Afghan Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation
Publisher: USAID
Date: 2014
Topics: Basic Services, Renewable Resources
Countries: Afghanistan
Only 27 percent of rural-based Afghans have access to clean drinking water and fewer to safe sanitation (Source: MRRD, Jan. 2010). SWSS is a services delivery tool of the government and Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) whose designs, installation and sustainable training of system operators together with hygiene promotion lead to improved health outcomes and impact. USAID is building the capacity of the Afghan government and local communities to promote community self-empowerment though hygiene promotion and behavior changes that lead to communities building their own safe and clean places to go to the toilet. The SWSS project’s community mobilization and sustainability unit lays the groundwork for community potable water to alleviate waterborne illnesses. Begining in October 2009, USAID tasked Tetra Tech ARD to manage SWSS for 36-months until September 2012.