The objective of the Water Innovations Technologies (WIT) activity is to conserve water through the adoption of new water-saving technologies and techniques. The project is funded by USAID and managed by Mercy Corps.
WIT targets water conservation at the end user level, promoting practices to preserve, protect, and utilize water resources better. WIT achieves water savings by targeting the largest water users in the agricultural sector, as well as households and communities where water conservation technology adoption will provide the greatest possibility for water savings. Breaking down barriers to technology adoption requires interventions to operate with various levels of stakeholder groups in the stages of demonstration, early adoption, scaled uptake through finance incentives and advisory support.
The Royal Scientific Society (RSS) – Water & Environment Centre role in this project is to promote smart agricultural tools in northern highlands and Jordan Valley; demonstrate rainwater harvesting cisterns at public facilities in the targeted areas; construct and operate decentralized wastewater treatment demonstration sites; install dry sanitation demonstration sites; provide technical training sessions on installing and operating the aforementioned interventions; developing water-saving mobile applications, and conducting several social marketing campaigns to adopt good water conservation behaviours.
