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[News Stream] Sanitation - Winning a spot in the limelight?
2012-05-25 12:59:00
A year and a half ago I wrote my first sanitation blog on the cholera crisis in Haiti. Today the epidemic is on-going and getting worse. This month the Pan American Health Organization estimated the disease could strike 200,000-250,000 Haitian this year. More than 7,000 have already died from the disease. Efforts to control the outbreak have been patchwork and investments slim as aid organization are beginning to leave. The solution is of course investment in adequate sanitation and water systems, estimated at a price of US$1 billion. This is small portion of the billions that were pledged to Haiti following the earthquake, but contributions have flagged as attention from the crisis fades. Unfortunately, this situation is typical. It often takes a tragedy or a crisis for a problem to make the headlines and stimulate action to correct the situation. Yet what about the quiet tragedies that happen on a daily basis which no one seems to notice? When news becomes old or repetitive w...

[News Stream] Greening the City: Functional, but above all - beautiful!
2012-05-24 07:54:00
Everybody wants greener cities. It makes sense for a lot of reasons: Greenery helps infiltration and reduces flood problems, it lowers air temperatures and thus alleviates the heat island effect, reduces noise and improves air quality, and when producing food it can bring down transport needs and feed the urban poor. Above all - green is beautiful! But how far should the greening of the city go? Is there a point when the urban becomes rural and loses its urban advantage? Will not too much greenery contribute to urban sprawl and increase the intra-urban need for transport? Is it wise to use expensively treated drinking water to irrigate plants? And is urban agriculture really feeding the poor, or is it a side-line business of the already well-off? Urban agriculture can become acutely important in times of crisis, as noted for example in present-day Greece. Newspapers report about people growing food on their balconies, or moving to the countryside, to enjoy a more peaceful life ...

Franska alger kommer till Sverige ? franska delen av Junior Water Prize
2012-05-16 09:14:00
Idag hade jag turen att få delta i den franska Stockholm Junior Water Prize-ceremonin i Paris. Den svenske ambassadören Gunnar Lund delade ut priset – att få delta i den internationella tävlingen under Världsvattenveckan - till 4 lyckliga ungdomar från Agen i södra Frankrike som har hittat ett sätt att skörda de alger som skapar stora problem i franska vattendrag och göra ekologiskt gödningsmedel av dem istället. Algerna sprids varje sommar främst runt Bretagne genom övergödning och avger stinkande gaser såsom vätesulfid. Ungdomarna från gymnasiet Lycée Gustave Eiffel de Bordeaux hoppas kunna kommersialisera sin metod att torka algerna  så att de kan användas i jordbuket i större skala. Pauline Cazeneuve, Nolwenn Gomez, Ollivier Pierre och Téo Laulan vann den franska delen av Stockholm Junior Water Prize och kommer delta i den internationella uttagningen på Världsvattenveckan i augusti Ann-Mari Karlsson, Programme Officer, Swedish Water House

The Business of Business is No Longer Just Business
2012-05-10 19:27:00
How do we alleviate poverty and meet the needs of a growing population in a world with finite natural resources? This crucial question underpinned our dialogue on how to achieve a more sustainable use of water at the United Nations Global Compact's Nordic Network meeting in Stockholm on 24-25 April. The UN Global Compact assembles businesses committed to ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. This specific two-day meeting gathered members of the Nordic Network and over a hundred company representatives took part in the intensive dialogue. I was invited as a panelist in a session on water, ecosystems and companies. In addition to SIWI, Skanska and Xylem presented their work on water issues. Water needs to be integrated as a cross-cutting theme in any sustainable business model. There was consensus in the panel that with today's increasing competition over scarce water resources, we risk depleting a resource that lies at the very c...

Water that flows through a river is not wasted - A meeting with Achim Stein
2012-04-27 16:21:00
At a breakfast meeting last Tuesday Mr. Achim Steiner, executive director of UNEP, shared his thoughts on the role of water in the green economy with the Swedish Water House network. The concept of "green economy" is not always clear to everyone. Mr. Steiner however urged us not to get stuck on a definition, but underlined that the green economy is more a set of principles for how economies should develop in order to sustain a sustainable development. This can be done through many different avenues, fiscal and policy reform to stimulate renewable energy are just a few, as is payment for ecosystem services. It entails a range of delicate challenges, such as how to achieve a policy change in parliaments, or achieving economic development in countries where people don’t even have basics rights in place. The idea that a country must develop first and only then worry about the environment is a fallacy. Mr. Steiner emphasized the importance of moving beyond the North and S...

