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Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2002
The allocation of water to previously disadvantaged sectors is an important concern throughout So... more The allocation of water to previously disadvantaged sectors is an important concern throughout South Africa. In drier areas where available water resources are heavily utilised, such as the Sand River Catchment, this represents an even greater challenge. This paper addresses how catchment management reforms are being implemented to improve the allocation of water resources in South Africa, using the Sand as a case-study. It argues that as well as supporting emerging farmers to engage in small-scale irrigation, more emphasis needs to be given to the rural water supply sector and especially productive uses of domestic water at a household level (to support activities such as backyard irrigation, beer brewing, brick-making and construction). The paper considers: how the needs for water to support rural livelihoods can be articulated (to achieve policy changes) and supplies improved to promote productive water uses (given technical, economic, resource and other constraints); where addit...
The water needs of people living in rural areas are integrated, and take into account personal hy... more The water needs of people living in rural areas are integrated, and take into account personal hygiene, drinking water, food preparation and small scale productive activities. These activities are all important to provide food security, income and reduce the vulnerability of poor people. The interventions made by water supply projects that follow national policies and regulations in Colombia are, like in many other countries, fragmented and usually neglect innovative approaches. Innovative approaches that consider all basic water related activities linked to livelihoods can make a significant difference to household economies in poor areas. This paper presents evidence on how families manage water in rural areas of the Valle del Cauca Department (Colombia), and how this reality has been ignored by national policies and regulation. Proposals to reduce the gap between rural practice and policies for this sector are also suggested. These recommendations should help policy makers to tak...
This paper discusses experiences within the Sustainable Water Improves Tomorrow’s Cities’ Health ... more This paper discusses experiences within the Sustainable Water Improves Tomorrow’s Cities’ Health (SWITCH) consortium - a research partnership focused on long-term improvements in urban water management in developed and developing countries - to apply innovative research methodologies that may lead to more effective urban water science and wider and more integrated use of research findings. It introduces learning alliances as an attempt to build multi-stakeholder partnerships for demand-led research and the scaling-up of research impacts, and several related tools used to date to underpin an action research process: visioning and scenario-based planning with stakeholders, scoring ladders to monitor outcomes, process documentation to record change and matrix management to guide a diverse consortium. Examples drawn from the SWITCH project illustrate successes and failures from which the project aims to learn and improve its own effectiveness.
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 2016
This paper presents findings on water and sanitation service levels from 16 small and medium town... more This paper presents findings on water and sanitation service levels from 16 small and medium towns in four regions of Ethiopia. In these settlements, the proportion of people with access to improved water and sanitation services is found to be high and consistent with other major datasets and reports for urban Ethiopia. However, when service characteristics such as reliability, quality, quantity and accessibility (including travel and queuing time) of water are considered, and for sanitation, quality and use, a different picture emerges. Only a small minority of households, 9% for water and 3% for sanitation, were found to receive services that meet the standards set in the Ethiopian government's first Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP I). Under the second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II), standards for urban water services have been set higher and current performance levels are even lower. This paper illustrates the discrepancies between average coverage figures, actua...
U4 Practice Insight, 2014
Water alternatives, 2013
Behind headline successes in providing first-time access to water lie a number of pressing challe... more Behind headline successes in providing first-time access to water lie a number of pressing challenges to the dominant approach to rural water supply in developing countries, namely community management following a demand-responsive approach. These challenges manifest themselves in poor performance of service providers, high rates of hardware failure, and very low levels of service. The papers in this special issue argue that tackling these challenges requires a shift in emphasis in rural water supply in developing countries: away from a de-facto focus on the provision of hardware for first-time access towards the proper use of installed hardware as the basis for universal access to rural water services. The outline of the main actions required to achieve this shift are becoming clearer. Chief amongst these are the professionalisation of community management and/or provision of direct support to community service providers; adoption of a wider range of service delivery models than co...
Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2002
The allocation of water to previously disadvantaged sectors is an important concern throughout So... more The allocation of water to previously disadvantaged sectors is an important concern throughout South Africa. In drier areas where available water resources are heavily utilised, such as the Sand River Catchment, this represents an even greater challenge. This paper addresses how catchment management reforms are being implemented to improve the allocation of water resources in South Africa, using the Sand as a case-study. It argues that as well as supporting emerging farmers to engage in small-scale irrigation, more emphasis needs to be given to the rural water supply sector and especially productive uses of domestic water at a household level (to support activities such as backyard irrigation, beer brewing, brick-making and construction). The paper considers: how the needs for water to support rural livelihoods can be articulated (to achieve policy changes) and supplies improved to promote productive water uses (given technical, economic, resource and other constraints); where addit...
The water needs of people living in rural areas are integrated, and take into account personal hy... more The water needs of people living in rural areas are integrated, and take into account personal hygiene, drinking water, food preparation and small scale productive activities. These activities are all important to provide food security, income and reduce the vulnerability of poor people. The interventions made by water supply projects that follow national policies and regulations in Colombia are, like in many other countries, fragmented and usually neglect innovative approaches. Innovative approaches that consider all basic water related activities linked to livelihoods can make a significant difference to household economies in poor areas. This paper presents evidence on how families manage water in rural areas of the Valle del Cauca Department (Colombia), and how this reality has been ignored by national policies and regulation. Proposals to reduce the gap between rural practice and policies for this sector are also suggested. These recommendations should help policy makers to tak...
