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24 May 2023
Women in Water Diplomacy Network Reports on Progress
In April, the Women in Water Diplomacy Network (WWDN) published its 2023 After Action Report which reviews the activities of both its Water Diplomacy Symposium as well as the network’s engagement in the UN 2023 Water Conference. Following the expression in 2022 of its strategic objectives for the period 2022-2017, the WWDN embarked on the implementation of its five point strategy to improve gender equality in high-level decision making in transboundary basins...
22 May 2023
IADB publishes cybersecurity study on water infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean
Source of Innovation, a partnership promoted and co-financed by the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), has carried out a study on cybersecurity trends in the water and sanitation sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The study involved an assessment of LAC’s water and wastewater infrastructure ‘cybersecurity readiness’ and presents key recommendations for public and private sector actors to increase their organization’s overall cyber resilience...
19 May 2023
UN Water’s 2023 Data Drive:
On the 2nd of May, UN Water launched the third round of global data compilation for sustainable development goal 6 (SDG 6) on water to integrate and mainstream the evidence base for global decision making on water and sanitation, the 2023 Data Drive. This third data drive is taking place against the background of a marked improvement over time in the breadth and depth of national reporting on SDG6 since the first data drive in 2016/2017 and the second in 2019/2020: the size and quality of the global data set guiding national and international decision making on water has improved steadily since the launch of the 2030 Agenda in 2015...
18 May 2023
Interview: Federico Properzi, UN Water
Tobias Schmitz: At the last UN Water Conference in Mar del Plata in 1977, member states prepared national plans in advance and ultimately met for a period of two weeks. In the 2023 UN Water Conference, the agenda was fairly open and the meeting lasted three days. This puts quite a lot of pressure on achieving the outcomes in a short space of time...
8 May 2023
WFP and UNEP sign agreement to boost food and water security
On the 5th of May, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) signed an agreement designed to strengthen cooperation on water and food security. The agreement was signed by Cindy McCain, the Executive Director of WFP, and Inger Andersen, the Executive Director of UNEP...
3 May 2023
Lake Kenyatta: Lamu County and a Water Users Association work to protect a vital resource.
For 40 years, David Muiga, aged 72, has lived in Mpeketoni, Lamu County, Kenya, having moved there from the Rift Valley decades ago and joining thousands of immigrants. Mpeketoni started as a government settlement scheme in the 1970s for landless people drawn from other parts of Kenya. With water readily available from Lake Kenyatta, the area grew rapidly as agricultural production increased to supply local towns such as Lamu, but also to Malindi, Mombasa and even Nairobi...
18 Apr 2023
The Five Dimensions of Water
Independently of the professional discipline from which we analyse water management - whether we are looking at water from the perspective of international water law, financial investments, engineering, or social equity – the current approach focuses too narrowly on ‘water’ as the liquid H₂O...
18 Apr 2023
Water for Nature, Nature for Water:
On the 23rd of March, a side event was held at the UN 2023 Water Conference to present international and national legal tools and local customary norms to mainstream the protection of rivers and other water-related ecosystems in decision-making and announce commitments for the Water Action Agenda. Initiated by the International Association of Water Law, the event was co-created by 45 participant organisations, and took the form of an intergenerational debate on improving the governance of freshwater biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature and for transformative change towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda...
13 Apr 2023
Six Current and Former Heads of State presented with Presidential Global Water Changemakers Award
Six serving or former heads of state have received the Presidential Global Changemakers Award at the UN Water Conference in New York. Of these heads of state, four are co-chairs of the International High-Level Panel on Water Investments in Africa: H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal, H...
11 Apr 2023
Study shows that privileged urban populations are key drivers of urban water crises
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, 79 cities across the world have suffered acute water shortages due to continuous growth in demand as well as the impacts of climate change. Traditional explanations of these crises point to the continuous growth of urban areas, both through population growth and economic growth, as well as changes in the water cycle that reduce the predictability and reliability of existing water supply systems...
9 Apr 2023
Conflict in France over policy to develop agricultural water pans
In France, protests erupted against the construction of agricultural reservoirs in the southeast of the country on the 25th of March. According to the organisers of the protests, more than 25,000 protesters had assembled in the vicinity of Saint Solines. In response, 3,000 members of the security forces were deployed and violent clashes ensued...
8 Apr 2023
The Polder Model for Balanced Water Management: A Dutch Approach
Tobias Schmitz: From the side of The Water Diplomat, we would be very interested in getting a perspective from you on current affairs in international water diplomacy from the perspective of those who are actually ‘producing’ water: on the one hand human rights and international justice but also the nuts and bolts of workplace relations and making water ‘work’...