Productivity and Efficiency

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, water efficiency is the smart use of our water resources through water-saving technologies and simple steps. Using water efficiently will help ensure reliable water supplies today and for future generations. Topics addressed in this theme provide insights, lessons, and guidance on how diverse stakeholders are working to improve water management and reduce water use.

Productivity and Efficiency Resources

Lampung Brackish Water Pond Project; Feasibility Study

Published: 
November 18, 1976
U.S. Agency for International Development
On June 9, 1976 the United States Agency for International Development signed a contract with Cheechi and Company to conduct a feasibility study of a pilot brackish water fisheries project in Indonesia. This report documents the findings of the specialists who participated in the study.Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaEast Asia and Pacific

Sector Environmental Guideline: Dry land Agriculture

Published: 
March 18, 2014
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this document and the Sector Environmental Guidelines overall is to support environmentally sound design and management (ESDM) of common USAID sectorial development activities by providing concise, plain-language information. This guideline details how conservation agriculture, rain...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Effects of California's Urban Forests on Energy Use and Potential Savings from Large-Scale Tree Planting

Published: 
June 18, 2014
The National Institutes for Water Resources
The study describes the role of existing urban forests as "nature's air conditioners" and estimates the value of energy benefits that would result over a 15-year time period from large-scale planting of empty sites. Information in this study may be used to justify investment in...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Final Report, June 1988 to May 1991: The Importance of Mangroves in Sustaining Fisheries and Controlling Water Quality in Coastal Ecosystems

U.S. Agency for International Development
This final report describes an ecosystem analysis of Guayas River estuary, Ecuador, along with ecological studies in Terminos Lagoon, Mexico, to quantify the function of mangroves in different environmental settings. Mangroves may provide food and habitat to a variety of trophic levels, as well as...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Neglected Opportunities in Irrigation

U.S. Agency for International Development
This article considers two different programs which attempt to improve water use and management in eastern India. One concerns the Hirukud project, which irrigates 282,000 acres in the Sambalpur district of Orissa; the other is in the Raipur district, just west of Sambalpur in Madhaya Pradesh. Both...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndiaSouth East Asia

Armenia - Water to Market Post-Harvest Processing

Published: 
March 27, 2014
Millennium Challenge Corporation
The Enterprise Adoption Survey (EAS) was a one-time survey commissioned by MCA-Armenia to measure assistance, practices, and improvements associated with the Post-Harvest, Processing and Marketing (PPM) Subactivity of the Water-to- Market (WtM) Activity of the MCA-Armenia Program. The sample frame...Read more
Regional focus: 
Armenia

CH2M HILL Access Water Blog

CH2M HILL
CH2M HILL’s social media resource provides innovation and insight on all things water. Access Water keeps you up-to-date with the latest water industry news, technology and projects.Read more

Water Tools for Business

CH2M HILL
CH2M HILL has worked with global business organizations and companies to develop the world’s leading water tools that help individual companies across sectors identify their most significant water-related risks both globally and locally and the steps they should take to cost-effectively manage risk...Read more

Empire Generating Power Plant/City of Albany Wastewater Reuse Project

CH2M HILL
Water Reuse Case Study – Empire Generating Power Plant in New York. The plant is conserving fresh water consumption by as much as 4,800 gallons per minute thanks to water reuse.Read more

Water-Energy Nexus Infographic

Published: 
September 22, 2014
CH2M HILL
How are water & energy connected? This infographic, created in support of the United Nation’s 2014 World Water Day, highlights the relationship between water and energy.Read more

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