Background documents

This section contains background documents devided into different categories. Most of the documents are available in PDF format and available for download.

Ceramic water filters

Ceramic water purifier Cambodia field test (262kB)

• IDE Working Paper No. 1
• October 2003
• Michael Roberts, M.S.
• International Development Enterprises

Independent Appraisal of Ceramic Water Filtration Interventions in Cambodia (346kB):

• Final Report; Joe Brown and Mark Sobsey
• University of North Carolina School of Public Health
• Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
• Submitted to UNICEF – Cambodia, 5 May 2006

Ceramic silver impregnated pot filters for household drinking water treatment in developing countries (2.9MB):

• MSc thesis Doris van Halem; November 2006
• Delft University of Technology
• Sanitary Engineering Section
• Department of Water Management
• Faculty of Civil Engineering

Fuel efficient pumpsets

• Technology, innovation and promotion in practice; pumps, channels and wells
• Reducing fuel consumption, emissions and costs (32 MB)
• Gert Jan Bom; Ibrahim Hafeez ur Rehman; David van Raalten; Rajeshwar Mishra; Frank van Steenbergen
• © Tata Energy Research Institute, 2002, ISBN 81-7993-009-2
• Published by: TERI; Darbari Seth Block; Habitat Place; Lodhi Road; New Delhi; India