Water and Energy linkages on the agenda
2012-04-24 15:47:00
Andreas Lindström, Programme Officer at SIWI and cluster group leader for "Water and Energy" reports back from his visit to the AsiaWater 2012 conference.   The 7th edition of the annual water conference AsiaWater was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 26-29 March. The conference, which is co- organized by the Malaysian Water Association (MWA), is considered the major event in Asia regarding water and wastewater industry issues and attracts thousands of visitors both to its exhibition and conference component. Traditionally participants represent water supply authorities, policy makers, water treatment engineers, researchers, environmental specialists and equipment suppliers.  The headline of this edition of the conference was “efficiency and sustainability”- key concerns shared by water and energy developers alike and areas of interest where management of the resources is connected in an obvious way both in the short and long term. The morning of March 2...

Min prao på SIWI
2012-04-24 15:47:00
Mitt namn är Melika och jag går i åttonde klass på Europaskolan. I en vecka har jag praoat på Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). Det är ett policyinstitut som söker hållbara lösningar på världens snabbt ökande vattenproblem. SIWI bedriver projekt, forskning för att främja en hållbar utveckling. En av SIWIs avdelningar heter Swedish Water House (SWH). SWH skiljer sig lite från SIWI genom att de jobbar framför allt med svenska aktörer medan SIWI har internationella kontakter. Jag har bistått i arbetet med en av våra klustergrupper som tittar på gränsöverskridande vattenförvaltning, bland annat med att uppdatera information i deras databas. Jag har även varit med på möten och skrivit protokoll. SIWIs kontor ligger vid Sergels torg. Det är en väldigt fin och rund byggnad med en häftig och unik arkitektur. Tanken bakom mitt val av praoplats var främst att jag ville göra något kul som ändå skulle vara en samhällstjänst och att jag skulle lära mig någonting av det. J...

[News Stream] Charting the Nile Basin Initiative's Agricultural Options
2012-04-24 15:47:00
The Nile Basin stands at a crossroads. It will not be able to feed its growing population and support a rising urban middle-class by focusing on current water practices only. Instead, a comprehensive basin development approach must be chosen, involving rainfed and irrigated agriculture, the importation of food, and the development of an export-oriented service and industrial sector to pay for the imported food. The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) and a future Nile River Basin Commission (NRBC) are in a unique position to help secure a future where more food is grown with less water, where all people have enough to eat and a growing economy contributes to export earnings. In a study entitled "NBI Core Agricultural Functions Study: Proposed framework, options and functions for a NBI/Nile River Basin Commission Agricultural Agenda" and carried out by a Ramboll Natura  - Stockholm International Water Institute consortium in 2011, the future of NBI/NRBC in promoting agricultur...

Meet Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP
2012-04-11 09:35:00
Join our breakfast meeting on April 24: Towards a green economy? The role of energy and water A conversation with Achim Steiner Time: 8 - 9 am, breakfast is served from 7:30 am Venue: Svenska Läkaresällskapet, Klara Östra Kyrkogata 10 Facilitator: Karin Lexén, Director, Swedish Water House To sign up for the meeting, please send an e-mail to ann-mari.karlsson@siwi.org. Seats are limited, first come first serve. The meeting is free of charge. Read more

[News Stream] Responses to climate change at the 6th World Water Forum
2012-04-04 18:01:00
The main theme for the 6th World Water Forum was "Time for solutions" and one of the sub-themes dealt with at the thematic sessions was "Respond to climate and global changes in an urbanizing world". The sub-themes under the 6th World Water Forum were, however, not only themes developed and discussed at the Forum as such, but they were prepared during an ongoing process initiated after the 5th WWF in Istanbul 2009 and leading up to the 6th WWF. The process concerned the Water and Climate-theme identified that water management would require holistic and multidisciplinary responses to the increasingly complex challenges, including those linked to responses to climate and global changes. Hence, under the theme seven different targets were identified with different target-and-solution-group coordinators, which would all contribute to the process. The issue of Water and Climate Change was debated and discussed during high level political round tables, such as the...

