Pictures
This illustration of the design for an innovative multiple use water supply system that was recently constructed in the hills of Nepal. It included two storage tanks linked to a spring source, the first for domestic water and the second, only filled after domestic demands are met, for small-scale irrigation. There are two separate piped networks to supply houses and small irrigated plots where efficient drip irrigation techniques are utilised.
For more information contact Deepak Adhikari of IDE-Nepal at dadhikari@idenepal.org.np
This cartoon from a new publication from IRC on cost recovery shows how willingness to pay for domestic water supplies is sometimes linked to their use in garden irrigation.
Source: Planning for sustainable cost recovery in community-based water supply services: A training package for managers (2005) by Catarina Fonseca, Francois Brikke and Evariste Kouassi Komlan. More details are available from publications@irc.nl