IRC’s Digital Library is unique in the WASH sector. It has 13,000 full text documents ready to use and is daily updated. Information can be retrieved by subject, author, title, publisher, date and type of publication.
This literature database contains about1,400 documents on ecosan with the oldest document being from 1974. The database is accessible through a search engine on the GIZ website.
Own resources from the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University, UK are available as download free of charge. These include 150 books, over 1,700 conference papers and hundreds of other key knowledge outputs in water, sanitation and infrastructure. WEDC aims to meet the needs and demands for knowledge from policymakers to practitioners. You also can purchase printed editions from the online bookshop.
The database contains Sandec publications assigned to eight different research topics concerning water and sanitation in developing countries and the Sandec newsletter.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Key Technical Resources
In this technical resources database you will find hand picked references for water, sanitation and hygiene subject areas ranging from well construction, school hygiene promotion, water treatment, water quality testing, emergency sanitation, water saving toilets, hand pumps, to centrifugal pumps. Altogether, approx. 1,000 documents are availabe.