Bolivia WATCH: An Integrated Approach to Ensuring Clean and Available Water

SEI experts explain how a new project will help Bolivia connect sanitation with watershed management.

View of Tupiza City, which sits in one of the watersheds where Bolivia WATCH will focus its efforts. (Photo: Jeanne Fernandez / SEI)

Each year, more than $13 billion (USD) in international aid goes to water projects. The vast majority is spent on infrastructure to ensure safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).

Less often considered is the watershed that supplies the water that runs through that infrastructure – and whether actions and policies are needed to ensure sufficient water as conditions related to climate, land-use, demographics and economic development change in the future.

SEI will help connect these two areas – WASH and watersheds – in a new project, Bolivia WATCH, that will focus on three pilot watersheds in Bolivia. Once complete, the effort will serve as a blueprint for how other regions and countries can integrate watershed management efforts and innovative sanitation interventions to ensure adequate water quality and supply for all water users in a watershed.

In the Q&A session published by the Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI experts explain why this integration is crucial for sustainability and how water resource planning can help WASH investments. Proceed to the Institute's website to read what they have to say. 

Source: SEI

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• Watershed Management
• Sanitation
• Watershed
• Sustainable Sanitation
• Water & Sanitation
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• Sanitation Services
• Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)