Water justice reports from World Water Week

600.000 new water connections due to Asian WOPs

2011-08-31T23:51:00.000-07:00

Stockholm Water Week included a whole day of seminars with a regional focus and I opted to attend 'Eye on Asia: Partnerships for Water: How Can Asia Do More?'. The seminar, in which Asian Development Bank played a major role, started with a presentation by Mai Flor from the secretariat of WaterLinks. Flor presented the on-going Water Operator Partnerships (WOPs) projects in Asia pacific

Japan’s role in global water: big choice ahead

2011-08-27T07:21:00.000-07:00

For a number of reasons I was eager to get a chance to talk with the representatives of the Japanese development aid agency JICA attending Stockholm Water Week. JICA has for several decades funded and facilitated technical assistance and training programs that connect Japanese public water companies with partner utilities in Asia and Africa. While the terms were not used, these not-for-profit

Pro-poor water management: community participation and ownership

2011-08-25T13:08:00.000-07:00

‘Pro-poor urban water provision’ is a big theme at World Water Week in Stockholm this year. The seminar on 'Pro-Poor Urban Water and Sanitation Provision: how can it be supported by participation, benchmarking and WOPs' attracted a nearly full room (200 people). The large turnout indicates an encouraging increased interest in public water management, after many years where market driven

Many little streams make a mighty river – the 1% solidarity levy

2011-08-24T22:12:00.000-07:00

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Presumably few Europeans would oppose one percent of their water bill going to international solidarity projects to help people who don’t yet have accesses to safe water and adequate sanitation. And as the Swedish proverb says, many little streams make a mighty river: the combined sums can make a real difference. In some countries a 1% solidarity levy is

Fighting corruption with the Water TAP plus A

2011-08-24T04:55:00.000-07:00