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Report and video webinar Water Solutions #3: Risk and Resilience

On May 28th, we hosted the third webinar in the series AIWW Water Solutions on Risks and Resilience. We received over 230 participation interests from over 66 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, island countries, middle-eastern countries, North America and Australia. The main question that drove the webinar discussion was “How do we build adaptive and resilient systems for risk preparedness?”. This report includes the contributions, discussions, conclusion and the recorded video.
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Cascading impacts and interdependencies, are we taking enough actions towards disaster risks?

Numerous scientific studies have created overwhelming evidence about the changing climate and its impacts: frequent and severe weather, sea-level rise and warming, acidification, extended periods of water scarcity and extreme temperatures, flash floods, depleting ground water levels, degrading aquifers, crumbling water infrastructures and other deleterious effects.

The ability to overcome these vulnerabilities and prepare for risks varies from region to region and community to community. Certain regions despite being on the disaster-prone zones have limited financial and political interests to bounce back while other regions have capacities to research and innovate into risk preparedness, evaluation, forecast using data-led technological advancements.

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Global Inventory: Modular Stepwise Procedure

Our Global Inventory is a digital space for knowledge exchange, thereby fostering collaboration between projects, ideas and innovations that address global water challenges. One of the cases her is the Modular Stepwise Procedure: a set of methods for surveying and assessing the status of water bodies. It is a collaboration between the federal government, cantons, research institution (Eawag) and the Association for Water Professionals (VSA). Launched in 1998, methods are now available for the most important aspects of assessing the status of watercourses in accordance with water protection legislation. In addition to these assessment methods for watercourses, it also includes the first methods for assessing the status of lakes, as well as methods for identifying the causes of deficits and for monitoring the effectiveness of measures.
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Seeking Innovators in Sanitation Entrepreneurship

Are you the sanitation entrepreneur who would benefit from:
  • expert business training and tailor-made coaching from Accenture,
  • platforms and access to the Amsterdam International Water Week and Stockholm World Water Week and
  • a chance to win the grand prize of €100,000 for implementation of your solution, and additional Accenture support?
Then register for the Sarphati Sanitation Challenge. Better be fast: applications need to be in by Friday June 5th.
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Gerard van den Berg: ‘’The term wastewater is a barrier for a lot of initiatives’’

Dr. Gerard van den Berg is a geochemist and project manager at the KWR Water Research Institute in the Netherlands. His expertise focuses on drinking water research, and research into water in the circular economy. He is also the official coordinator of the EU-funded Ultimate project, which is developing and optimising water recycling technologies to create a ‘Water Smart Industrial Symbiosis.’ Dr. Kristine Jung is Project Manager at the European Science Communication Institute (ESCI).
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Natural climate buffers combine nature development with water storage and greenhouse gas capture

The results from three natural climate buffers in the Northern Netherlands, namely De Onlanden, Hunze and Anserveld/Leisloot, are discussed. They have acted as catalysts for new project development in which water management, climate policy, the development of nature and the use of public space have reinforced one another. Due to climate change, there is a growing need to work with concepts such as the climate buffer approach. With rewetting measures, it is possible to achieve 20 to 30% of the challenge outline in the Climate Agreement to reduce emissions by 1.5 Mton CO2 eq by land use change on mineral soils and peat. To get a grip on the financial risks of this type of spatial investment, innovation and the linking of existing monitoring networks is necessary.
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Timeline of important water events

As water professionals we need to stay current by regularly updating and enhancing our skills, knowledge and know-how, by joining events and conferences worldwide. Here’s an overview of events we would recommend participating. Please let us know if there are events missing and what’s on your radar.
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