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This article argues that policy making is an interactive and ongoing process that transcends the spatio-temporal boundaries drawn by a linear, rational or instrumental model of policy. This argument is constructed by analysing the making of the Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) policy in Mexico in the early 1990s, focusing on different episodes of its re-emergence, standardisation, and acceleration.

RAP, E. ; WESTER, P. (2013): The Practices and Politics of Making Policy. Irrigation Management Transfer in Mexico. المُدخلات: Water Alternatives: Volume 6 , 506-531. URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

http://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/ [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

The AQUASTAT online database is a collection of information and analyses on water resources, water uses, and agricultural water management with an emphasis on countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

https://www.gov.za/documents/national-sanitation-policy-white-paper-draft [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

The National Sanitation Draft White Paper includes a chapter about institutional and organisational framework for sanitation. On this site, you can find detailed information on how to build such a framework, including stakeholders and responsibilities, financial and economic approaches etc. Only available online.

YIOUGO, L.S.A., KOANDA, H., WETHE, J., LUTHI, C., YAPO, O. and DAPOLA, E.D. (2011): The method of material flow analysis, a tool for selecting sustainable sanitation technology options: The case of Pouytenga (Burkina Faso). Water Resources Management VI, Conference Paper, pp. 671-680 URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

The poster presents material flow analysis as a method to assess the material and nutrient flows in a given system and thus to link urban agriculture and environmental sanitation: The case of Kumasi, Ghana.

FORSTER, D. SCHERTENLEIB, R. BELEVI, H. (2003): Linking Urban Agriculture and Environmental Sanitation. Duebendorf: Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science (EAWAG) URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

This document has its focus on the importance of the link between water supply, sanitation and Integrated Water Resources Management.

BUTTERWORTH, J. SOUSSAN, J. (2001): Water Supply and Sanitation and Integrated Water Resources Management: why seek better integration?. Andhra Pradesh: Water, Households and Rural Livelihoods Project URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

NWC (2005): Australian Water Resources 2005 - Water Balance Assessment. Canberra: Australian Government, National Water Commission (NWC) URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

Phosphorus (P) resources globally are considered limited. P originates from a mined non-renewable rock, therefore its presence in the urban-shed demonstrates the impact of urbanisation and the anthropogenic influences on natural cycles of material flow. Any recycling of P is therefore becoming increasingly important. In passing through the linear urban system P is mobilised from particulate to soluble forms. With the present level of nutrient losses from urban water management into the aquatic environment (leading to adverse health and ecological impacts) commitment to urban or peri-urban ecological agriculture (without synthetic fertilisers) offers an attractive solution to the management of urban organic “wastes”.

GUMBO, B. (1999): Establishing Phosphorus Fluxes Through Material Flow Accounting and Systems Thinking in an Urban Shed in Harare, Zimbabwe. Harare: SSRZ Seminar II URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

This document explains how a model-based on material flow analysis (MFA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) was constructed to evaluate the environmental performance of the scenarios. The variables were nitrogen, phosphorus and organic carbon. The evaluation focused on eutrophication and potential reuse of nutrients in agriculture.

DAHLMAN. K (2009): Modelling sanitation scenarios in developing countries: a case study in Kumassi, Ghana. Sweden: Uppsala University URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

This is a short paper about the estimation of annual water balance in the Anthemountas river basin.

FIKOS, I. ZIANKAS, G. RIZOPOULOU, A. FAMELLOS, S. (2005): Water balance estimation in Anthemountas river basin and correlation with underground water level. Thessaloniki: Development Agency of Eastern Thessaloniki URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

Volume I of the Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater focuses on policy, regulation and institutional arrangements. Accordingly, its intended readership is made up of policy-makers and those with regulatory responsibilities. It provides guidance on policy formulation, harmonisation and mainstreaming, on regulatory mechanisms and on establishing institutional links between the various interested sectors and parties. It also presents a synthesis of the key issues from Volumes II, III, and IV and the index for all four volumes as well as a glossary of terms used in all four volumes is presented in Annex 1.

WHO (2006): Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater excreta and greywater. Volume I. Policy and Regulatory Aspects. Geneva: World Health Organisation URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

http://projects.nri.org/wss-iwrm/index.htm [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

This is a website of a project called “Water, Households and Rural Livelihoods Project (WHiRL), which promotes access of the poor to sustainable water supplies for domestic and productive uses in areas of water scarcity. Many of the case studies are from India and South Africa

KARAKITSIOU, A. (2017): Chapter 13 - Sustainable Urban Water Management. In: KARAKITSIOU et al. (eds.). City Networks - Collaboration and Planning for Health and Sustainability. Greece: Springer Optimization and its Applications, pp.227-258. URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019] PDF

This briefing note summarises the importance of good sector resource allocation and sets out some mechanisms for achieving this in theory and in practice. It has useful examples for allocating water to sanitation.

FISHER, J. (2005): Allocating National Resources in the Water and Sanitation Sector. (= Well Briefing Note 11 ). Leicestershire: Loughborough University URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

UNITED NATIONS (2000): Principles and Practices of Water Allocation among Water-Use Sectors . New York: United Nations URL [Accessed: 10.04.2019]

Read more about the importance of soil moisture.

BERRY, W. KETTERINGS, Q. ANTES, S. PAGE, S. RUSSEL-ANELLI, J. RAO, R. DeGLORIA, S. (2007): Soil Texture. Ithaca: Cornell University Cooperative Extension URL [Accessed: 09.04.2019]

INFONET-BIOVISION (2010): Mulching. Zuerich: Biovision URL [Accessed: 09.04.2019]

Infonet-biovision.org is a web-based information platform offering trainers, extension workers and farmers in East Africa a quick access to up-to-date and locally relevant information in order to optimise their livelihoods in a safe, effective, sustainable and ecologically sound way.

INFONET-BIOVISION (2010): Water for Irrigation. Zürich: Biovision URL [Accessed: 09.04.2019]

This document is an example of a water resources assessment in Haiti.

US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS (1999): Water Resources Assessment Of Haiti. Washington, DC: US Army Corps of Engineers URL [Accessed: 09.04.2019]

The Guide to efficient plant nutrition management addresses some major issues related to the agronomic management of plant nutrients in an attempt to ensure both enhanced and sustainable agricultural production and to safeguard the environment.

FAO (1998): Guide to Efficient Plant Nutrition Management. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) URL [Accessed: 09.04.2019]