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Water & Sanitation
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 Unsubsidized, demand-driven water and sanitation
development is not only possible in poor rural areas, it is a sustainable way to
enable poor families to progressively improve their health status and standards
of living. Poor rural markets are very price sensitive. IDE seeks least-cost
technologies and services to enable even very poor families to invest in
unsubsidized products. Scaleable investment opportunities allow families to
purchase inexpensive products first and then upgrade as incomes increase and as
they see the beneficial health impacts of household-level water and sanitation
investments.
Like its agriculture work, IDE’s water and sanitation
programs build the capacity of an entire sector. In its rural water supply
program, IDE has built, strengthened and formed linkages across all levels of
the supply chain: the manufacturers, pump drillers, pump
installers, distributors, and repair services that enable families to access
safe water supplies. In its accompanying marketing campaigns, IDE
has built demand not for a single technology, but for clean water in general.
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