WaterAid is an international non government organization dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world's poorest people. WaterAid has been working in Bangladesh since 1986 through local partner organizations (NGOs) to improve hygiene behavior and access to water and sanitation services for poor communities giving
emphasis on demonstration of innovative approaches, participatory methods, gender and vulnerable groups, hygiene promotion, monitoring and evaluation and sustainability. Advancing Sustainable Environmental Health (ASEH) is a DFID supported major project of WaterAid Bangladesh (WAB) for hygiene promotion, environmental sanitation and water supply. It is being implemented in partnerships with local rural and urban NGO partners. The project started
in July 2003 and will be end up in March 2009. One of the major objectives of ASEH is to ensure access to, and use of safe and adequate water and environmental sanitation facilities; and improvement in hygiene behavior in the target communities in rural areas and urban slums. WaterAid is promoting community managed safe water supply and sanitation facilities for urban and rural poor in challenging geographical, socioeconomic and technical contexts in Bangladesh. WAB and Partner Organizations have been offering a range of water supply technology options to address the needs of communities located at different geo-physical context. Under urban context, the following water supply options are usually offered - • Urban Water Point (UWP); • Urban Stand Post (USP); • Different types of tube wells (shallow, deep- set, deep)