Water supply and access to drinking water

Today, nearly a billion people in the world are food-insecure-- without access to enough nutritious food to lead healthy and active lives. Many food-insecure people are also water-insecure, without enough readily available water to meet their needs. This webinar will introduce the overall challenge of ensuring sustainable global food and water security in the wake of population and income increases, a changing climate and the growing demand for water resources, with a special focus on practical ways to improve water use and management in agricultural and food systems

Today, nearly a billion people in the world are food-insecure-- without access to enough nutritious food to lead healthy and active lives. Many food-insecure people are also water-insecure, without enough readily available water to meet their needs. This webinar will introduce the overall challenge of ensuring sustainable global food and water security in the wake of population and income increases, a changing climate and the growing demand for water resources, with a special focus on practical ways to improve water use and management in agricultural and food systems

The Turin School of Local Regulation (www.turinschool.eu [1]) announces the launch of the 18th Edition of the International Summer School on Regulation of Local Public Services. The programme is designed as an intensive workshop, combining theoretical and practical courses. More specifically it is divided into three parts: theory, economic models and analytical instruments for local regulation; sector analysis (e.g. water cycle, urban waste) and country-based cases studies; local site-visits and a practical experience with virtual regulatory case studies developed by working groups. [1] http://www.turinschool.eu/

Manual drilling is here to stay, and it is growing. There has been a tremendous upsurge in the use of groundwater for drinking water supplies in Africa over the last ten years. Recent estimates suggest that the number of people on the continent relying on borehole with handpump or on hand dug wells has doubled from 75 to 150 million in the past ten years. This webinar will examine some of the main concerns about the spread of the technology, drawing particularly on lessons from Nigeria and Chad.