Adequate clean water, improved sanitation infrastructure, and better hygiene may significantly improve health outcomes for people living with HIV in resource-poor settings. However, few programs effectively integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene into home-based care and other HIV services.

“Innovations” bulletins highlight CRS projects and programs that are successful because of their inventive and creative approach.

A conceptual and practical framework for water development practitioners, civil society peacebuilders, and human rights advocates seeking to integrate water and peacebuilding in their work.

This paper explains basic groundwater and well drilling concepts and shows how they can be employed to strengthen and expand CRS water development programs.

A new Learning Alliance on integrated water resource management (IWRM) will launch later this year, linked to the Global Water Initiative (GWI) project and focused on multiple uses of water, to foster a community of practice and build capacity in CRS staff and partner institutions.

Catholic Relief Services has debuted a new agricultural programming strategy that links farming with other efforts in emergency response, health, water, sanitation and nutrition. The new approach also makes linkages to natural resource management, climate change adaptation,  microfinance, knowledge management and communication technologies.

Concise how-to’s and reviews of technology. Topics include ecological sanitation, WASH needs assessments, rainwater collection, borehole drilling equipment, and irrigating home gardens.