This portal provides information on the provision of multiple-use water services. It focuses on how these may be made to work for poverty reduction by supporting people to get access to water for both domestic and productive activities at different levels of scale. It is a collaborative group that you are invited to join!
This folder contains the results of a study on opportunities and barriers for scaling MUS carried out in 5 countries: Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nepal and India. In addition, it contains a synthesis with lessons from across the countries. The reports highlight opportunities and barriers for different entry points towards MUS and possible scaling pathways for each of these.
This set of documents (all in Spanish) contains experiences with MUS pilot projects in Honduras. Amongst others, it contains a guideline that has been used to plan and develop multiple-use systems, and a documents that synthesises some first lessons learnt.
A new report from the Pacific Institute examines Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS), a water-provision and management approach that has emerged as a way to realize the poverty alleviation potential of water projects. The report, Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS): Recommendations for a Robust and Sustainable Approach, provides analysis of the potential benefits of MUS, primary among which is that it reflects the way communities actually use water. In addition, the report analyses the gaps in the MUS approach and evaluates previous efforts at integration in the water sector to identify lessons learned and recommendations for making MUS implementation more robust and sustainable.”
This video, developed by Winrock International, presents an animated introduction to the background of the MUS approach and its key features
Various Dutch NGOs working together in the field of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) have joined hands in policy advocacy amongst Dutch NGOs and towards the Dutch government around a number of themes. This briefing note (in Dutch only) provides the position of these NGOs on gender in the WASH sector. Amongst others, it calls for the adoption of the MUS approach, using the recently published MUS Guidelines, to give shape to the meeting of women's domestic and productive water needs.
This folder contains information regarding the MUS Group meeting to be held on 19-20 January 2012, at the offices of Winrock International in Washington, DC, USA.
The guidelines, compiled by the MUS Group with support from IFAD and SDC, give step-by-step guidance on planning and providing multiple-use water services and on creating an enabling environment at intermediate and national level. It includes a reference guide to tools that can be used by organisations supporting and facilitating the provision of multiple-use water services in various context from different entry-points.
The Rural Water Supply Forum, one of the biggest rural water supply communities in the World, held its Forum on 29th November–2nd December 2011 in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum ended with commitments of the community to improve rural water supplies. One of the ten commitments refers to the recognition of multiple uses, stating that they recognise the multiple uses of water, and the multiple sources from which users take their water for domestic and livelihood purposes.The Forum also contained a session dedicated to multiple uses, with various paper presentations. The declaration and the links to the papers can be found on the Forum's website.
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