Latest UPSCALE Safe Water Review: Human Rights, Practitioners Speak, Carbon Credits

The right to safe water, the potential of carbon credits for water … and the insights of practitioners in regulation, business and health are all featured in the latest issue of the 300in6 popular science journal, UPSCALE – the safe water review.

• A powerful, exclusive interview with Catarina de Albuquerque, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, insists on quality, safety and genuine accessibility. Her remarks align with the accounts of three experienced practitioners in regulation, health programmes and filter production and marketing.

• The views of a carbon finance specialist and of WASH practitioners, combined with contextual details on carbon emissions, provide a balanced introduction to the potential revenues which low-carbon water treatment could generate from the enticing but complex new economy of carbon credits

• This quarter’s centre-page poster raises issues of customer response and design enhancement of a candle filter in production in Malawi.

Download UPSCALE 2 at: http://300in6.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/UPSCALE-2-The-safe-water-review-Web-edition.pdf

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