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2007 SIWI Year in Review: Looking Back, Striding Forward

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:55 +0000

At SIWI, 2007 has been an exceptional year that has seen the expansion and steady improvement of our capacity building, programmatic, publishing and advocacy activities. The year began with a reformulation of the organisations long-term strategy to further establish the policy institute as a relevant and forward-looking actor in the water and development field.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 4 2007.

A Little Light Relief?

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:53 +0000

Most people in the developed world are fortunate: they can take proper sanitation for granted. But millions in poorer countries are denied this most basic of human needs. They suffer indignity and disease, and their societies suffer as well. Alex Kirby reports on the economic upside of sanitation.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.4 2007.

Stockholm Water Front No. 4 2007

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:50 +0000

Like the upcoming 2008 World Water Week, this issue of Water Front will place special focus on sanitation issues to give a glimpse of the broad breadth of the challenge, featuring several articles on the topic that range from critical home hygiene to the expansive task of producing sustainable sanitation in growing cities.

Taking from the Top: Looking Upstream in India

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:48 +0000

River basin closure has developed into a sizeable challenge of extreme importance. Over the past 50 years, many of the river basins that support the worlds breadbaskets have already or will soon become closed basins. Like the basins themselves, the worlds eye on this critical issue seems to be closing at a time when it can least afford to look away. Applying the findings of a groundwater use case from India, this article sheds some light on this blind spot in water resource management to see what is going on downstream in the great sub-continent.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 4 2007.

Urban Sanitation: Politics in a Dirty World

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:46 +0000

The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) of UNICEF and the World Health Organization estimates that access to basic sanitation in urban populations crept up from 79 to 80 percent between 1990 and 2004. One percent may seem minimal, but in conjunction with the increasing size of urban populations the absolute numbers of unserved urban people rose from 475 million to 611 million over the same period. Still, some countries are showing signs of steady progress.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.4 2007.

Climate Change 2.0 and Water Management Some Simple Thoughts on a Complex Issue!

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:44 +0000

Climate Change 2.0 is now upon us and the 21st century climate challenges will require 21st century perspectives from water professionals. If we are to believe the current media hysteria nothing in our lives will ever be the same. Is it really so? Do the climate change predictions of, for instance, the IPCC (2007) really mean so much new for water resources planning? As water professionals we plan based on reality rather than predictions. What are we to do now then?

Published in the October 2007 issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

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From Field to Fork – Wastage of Water in the Food Chain

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:42 +0000

With rising population, urbanisation and higher incomes, food demand may double in the coming 50 years. Given the water scarcity and related environmental problems that are already occurring in many parts of the world, the corresponding increases in the pressure on water and land resources that will accompany these trends is a critical and grossly under-appreciated concern. For real solutions to the food, water and environment nexus, it is essential that we pay attention to the entire production to consumption process, that we understand what happens from field to fork.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 3 2007.

Get Ready: Adopting to Water and Climate Change

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:40 +0000

Changes in water availability are what hit us first with an altered climate. Beyond the stronger, less predictable and more frequent natural disasters resulting from global climate change, regions across the world are already suffering from the effect climate has on the water balance: “Too much or too little water; water at the wrong time or in the wrong place; rising sea levels; and floods in certain regions while drought in others,” as SIWI Executive Director Anders Berntell succinctly stated in his opening address to the World Water Week. “None of us can say we are prepared for what is in store.”

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 3 2007.

Outputs from the World Water Week

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:38 +0000

The 2007 World Water Week featured a number of new agreements, initiatives, launches and celebrations. This article highlights the outcomes of the Week which put special focus on the climate change and sanitation area.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 3 2007.

Stockholm Water Front No. 3 2007

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:26 +0000

Over 2500 participants from 113 countries gathered in the Swedish Capital for the 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm to attend the exciting series of plenary sessions, workshops, seminars and side events. The conference placed focus on numerous issues, such as: addressing the critical lack of sanitation, water scarcity, transboundary water governance, and building capacity to empower communities. This issue of Water Front presents the outputs from World Water Week and the discussions emphasised on the great modern challenge to navigate global change.

Stockholm International Water Institute » 2007

2007 SIWI Year in Review: Looking Back, Striding Forward

A Little Light Relief?

Stockholm Water Front No. 4 2007

Taking from the Top: Looking Upstream in India

Urban Sanitation: Politics in a Dirty World

Climate Change 2.0 and Water Management  Some Simple Thoughts on a Complex Issue!

From Field to Fork – Wastage of Water in the Food Chain

Get Ready: Adopting to Water and Climate Change

Outputs from the World Water Week

Stockholm Water Front No. 3 2007

Climate Change 2.0 and Water Management Some Simple Thoughts on a Complex Issue!