This paper discusses experiences within the Sustainable Water Improves Tomorrow’s Cities’ Health ... more This paper discusses experiences within the Sustainable Water Improves Tomorrow’s Cities’ Health (SWITCH) consortium - a research partnership focused on long-term improvements in urban water management in developed and developing countries - to apply innovative research methodologies that may lead to more effective urban water science and wider and more integrated use of research findings. It introduces learning alliances as an attempt to build multi-stakeholder partnerships for demand-led research and the scaling-up of research impacts, and several related tools used to date to underpin an action research process: visioning and scenario-based planning with stakeholders, scoring ladders to monitor outcomes, process documentation to record change and matrix management to guide a diverse consortium. Examples drawn from the SWITCH project illustrate successes and failures from which the project aims to learn and improve its own effectiveness.
Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 2016
This paper presents findings on water and sanitation service levels from 16 small and medium town... more This paper presents findings on water and sanitation service levels from 16 small and medium towns in four regions of Ethiopia. In these settlements, the proportion of people with access to improved water and sanitation services is found to be high and consistent with other major datasets and reports for urban Ethiopia. However, when service characteristics such as reliability, quality, quantity and accessibility (including travel and queuing time) of water are considered, and for sanitation, quality and use, a different picture emerges. Only a small minority of households, 9% for water and 3% for sanitation, were found to receive services that meet the standards set in the Ethiopian government's first Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP I). Under the second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II), standards for urban water services have been set higher and current performance levels are even lower. This paper illustrates the discrepancies between average coverage figures, actua...
U4 Practice Insight, 2014
Water alternatives, 2013
Behind headline successes in providing first-time access to water lie a number of pressing challe... more Behind headline successes in providing first-time access to water lie a number of pressing challenges to the dominant approach to rural water supply in developing countries, namely community management following a demand-responsive approach. These challenges manifest themselves in poor performance of service providers, high rates of hardware failure, and very low levels of service. The papers in this special issue argue that tackling these challenges requires a shift in emphasis in rural water supply in developing countries: away from a de-facto focus on the provision of hardware for first-time access towards the proper use of installed hardware as the basis for universal access to rural water services. The outline of the main actions required to achieve this shift are becoming clearer. Chief amongst these are the professionalisation of community management and/or provision of direct support to community service providers; adoption of a wider range of service delivery models than co...
This paper considers the role of local government in water resources management and how this role... more This paper considers the role of local government in water resources management and how this role is changing in response to recent policy changes such as decentralisation, and the reform of water laws and institutions. The paper suggests two main ways in which local government can respond: 1) through direct participation in water resources management institutions, and 2) by applying IWRM principles through local actions. These two approaches are not mutually exclusive and should be followed simultaneously. Some of the challenges in local government improving their water-related functions, and especially governance issues, are highlighted using the example of Bolivia.
This paper argues that small-scale productive uses of water such as for garden irrigation, keepin... more This paper argues that small-scale productive uses of water such as for garden irrigation, keeping livestock, post-harvest crop processing and other micro-enterprises should receive better consideration in the planning of domestic water supply systems. Currently opportunities are being lost to maximize the impacts on poverty alleviation of improvements in water supply, and sustainability is undermined by failing to address the productive needs of users. An agenda for possible policy change, implementation actions and further research is included based upon the outcomes of an earlier international symposium.
Water …, 2010
Butterworth, J.; Warner, J.; Moriarty, P.; Smits, S. and Batchelor, C. 2010. Finding practical ap... more Butterworth, J.; Warner, J.; Moriarty, P.; Smits, S. and Batchelor, C. 2010. Finding practical approaches to Integrated Water Resources Management . Water Alternatives 3(1): 68-81 ... Butterworth et al.: Finding practical approaches to IWRM ... Finding Practical Approaches to Integrated ...
Proceedings of the IEEE, 1998
Journal of Disability Policy Studies
People with intellectual disability, autism, and other developmental disabilities have successful... more People with intellectual disability, autism, and other developmental disabilities have successfully demonstrated their ability to work in the general labor market. Yet, their employment rate remains substantially lower compared with the general population without disabilities. Scaling up the employment outcomes of this population requires improving the effectiveness and efficiency of employment support systems. To this end, this article recommends supporting employment providers rethink how they use their management information systems (MIS): from primary tools that automate billing and compliance, to tools that track metrics for continuous quality improvement. As federal and state funding policies are the main factors shaping how MIS are currently used, this article recommends that federal and state policy guidelines be issued that enable employment providers to leverage their MIS to improve effectiveness and efficiency, and thus scale up employment outcomes of job seekers.
Chest, 1995
Page 1. DOI 10.1378/chest.108.5.1373 1995;108;1373-1379 Chest Vicki E. Modest and John F. Butterw... more Page 1. DOI 10.1378/chest.108.5.1373 1995;108;1373-1379 Chest Vicki E. Modest and John F. Butterworth IV Interaction During Resuscitation? -Adrenergic Receptor Binding : β Effect of pH and Lidocaine on http://chestjournal ...
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Jun 1, 2007
2010 - MILCOM 2010 MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, 2010
In the lower echelon tactical environment, Situational Awareness (SA) information must be passed ... more In the lower echelon tactical environment, Situational Awareness (SA) information must be passed up the chain of command from squad-level infantry to platoon networks. The challenge is that the squad-level infantry networks typically operate at lower classification levels than the platoon command and control (C2) networks, which need information sent from below. A wearable one-way transfer (WOWT) device allows formatted