This book shows how multiple-use water services (MUS) are best suited to meeting people’s diverse water needs.

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This IWMI-CP-IRC research report traces the history of domestic-plus, productive-plus, and multiple-use by design approaches, and lists the documented merits and disadvantages of multiple-use water services approaches. For future action-research, a conceptual framework is presented that identifies the key conditions that need to be in place (or 'principles') for implementing multiple-use water services at community level and massive upscaling at intermediate and national levels. This approach has been developed and adopted by the MUS project.

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This paper discusses the MUS approach and describes the ways in which the MUS project adopted horizontal and vertical learning alliances as vehicle for its action-research in eight countries.

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A ‘multiple-use water services’ approach can unleash massive productive capacity in households and communities. This is what Barbara van Koppen wrote on MUS in an article in Capacity.org nr 36.

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Papers presented at the 2nd International Forum on Water and Food.

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An overview of the MUS sessions at the 4th World Water Forum in Mexico in March 2006. The sessions brought together local practitioners piloting integrated approaches to supply water for domestic and productive uses, and representatives of key international and national institutions from the domestic and irrigation sectors. The response from the participants was enthusiastic. "One of the most exciting things this week,"said Roberto Lenton of the Global Water Partnership (GWP), who highlighted how the session offered practical ways to implement integrated water resources management.

WWF4FINAL SESSION REPORT FT 4 25 MUS 20 MARCH.doc  (55 kB)