Catching, Storing and Using Grey Water and Rainwater in Camps and Settlements | Re-Alliance Radio with Shaher Abdullateef, Juliet Millican, and Richard Luff

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A regenerative approach to camp and settlement design goes beyond the sustainable lens recommended in the Sphere guidelines. It aims to create an abundance of health and well-being of all inhabitants, while ensuring any interventions have a positive impact on the land they are settled in, and biodiversity. This includes managing water and water disposal effectively, replenishing soil and vegetation, and providing people with access to green spaces and fresh food they can grow themselves.
In areas of limited rainfall and high temperatures, nearly all food crops will need additional irrigation water to supplement rainfall. Water is heavy to transport so growing areas should be sited close to identified water sources.
In this podcast, we explore guidelines that Re-Alliance developed alongside partners, showcasing tools and techniques for catching, storing and using Grey water and Rainwater in camps and settlements. We welcome three people who have worked together to create a set of guidelines focussed on harvesting rainwater and grey water:

Juliet Millican, the coordinator of the Re-Alliance team, and an educator and researcher exploring participatory and community-based learning in situations of conflict and displacement,

Shaher Abdulateef, the Director of Syrian Academic Expertise and an agronomist with a research focus on Food Security and Livelihoods in Syria. Shaher and SAE recently worked with Re-Alliance to train communities in Northwest Syria in effective water use in agriculture, and,

Richard Luff, a humanitarian practitioner who has worked with a number of large NGOs and agencies, with a speciality in water harvesting.