World Relief's Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program (RWSSP) was a direct follow on from the 1992193 Emergency Water Supply lntervention on (EWSI) along the Limpopo Corridor in response to a continued severe shortage of water in the districts of northern Gaza It sought ultimately to...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

EPT Field Report -- Water Quality Laboratory Training Manual Summary: Sanitary and Epidemiological Services Laboratory, Kzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan

Published: 
February 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Aral Sea Program is intended to provide technical assistance and material for improvements in potable water quality through a series of activities that include water monitoring improvements (laboratory equipment and materials), water quality improvements (chlorination equipment), water delivery...Read more
Regional focus: 
KazakhstanEurope and Central Asia

Kazakhstan Field Report -- Proposed Chlorination System Improvements At Regional Water Systems: Kyzl Orda Oblast, Kazakhstan

Published: 
January 1, 1995
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Environmental Policy and Technology Project (EPT) Field Report "Interim Field . Investigations in Kazakhstan: Regional Water Systems in Kzyl-Orda Oblast" dated October 1994 included recommendations for providing a variety of new equipment to upgrade and improve the regional water...Read more
Regional focus: 
KazakhstanEurope and Central Asia

Interim Field Investigations in Kazakhstan: Regional Water Systems in Kyzl Orda Oblast -- Trip Conducted May-June 1994

Published: 
October 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report summarizes the findings of a field visit to Kzyl Orda Oblast in western Kazakhstan, conducted in May and June 1994, by an Environmental Policy and Technology(EPT) Project team. the trip's purpose was to define the Scope of Work for the implementation activities included in the...Read more
Regional focus: 
KazakhstanEurope and Central Asia

Final Report -- Assessment of the Institutional Environment of the Environmental Infrastructure Unit: Recommendations for Operational Guidelines, Staffing, and Technical Assistance and Training

Published: 
March 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
USAID's Mission to Sri Lanka began implementing the Promotion of Private Infrastructure (PPI) Project in 1992. The PPI Project will provide U.S. $8 million in grant funds over a four0year period to assist the GSL in developing a market to attract private financing, construction, and management...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sri LankaSouth East Asia

Operation Blessing International: Quarterly Report to Aid, April-June 1993

Published: 
August 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
This is a quarterly report to AID from Operations Blessing International. It details the progress of the water well project in Romania in 1993.Read more
Regional focus: 
RomaniaEurope and Central Asia

AID Grant No. 615-0236-G-00-3045-00 to Plan International USA to Increase Community Usership of Borehole Water and Encourage Sustainable Maintenance of The Boreholes in Kenya

Published: 
July 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Grant is provided under the PVO Co-Financing Project to Plan International for a follow-on project to develop community-based water organizations at 120 borehole sites in Kenya. The 120 boreholes were drilled by PLAN during Phase I. to develop community water organizations that are capable of...Read more
Regional focus: 
KenyaSub-Saharan Africa

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