Water Portal

The water portal illustrates a selection of smart water technologies. We are working on making this portal comprehensive and contain full explanations on how to implement these technologies, complete with lots of reference manuals and links.

For help with selecting the right water technologies below, try our new Water Compass! It is a decision support tool.
To help manage drought, using water resource technologies and other strategies: Resilient WASH systems in drought-prone areas.

Sources & Recharge

Water Lifting Devices

Treatment & Testing

Storage & Distribution

Productive Use

Rainwater harvesting - general

Surface water - general

Groundwater recharge - general

Ground Catchment - general

Groundwater access - general

Manual drilling or digging - general

Bucket and basket lifts - general

Household and community pumps - Shallow, 0-20m

Household and community pumps - Medium, 20-50m

Household and community pumps - Deep, 50-100m

Powered pumps - general

Gravity-powered

Irrigation pumps - general

HWTS - Chemical - general

HWTS - Filtration - general

HWTS - Physical - general

CT - Chemical - general

CT - Filtration - general

CT - Physical - general

Testing - general

Commercial treatment
and testing systems

Centralized treatment

Elevated storage tanks - general

Surface level tanks - general

Below ground tanks - general

Natural storage basins - general

Distribution - general

Solar water heater tank

Surface irrigation - general

Bucket / Farm kits
and Drum systems

Localized irrigation

Finger pond

Spirulina farming

Pond farming

Tilapia farming

Contour ridges

Field experiences

The following projects are utilizing water resource methods.


RSR Project 830 Scanning and Mapping the WASH Situation	RSR Project 469 Implementing an IWRM process in Mashuru	RSR Project 366 WASH Sustainability through Women Led MFI	RSR Project 488 Community-based WASH Project in Nepal	RSR Project 935 Community Health and Development Project