SIWI besökte skola i Umeå
2012-04-02 14:17:00
Den 27 mars besökte jag gymnasiet Dragonskolan i Umeå för att tala om SIWIs och SWHs arbete, samt om Världsvattendagens och Världsvattenveckans tema ”Water and Food Security”. Jag landade tidigt i ett snötäckt Umeå och skyndade mig till skolan för att träffa de första eleverna, en blandad grupp från flera olika program och klasser. Det är nyttigt att ibland lämna sitt skrivbord och träffa ungdomar som ställer relevanta, och ibland svåra, frågor om SIWIs arbete. SIWI är ett policyinstitut, men vad innebär det egentligen? Det enkla är ibland det som är svårast att förklara, men klargörandet att SIWI ställer upp riktlinjer och skapar program för att lösa världens vattenproblem, snarare än att bygga brunnar i utvecklingsländer, var ett svar som eleverna accepterade . Vi gick sedan över till ämnet för föreläsningen ”Water and Food Security” eller det något krångliga svenska namnet ”hållbar vattenanvändning för en tryggad matproduktion”. Där det finns ...

Frukostmöte: Inför Rio+20 och Stockholm+40
2012-03-31 14:53:00
Inför Stockholm +40 och Rio +20 bjöd Swedish Water House in Lars-Göran Engfeldt, tidigare miljöambassadör och nu ordförande i Transparency International, till ett samtal om uthållig utveckling. Lars-Göran som varit engagerad i det internationella arbetet med miljöfrågorna sedan 1968, brinner fortfarande för frågorna och hade många tankar kring vad som behövs för att flytta fram klimatarbetet.  Han berättar att under FN:s klimatkonferens i Nairobi 2006 satsade man på små konventioner som var legalt bindande. Man trodde att dessa skulle leda till konkreta åtaganden men endast en av de 300 som slöts har haft effekt. Med så många konventioner är det svårt för länder få en överblick och det är lätt att tappa kontrollen. Inför Rio har man glömt bort allt vi förband oss till att göra för 10 år sedan. Man återupptar mål utan att blicka tillbaka. Det är ett stort problem att gemensamt fattade beslut inte får effekt på nationell nivå menar Lars-Göran. Inför Rio verkar man ha trollat bort...

[News Stream] Global Sanitation Coverage - What will it take?
2012-03-31 14:53:00
On March 6th of this year the Joint Monitoring program of UNICEF and the World Health Organization announced that the world has met the MDG target of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. Yet, the same report highlights that the world is still far from meeting the sanitation target and is unlikely to do so by 2015. According to the report, only 63% of the world has access to improved sanitation, well below the target goal of 75%. Without a significant change in the rate that sanitation in delivered, it will take until 2026 until the sanitation target is met. So the pressure is on to find solutions and new approaches. In fact, that is the theme of the World Water Forum held in Marseille. The conference organizers have started a webpage where people can post their solutions and even gather votes and feedback (http://www.solutionsforwater.org/. The solutions for sanitation include, increasing the capacity of system operators, backing the hu...

To Support Durable Emergency Recovery Assistance
2012-03-28 05:47:00
Many natural disasters that involve calamities such as droughts, floods and earth quakes result in internationally supported recovery assistance. This is particularily true when the national efforts are unable to cope with the situation. Recovery activities that focus on food security, such as those currently found in Ethiopia, are mostly oriented and limited towards seed and tool distribution, potentially also topped up with some food assistance (The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies). While such support may be appropriate and can serve to support immidiate needs and short term recovery, it rarely addresses the root causes to the crisis. It is often only a matter of time until the same population face another crisis of similar nature. It is imperative to understand the root causes to a crisis in order to provide appropriate support. And with the modern age of access to more and better information, emergency response operations have never been better e...

