sanitation and hygiene

Between October 2016 and March 2019, the Freetown WASH Consortium, led by Oxfam with Against Hunger, Concern Worldwide and Save the Children as members, carried out the ‘Improved WASH Services in Western Area Urban (WAU) and Western Area Rural (WAR) Districts’ project. Broadly, the project aimed to improve the availability, accessibility, affordability and sustainability of […]

The city of Cape Town in South Africa successfully reduced its water use by more than half in three years. The case demonstrates that resource consumption can be reduced substantially and maintained at lower levels over a long period of time, at least in the face of an imminent threat of shortages.Cape Town’sexperience is directly […]