===Approaches to Make Wash Environmentally Sustainable===
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|<font size="3">Ecosystem Restoration</font>
|style="border: 1px solid #d3d3d3"|A range of ecosystem restoration measures can be taken to support WASH services and livelihoods:
'''Combining water and land management'''<br>
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|<font size="3">Rain Water Harvesting: Recharge, Retention, Reuse</font>
|style="border: 1px solid #d3d3d3"|Recharge, Retain, Reuse (3R) of rainwater is one sustainable and environmentally friendly way to provide people with water. 3R allows you to use the catchment itself as a buffer to store water without having to apply expensive and environmentally unfriendly technical solutions. 3R stands for the three elements required to store, manage and utilise water:
* Recharging water involves the application of techniques for restoring groundwater levels through letting rainwater penetrate back into the ground.
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|<font size="3">Reduce, Reuse, Recycle of Waste (Flows)</font>
|style="border: 1px solid #d3d3d3"|Incorporating Reduce, Reuse and Recycle practices in your WASH project can help you to:
* Reduce contamination and spillage
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|<font size="3">Low Cost, Low Maintenance and Environmentally Friendly Technologies</font>
|style="border: 1px solid #d3d3d3"|When dealing with water and sanitation, a wide range of technologies are at hand. To choose the right technology, you need to take into account the outcome of your landscape assessment. Depending on this outcome, a combination of natural and man-made solutions can be selected. At the same time, it is important to consider the costs, maintenance requirements and environmental friendliness of the technologies. Choosing sustainable drinking water and sanitation technologies requires awareness on the following five aspects:
* The costs of the technologies. It is wise to make use of options that can be locally financed and that are already available on the local market.