Volontärjobba under Vattenveckan!
2012-03-20 12:04:00
Är du intresserad av vatten- och utvecklingsfrågor? Vill du ta del av och bidra till ny forskning och innovativa lösningar på världens vattenutmaningar? Världsvattenveckan är ett unikt forum där forskare, beslutsfattare samt representanter från företag och civilsamhället utbyter idéer, erfarenheter och strategier som bidrar till ett mer hållbart samhälle. Vi söker nu dig som vill arbeta som Junior Rapporteur under årets Världsvattenvecka den 26-31 augusti. Årets tema är vatten och livsmedelstrygghet. Som Junior Rapporteur hjälper du ledande experter att sammanfatta och analysera allt som händer under Världsvattenveckan. Uppdraget är inte betalt med ger mycket bra möjligheter till nätverkande! SWH står för din avgift, luncher och sociala event. Vi vänder oss i första hand till personer baserade i Sverige. Du kan också arbeta som assistent. Vi behöver din ansökan senast den 1 maj. Se mer information om hur du ansöker här. Av Karin Glaumann, Swedish Water House

6th World Water Forum - Day 4
2012-03-16 12:07:00
Governance is crucial in achieving efficient, sustainable and fair water distribution and delivering adequate sanitation services. However, there is no blueprint, no simple formula for success to can be followed to ensure good governance in the water sector. The complexity of institutional and governmental structures calls for diverse approaches to achieve good governance. The thematic process of the 6th World Water Forum reflects this understanding of the importance of good governance: The UNDP Water Governance Facility at SIWI (WGF) and the Water Integrity Network (WIN), with support from Transparency International (TI), joined efforts to place the crucial issue of integrity and transparency on the agenda at the World Water Forum. Two targets related to the topic of good governance were subsequently developed aiming at achieving wider use of corruption risk assessments and diagnostic studies and clear mechanisms for transparent information sharing, including budget transpare...

6th World Water Forum - Day 3
2012-03-14 17:36:00
  Marseille is nice. Another day with nice weather and intersting discussions. SIWI has been very active - today for example a new report on land aqcusitions and transboundary water management was launched that received a lot of attention and interest both from media as well as forum participants. The topic is new interesting and an emerging and important area that requires much more attention. The water aspect in the new land deals have largely been forgotten (or ignored) and there is a need to include water aspects in the land contracts. A land investment is a water investment. Listen to Anders Jägerskog's radio interview here, "Leasing Land, Leasing Water".  

SIWI på World Water Forum i Marseille / Ann-Mari Karlsson
2012-03-13 10:08:00
SIWI deltar i över 20 seminarier under det 6e World Water Forumet i Marseille, 12-17 mars. Om du vill veta vilka, se vår flyer. Under konferensen i Marseille passar SIWI på att sända några viktiga budskap inför toppmötet om hållbarhet i Rio de Janeiro, Rio+20. Budskapen handlar om att framtida energibehov kräver en bättre vattenresurshantering, vatteneffektiviteten i jordbruket måste öka, kunskap om vattenresurser måste användas i klimatanpassningsarbetet, stödet till samarbete kring vatten mellan länder måste stärkas, och slutligen, att beslutsfattande kring vatten måste bli mer rättvist och byggas på starkare deltagande av intressenter. Läs budskapen i sin helhet här.

[News Stream] Sanitation and the urban poor: sorting out the costs for effe
2012-02-28 23:09:00
Urban dwellers in general enjoy better health and higher incomes than rural inhabitants. Yet, the squalid sanitary conditions of many high-density, low-income informal settlements forfeit the urban advantage. In the urban slums where dwellings lack toilets and where water and waste management is unreliable or ineffective; daily life becomes cumbersome, inconvenient and undignified. Children suffer the consequences through debilitating diarrheal disease. The high cost for society induced by the lack of sanitation has been diligently calculated and the corresponding social and economic benefits of investing in sanitation quantified by the WSP Economics of Sanitation Program (1). For actually putting resources into sanitation, you however need to resolve; who is to pay? How much? For what? And how? A welcome contribution to this challenge is the recent IRC report Sanitation Financing Models for the Urban Poor (2) which sorts out the variegated institutional arrangements to finance diff...

