@conference {327, title = {Limpopo general - relevance of multiple uses of water for the SADC region}, year = {Submitted}, abstract = {

At the 7th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium, held in Lilongwe, Malawi from 1-3 November 2006, the MUS project hosted a special session on multiple uses of water. A background paper was prepared to look into the relevance of mus in the SADC region, especially into the implications for researchers in the region. A short report of the session is also available.

}, author = {Stef Smits and Tessa Cousins and Vusi Dlamini and Edward Guzha and Barbara van Koppen} } @inbook {556, title = {Scaling Up MUS; Accountability in public water sector performance for health and wealth}, year = {Submitted}, abstract = {

This book analyses and explains the success factors of MUS, using a framework of accountability for public service delivery, and examines why there has been resistance against scaling up MUS.

}, author = {Barbara van Koppen and Stef Smits and Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio and John B. Thomas} } @article {314, title = {Zimbabwe- Institutional learning about multiple use services through the learning alliance approach}, year = {Submitted}, abstract = {

This report analyses the learning alliance approache followed as method for institutional learning about multiple uses in Zimbabwe. It mainly consisted of working with national stakeholders, in the form of stimulating exchange and consolidation of experiences between them.

}, author = {Fungai Makoni and Stef Smits and Innocent Shoshore and Max Jonga} } @book {371, title = {Global: Climbing the Water Ladder - Multiple-Use Water Services for Poverty Reduction}, year = {2009}, abstract = {

Sustained access to water in low- and middle-income countries is crucial for domestic use (drinking, personal hygiene, etc.) and is also an imperative for people{\textquoteright}s livelihoods, income-generating activities and small-scale enterprise (e.g. livestock, horticulture, irrigation, fisheries, brickmaking, and othes). Overall, this book exposes the detrimental effects and impacts of approaching water services in isolated ways -- where the continued practise of separating community water services between domestic use and livelihoods have done little in alleviating poverty.

Available in English and espagnol (Ascendiendo la escala de agua).

}, author = {Barbara van Koppen and Stef Smits and Patrick Moriarty and F.W.T Penning de Vries and M. Mikhail and E. Boelee} } @conference {600, title = {Community-level multiple-use water services: MUS to climb the water ladder}, year = {2008}, abstract = {

The Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) project PN28 developed and tested {\textquoteleft}multiple-use water services{\textquoteright} ({\textquoteleft}MUS{\textquoteright}). This approach to water services takes multiple water needs of rural and periurban communities as the starting point for planning and designing new systems or rehabilitations. By overcoming the administrative boundaries between single-use sectors, MUS contributes more sustainably to more dimensions of well-being than single-use approaches: health, freedom from drudgery, food, and income. The action-research took place in 25 study areas in eight countries in five basins. The project brought global, national, intermediate level, and local partners together who were champions of MUS at the time. At the community level, the project identified generic models for implementing MUS. This was done through pilotimplementation of innovative multiple-use water services, and by analyzing de facto multiple uses of singleuse planned systems. At the intermediate, national, and global level, the project{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteleft}learning alliances{\textquoteright} engaged in the wide upscaling of these community-level MUS models, with the aim of establishing an enabling environment to provide every rural and periurban water user with water for multiple uses. This paper presents some of the project findings.

}, author = {Barbara van Koppen and Stef Smits and Patrick Moriarty and Frits Penning de Vries} }