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Jan 8, 2019

Ms Ingrid Stangberg, SIWI

[vc_row][vc_column width= 1/1 ][vc_column_text] Ms Ingrid Stangberg joined SIWI in 2008. In her position as Content Manager, Ms Stangberg coordinates the work around World Water Weeks sessions (mainly working with the events) and support the Scientific Programme Committee as its secretary. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Jan 8, 2019

Ms Maarja Cederlöf, SIWI

[vc_row][vc_column width= 1/1 ][vc_column_text] Ms Maarja Cederlöf joined SIWI in 2012. In her position as Content Officer, Ms Cederlöf manages the nine seminars of the World Water Week and supports the work of Scientific Programme Committee and the Co-convenors. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Jan 8, 2019

Ms Mariet Verhoef-Cohen Women for Water Partnership (Co-opted)

[vc_row][vc_column width= 1/1 ][vc_column_text] Mariet Verhoef-Cohen is a trained professional translator and owner/ director of Bacolet Translations. As president of the Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) she galvanised worldwide attention for the ‘clean water for women’ theme, coupled to the promotion of gender responsive sanitary provisions. As its president since 2014, she has been a driving force [ ]

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Jan 8, 2019

Ms Annemiek Jenniskens Women for Water Partnership (Co-opted)

[vc_row][vc_column width= 1/1 ][vc_column_text] Annemiek Jenniskens is Director of Women for Water Partnership, a partnership uniting women leadership in water across the world. Before she spent 24 years with SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, the last 8 years as global director and the first 8 years she worked in Zimbabwe and Benin. She studied at the agricultural university [ ]

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Jan 7, 2019

Mr Murray Burt, UNHCR (Co-opted)

[vc_row][vc_column width= 1/1 ][vc_column_text] Murray Burt (MSc, MBA, BE, MICE) is Head of the Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Unit at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), overseeing delivery of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene services to refugees throughout the world. He is a chartered civil and environmental engineer with over twenty years’ experience working with [ ]

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News.Jan 7, 2019

Prepare for the future of water in open online course

Water is the defining issue of our age. That s why the United Nations SDG Academy and SIWI have joined forces to create the open course Water: addressing the global crisis, covering the latest water trends.

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Feature.Dec 18, 2018

Wasting and dining: the new water dilemma

Read this blog by Jan Lundqvist where he writes about the concerns with food systems, that are shifting from insufficient production and supply, to issues likely to affect food production in the medium and long term, such as water risks, global warming and environmental consequences.

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Dec 16, 2018

Submit Seminar Abstracts and Event Proposals by Jan 20

The seminars are the scientific core of the Week. Nine seminars take place during the Week and their content is connected to the thematic scope. Events aim to advance knowledge and/or present new findings, and often include a discussion or an interaction with an audience. Topic proposals submitted by organizations are selected by SIWI. [ ]

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Feature.Dec 10, 2018

In the spotlight: Businesses’ responsibility to respect the right to water

10 December is International Human Rights Day. Today, we are highlighting the right to water and businesses’ responsibility to respect that right. Read Dr Jenny Grönwall s blog on a future treaty that could make it easier to hold companies to account for human rights violations.

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News.Dec 5, 2018

Climate Countdown: Step up to speed on the transition!

I en välfylld sal på ABF trängs massor av människor som alla vill se en tuffare klimatpolitik. Seminariet ”Climate Countdown get up to speed on the upcoming climate negotiations” arrangerades i samarbete med FUF med anledning av klimatkonferensen, COP24, som äger rum i Katowice i början av december. I panelen sitter Johanna Lissinger Peitz, [ ]

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Nov 30, 2018

SIWI at COP24

SIWI is helping to lead the dialogue around water as a key element to addressing climate impacts and mitigating the effects of climate change at COP 24 in Katowice, Poland. See our full programme of activities, key messages and highlights from past engagements on our SIWI at COP page.

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Feature.Nov 29, 2018

Watering the Paris Agreement at COP24

On the doorstep of finalizing the roadmap to implementing the Paris Agreement, the water community is coming together to leverage opportunities and awareness about water’s role in tackling climate change. Read the blog from Maggie White, Senior Manager, International Policies.

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News.Nov 27, 2018

The value of water dialogues

How can shared water resources contribute to dialogue and trust? This was the key theme when The Shared Waters Partnership facilitated a side event entitled, “Opportunities for Water Diplomacy in Conflict-prone Regions” at the Eighth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention on October 10th, 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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News.Nov 20, 2018

Time to re-value the undervalued: Water

“I think you value water the most when you don’t have water.” With these words, Torgny Holmgren, Executive Director of SIWI, opened the Swedish Water House seminar “Do you value water?” in which he then elaborated on how water scarcity makes us re-think our priorities. The following expert discussion led by John Joyce, Chief Economist [ ]

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Feature.Nov 14, 2018

How to reduce your water footprint is just as important as your carbon footprint

Invisible to most, water is in everything we eat, wear, and use. It is in the growing of crops, the mining of metals, the dyeing of fabric, and the production lines manufacturing our phones. Without water, modern life as we know it ceases.

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