[News Stream] Menstruation - a taboo within the taboo / Ann-Marie Karlsson
2012-02-15 01:14:00
2011 was the year when the UN Human Rights Council took the human right to water and sanitation one step further, with recommendations on how to realize it. Does it mean that in 2012 the battle is over and that it is now "only" up to authorities to start realizing this right? Or, should I say rights? In fact, the distinction between whether this is one or two rights shows that there are still important debates to be held at the global level. The UN special rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque has since her appointment constantly highlighted the right to sanitation, attempting to lift it out of the shadow of the water issue. International organizations and UN agencies have campaigned successfully since the 2008 International Year of Sanitation to break the taboo of sanitation issues so that we can talk frankly of the vital need to have a safe place to pee and poo. But in a legal sense, the right to water and sanitation has often been treated as one combined right. The UN huma...

Get engaged in the World Water Week in Stockholm (and young professionals s
2012-02-03 00:47:00
Since the 90ies, the World Water Week in Stockholm has been the leading yearly event on global water issues, providing the perfect platform through which we have been able to bridge sectors and find solutions to water-related challenges and their impact on the world’s environment, health, climate, economic and poverty reduction agendas. This year’s Week will focus on water and food security and, we now call for your contribution to uncovering the untapped synergies of food and water and explore how these fundamental resources can be managed in a new, green economy. Interested individuals or organsations have until the 15 of February 2012 to submit event proposals or abstracts. Not only established professionals are welcome - I would also like to see more young professionals getting involved. Over the last decade we have seen multiple organisations developing initiatives that have been helping young (water) professionals to develop their career, gain visibility within the...

[News Stream] Sanitation - How much does it really cost? / Jennifer McConvi
2012-01-14 07:33:00
Investments for improving sanitation can mean big money. Within the past monthin Romania, a US$70 million sewerage treatment plant in Braila was opened and anotherUS$47 million projectlaunched to build a large wastewatertreatment station in Constanta County. The sewage treatment plant in Fallujah, Iraq has so far cost US$108 million and is due for completion in 2014.In Africa, a World Bank sanitation project for $30 million was approved for Cameroon in June 2011. While this may sound like lots of money, it is important to keep everything in perspective. Spending on sanitation is generally a fraction of 1% of national budgets and barely registers on many donor budgets. Yet, lack of sanitation is one of the most wide spread health problems of our time (in addition to causing environmental degradation). Every year, 1.8 million people die from diarrheal diseases related to poor sanitation. In terms of illness, fecal-borne diseases result in the loss of 82 million disability-adjusted lif...

[News Stream] Climate Change and water in the continuous UNFCCC-process / G
2011-12-30 13:02:00
During the recently concluded UNFCCC COP17 meeting in Durban, water was, partly as a result of intensive and excellent work by the Water and Climate Coalition and several other groups, included as part of the Nairobi Work Programme (NWP). In November 2011, at the request of parties, the UNFCCC Secretariat produced a technical paper on water and climate change impacts and adaptation strategies, to support the integration of water into adaptation action under the NWP. This paper served as a background document to the deliberations. Climate and Water issues were dealt with at two different official sessions: on December 1st at the Joint SBSTA/SBI (the Subsidiary Body for Implementation) workshop to "consider the outcomes of the Nairobi work programme, to highlight the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change most relevant to the SBI" (FCCC/SBSTA/2011/CRP.1), and at the SBSTA session December 3rd when the Agend...

[News Stream] Transboundary basins and transboundary learning / Klas Sandst
2011-12-29 01:00:00
Transboundary water management (TWM) is a relatively new scientific field and does as such receive much attention - including a need to learn across basin borders. In other words, it is common to make use of case studies, undertake study tours and make thematic reviews of transboundary basins. This type of learning carries a positive notch of working together and adds on to our global knowledge. But does it actually work? Can lessons learned in e.g. the Mekong be transferred to the Nile and the La Plata and still make sense?      There are many organisations that offer extensively described and analysed cases of water management from around the world. For example, the Global Water Partnership has its Toolbox on water management, the World Water Assessment Program provides a huge number of case studies on www.unesco.org/water/wwap, private sector Veolia Water contributes on www.veoliawater.com/solutions/case-studies, and Twin2Go offers its “best guideli...

