#RWSN @ #WWW : the presentations

RWSN co-convened two sessions at last week’s SIWI World Water Week in Stockholm and presentations are available to download:

WASHoholic Anonymous – Confessions of Failure and how to Reform

All presentations: http://programme.worldwaterweek.org/sites/default/files/panzerbeiter_lt_1400.pdf

Build and Run to Last: Advances in Rural Water Services

• India’s rural water supply services presentation:
• Solar powered water supply presentation:
• Ensuring Sustainability of Rural Water Supply Services Through Strengthening O&M Systems:
• Build and Run to Last –Advances in Rural Water Services:
• Building Blocks for Success: Global Analysis of Rural Water Service Sustainability:

UPGro / REACH related:

After making a big splash last year, the UPGro presence at SIWI World Water Week 2016 has been relatively low key. However, Dr Rob Hope (Oxford) presented the exciting work from the UPGro/REACH research they is being done in Kenya: Performance-based finance for drinking water security. And Dr Katrina Charles presenting the REACH approach to Scales of water security

Also presenting during the week was Dr Callist Tindimugaya, from the Ministry of Water & Environment Uganda, who who recently accepted the invitation to become an UPGro Ambassador. Dr Tindimugaya is one of the foremost groundwater specialists in Africa and is not only the Commissioner for Water Resources Regulation in Uganda, but also vice-President of the International Assocation of Hydrogeologists (IAH) for Sub-Saharan Africa, a key figure in the Africa Groundwater Network.

…and Roadsforwater.org was mentioned as a successful and replicable example of rainwater harvesting for groundwater recharge as well as for green water capturing at the Malin Falkenmark Symposia (thanks to Jenny Grönwall of SIWI/T-GroUP who was a panelist in that session)

Others of interest:

• Setting the Stage: Building a Prosperous Environment for WASH
• Overview of Ethiopia’s ‘ONE WASH’ Plan and Contribution of CSO & Private sectors
• Building A Bridge to Universal WASH – Private Sector Innovation & Partnerships
• Policy implications of monitoring SDG 6

• Enhancing water availability for livelihood improvement in Karamoja region, Uganda
• Optimal water allocation for rainfed agriculture and livelihoods in Ethiopia

 

Thanks to all the RWSN members involved in organising and running these. We at the Secretariat weren’t directly involved, so particular thanks to Almud Weitz (World Bank), Patrick and Marieke (IRC), Harold Lockwood (Aguaconsult) and all the presenters, panellists and people who attended.