Showing posts with label households. Show all posts
Showing posts with label households. Show all posts

Monday, March 1, 2010

Customizing a Decentralized Sanitation Solution for Viet Nam's Peri-urban Areas

Design considerations for sanitation approaches in peri-urban areas cover a wide ground, from topography to climate to behaviors and more. Decentralized sanitation approaches reduce the need for complex design engineering and keep investment costs to a minimum, thus enabling communities to participate in their management and operations. People will invest in sanitation services when they understand the benefits they will gain. (No. 24 | January 2010)

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Addressing Energy-Efficiency with Virtual Power Plants

Improved incentives and regulatory measures can promote widespread investments in virtual efficiency power plant initiatives. Energy-efficiency champions can fill the information gap on new energy-efficient technologies. Lending and credit can help small and medium-sized enterprises fund energy-efficient initiatives. [ No. 15 September 2009 ] by Jeffrey Liang, Siew Fing Wong, and Hongliang Yang Read the paper