[News Stream] After the disaster / Klas Sandström
2011-12-29 01:00:00
The Horn of Africa 2011 drought disaster - labeled by many agencies, as one of the most serious drought disasters in modern time - continues to unfold. Yet now, the appearance of the disaster has changed. With the recent rains that commenced early December ago, the drought has ended, but the crisis prevails. In some regions, notably in Kenya, the rains are furthermore the worst that some communities have experienced in 20 years. While the scale of the drought could not be known, it was predicted more than a year earlier, October 2010, with first and foremost the anticipated impact from the La Nina. So while enough time was given to alert the response mechanisms put in place, the information spurred limited action with a traditional emergency scenario emerging as a consequence.     As the immediate effects of the drought have now come to an end, its full impact is yet to be calculated. It is meanwhile remarkable that relevant to the scale and depth of the drought, m...

From COP-17 Durban / Katarina Veem
2011-12-10 15:20:00
The water community has taken significant steps in the right direction at COP 17 in Durban. Despite a very small team, the Water and Climate Coalition was able to follow the discussions of our key issues; the continuation of the Nairobi Work Programme, the negotiations on the Adaptation Committee and the Green Climate Fund. We have had great help and support by members from FAN, CI and Green Cross and a very good collaboration with our partners GWP and CONAGUA. We have been able to support a major push by a number of parties, and we will most likely see Mexico, LDCs and African countries speak up for the cause of water. On December 3rd and December 6th WCC, African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW), African Union Commission (AUC), African Development Bank (AfDB), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Department of Water Affairs, (DWA) South Africa and Global Water Partnership (GWP) arranged Water, Climate and Development Day events. December 3rd was an all-day even...

Att märka eller att inte märka, det är frågan
2011-12-08 08:33:00
Igår kväll samlades ett femtiotal personer på ABF-huset i Stockholm för att diskutera om det är möjligt och önskvärt att handla vattenvänligt. I dagsläget är det svårt för konsumenter att veta hur produktionen av kaffet vi dricker och kläderna vi köper påverkar vattenresurser i de länder där varorna produceras. Lovisa Selander, Stockholm International Water Institute, förklarade att framställningen av mat och andra jordbruksprodukter står för den allra största delen av allt vatten som en svensk är beroende av varje år, medan det vatten vi använder till att diska och laga mat med bara utgör några få procent av den totala mängden. Frågan var alltså om och hur konsumenter ska kunna ta ett ansvar när det gäller att hushålla med de vattenresurser som används för produktion av varor. Seminariet arrangerades gemensamt av Konsumentföreningen Stockholm (KfS) och Swedish Water House. En av kvällens huvudfrågor var om man vill se en produktmärkning för vattensnåla produkter. -  &...

[News Stream]Urban Flooding: Something We Must Live With - and Prepare More
2011-12-06 03:09:00
How to handle flood risk is probably a question as old as human settlements (1). Still today, most urbanization takes place along river beds or coasts and on floodplains, on historically favourable agricultural areas with navigable waterways. Being flat, these areas are typically prone to flooding. With continued urban expansion and population growth, urban flooding is destined to increase. Indeed, as concludes by a recent World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, flood impacts have grown in the recent past and are likely to grow in to the foreseeable future (2). Increased urban flooding, however, is not only due to there being more people, activities and infrastructure in the way of excess water. Land use changes in catchment areas, where for example fewer trees make rainfall hit the ground and the clearing of ground vegetation hamper infiltration, may cause erosion and concentrate run-off from rains into flash floods. On top of this, climate change may already be inducing increase...

Abstract submission for Hydro Predict '2012
2011-12-05 13:35:00
The 3rd International Interdisciplinary conference on "Predictions for Hydrology, Ecology and Water Resources Management: Water Resources and Changing Global Environment" will take place on 24-27 September 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The deadline for abstract submission is 1 February 2012. The conference will bring together professionals, scientists and members of governmental institutions dealing with water resources management. Representatives of natural, social and engineering sciences will meet together to exchange experience and present the current views on the adaptation and mitigation of adverse effects of global change on water resources systems. The Swedish Water House is part of the board of the Swedish International Hydrological Programme (IHP) Committee.

The human right to water - on words and action
2011-11-18 11:45:00
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