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1 Rao, Krishna C.; Kvarnstrom, E.; Di Mario, L.; Drechsel, Pay. 2016. Business models for fecal sludge management. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 80p. (Resource Recovery and Reuse Series 06) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2016.213]
Faecal sludge ; Resource management ; Resource recovery ; Recycling ; Business management ; Models ; Waste disposal ; Desludging ; Dumping ; Sewerage ; Waste treatment ; Waste water treatment plants ; Solid wastes ; Pollution ; Composts ; Public health ; Sanitation ; Latrines ; Defaecation ; Stakeholders ; Finance ; Cost recovery ; Energy recovery ; Biogas ; Organic fertilizers ; Private enterprises ; Institutions ; Partnerships ; Licences ; Regulations ; Transport ; Septic tanks ; Nutrients ; Taxes ; Farmers ; Urban areas ; Landscape ; Household ; Incentives ; Case studies / Asia / Africa / Latin America / South Africa / Kenya / India / Rwanda / Nepal / Philippines / Lesotho / Bangladesh / Mozambique / Ghana / Senegal / Benin / Sierra Leone / Malaysia / Ethiopia / Vietnam / Mali / Sri Lanka / Burkina Faso / Peru / Haiti / Dakar / Nairobi / Maseru / Accra / Tamale / Addis Ababa / Eastern Cape / Maputo / Dhaka / Ho Chi Minh City / Hai Phong / Dumaguete / Mombasa / Kisumu / San Fernando / Bamako / Cotonou / Ouagadougou / Kigali / Bangalore / Dharwad / Balangoda
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047826)
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On-site sanitation systems, such as septic tanks and pit latrines, are the predominant feature across rural and urban areas in most developing countries. However, their management is one of the most neglected sanitation challenges. While under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the set-up of toilet systems received the most attention, business models for the sanitation service chain, including pit desludging, sludge transport, treatment and disposal or resource recovery, are only emerging. Based on the analysis of over 40 fecal sludge management (FSM) cases from Asia, Africa and Latin America, this report shows opportunities as well as bottlenecks that FSM is facing from an institutional and entrepreneurial perspective.
2 Nhlengethwa, Sibusiso; Matchaya, Greenwell; Greffiths, Jacob; Fakudze, Bhekiwe. 2020. Maize flour price trends in rural districts and urban districts of Lesotho under COVID-19. AKADEMIYA2063: Covid-19 Bulletin, 15:1-5.
Maize ; Corn flour ; Food prices ; Forecasting ; Economic trends ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Markets ; COVID-19 ; Pandemics ; Travel restrictions / Lesotho / Berea / Maseru / Mokhotlong / Thaba-Tseka
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050168)
https://akademiya2063.org/uploads/Covid-19-Bulletin-015.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050168.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050168.pdf
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This bulletin focuses on the relationship between maize flour price trends and the actions in response to COVID-19 Pandemic in Lesotho. An understanding of food price movement is important for providing guidance on policy interventions that would ensure food security among households and the country at large.
3 Mokhesuoe, F.; Gumindoga, W.; Molete, S. F. 2023. Wetland water balance assessment: a case study of the Sosa Wetland, Maseru, Lesotho. Water Practice and Technology, 18(3):738-752. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2023.013]
Wetlands ; Water balance ; Assessment ; Land use ; Land cover ; Evapotranspiration ; Vegetation ; Precipitation ; Grasslands ; Cultivation ; Stream flow ; Models ; Case studies / South Africa / Lesotho / Maseru / Sosa Wetland
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051915)
https://iwaponline.com/wpt/article-pdf/18/3/738/1198007/wpt0180738.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051915.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051915.pdf
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The Sosa wetland is a sensitive wetland, situated at the headwaters of the Jordan catchment in Maseru. Due to unregulated land use activities in the past decades (2010–2020), the Sosa wetland nearly dried up. Therefore, this study performed a wetland water balance of the Sosa wetland in Lesotho for the period of 1975–2020 using GIS and remote sensing. Landsat imageries of 1975–2020 were used for land use and land cover while the Penman -Monteith and Thornthwaite methods were used to estimate evapotranspiration. Results show that water/marsh, cultivation, settlements and bare-land increased by 2.04, 4.1, 5.82 and 28.71%, respectively, from 1975 to 2020. Forest and shrubs as well as grasslands decreased by 38.83 and 1.76%, respectively, from 1975 to 2020. Evapotranspiration estimates for the period 1984–2020 were in the range of 900 -1,071 mm/year which is substantially greater than the annual mean rainfall of the catchment which ranges from 550 to 850 mm/year. The most sensitive wetlands are found in the middle reach of the catchment and at the headwaters occupying about 16.03% of the catchment, whereas moderately sensitive wetlands occupy 39.75%. The water balance closure as a ratio of rainfall received ranged from -3.13 to -3.5.
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