Stockholm International Water Institute » Andreas Lindström http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 SIWI Business Services http://www.siwi.org/knowledge-services/business/ http://www.siwi.org/knowledge-services/business/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:07:16 +0000 Nora http://www.siwi.org/?page_id=5834 SIWI helps businesses address water-related risks

As a neutral, not-for-profit, solution-oriented, world-leading water policy and management research institute, SIWI helps businesses understand and address water-related risks and challenges to their operations and reputation globally, and in specific regions where they operate. After identifying opportunities in current challenges, SIWI formulates strategies for businesses, mapping current activities and suggesting concrete measures to improve existing water use.  SIWI offers analytic and managerial competence to plan and execute projects, or support existing ones, focusing on operational efficiency, contextualization and minimization of water risk and improving sustainable resource management. SIWI offers its unique expertise in producing comprehensive solutions to address water challenges and create opportunities.

Examples of products that SIWI offers its business clients:

Strategic Research: SIWI produces strategic assessment research focussing on water use in relation to a specific industry, region or operation, mapping areas of interest and future challenges to create greater understanding for the competing demands for water and the ways in which industry interplays with others in a water basin setting.

Comprehensive status reports including the following content:

  1. Baseline assessment. Baseline assessments comprehensively describe the current status in terms of how does an industry positions itself within competition over water resources.
  2. GAP analysis. SIWI analyses current practices to improve sustainable water use and what can be done better.
  3. Opportunity assessment. Forward-looking analysis focussing on concrete benefits to be achieved by strategic investments and other progressive actions in the industries water managing functions.

Operational analysis: SIWI develops strategic option assessment plans to reduce unsustainable, on- site, water resources use established for each operation entity. Based on information gathered at a specific project area, such options would ensure efficiency of processes and elaborate cost-reduction or return on investment. Such plans include option assessments for:

  • Water saving, quality and reuse: areas of direct water use which can be reduced, replaced or abandoned to save water, improve quality of waste-water and where can water reuse be effective.
  • Operation efficiency: Operational schemes/appliances/equipment maintenance, adjustment or altering to address both direct and indirect water usage use – and energy consumption in extension.
  • Technology choices: New technology that could be invested in to cater for the above.

Capacity Building and Management Support: This includes a number of options connected to support the management to reach its targets, capitalise on its opportunities, and ensure the sustainability of its improvements. These include:

  1. Policy compliance support
  2. Capacity Building and human resource development
  3. Knowledge management
  4. Sustainable water management project development and implementation support
]]> http://www.siwi.org/knowledge-services/business/feed/ 0 World Leading in Five Thematic Areas by 2017 http://www.siwi.org/publication/world-leading-in-five-thematic-areas-by-2017/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/world-leading-in-five-thematic-areas-by-2017/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:50:42 +0000 Nora http://www.siwi.org/?post_type=publication&p=5050 Stockholm WaterFront No.4 2012 article

With its vision for a “water wise world”, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) recently produced its 2013-2017 strategy, placing its various programmes and activities within five thematic areas: Climate Change; Transboundary Water Management; Water Governance; Water, Energy and Food Nexus; and Water Economics. In this article, we highlight why we work with these themes and the key services we provide under each theme.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/world-leading-in-five-thematic-areas-by-2017/feed/ 0 Water and Energy: Threats and Opportunities http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-energy-threats-and-opportunities/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-energy-threats-and-opportunities/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:58:02 +0000 Nora http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-energy-threats-and-opportunities/ Stockholm Water Front No.3 2012 article

In this book review, Mr Andreas Lindström looks into the book “Water and Energy: Threats and Opportunities” by Prof Gustaf Olsson. The linkages between water and energy has quickly risen to the forefront of international attention as emerging limitations to both adequate water supplies and conventional energy sources are becoming more evident. This book can be considered one milestone in mapping this not yet well explored relationship.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/water-and-energy-threats-and-opportunities/feed/ 0 Large-scale water storage in the water, energy and food nexus: Perspectives on benefits, risks and best practice http://www.siwi.org/publication/large-scale-water-storage-in-the-water-energy-and-food-nexus-perspectives-on-benefits-risks-and-best-practice/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/large-scale-water-storage-in-the-water-energy-and-food-nexus-perspectives-on-benefits-risks-and-best-practice/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:57:31 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/large-scale-water-storage-in-the-water-energy-and-food-nexus-perspectives-on-benefits-risks-and-best-practice/ This paper provides an overview of the current status of large scale artificial water storage development and its functions in the water, energy and food security nexus. The paper presents a typology of water storage structures and provides an analysis of the risks, benefits and trade-offs posed by different storage options. It also highlights good practices and lessons learned from past experiences and explores emerging opportunities for water storage schemes to enhance water, energy and food security in the future.

Published in 2012.

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Paper, published 2012.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/options-for-cooperative-action-in-the-euphrates-and-tigris-region/feed/ 0 Managing and Developing the Water Resources (EN) http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-en/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-en/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:50:08 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-en/ The report demonstrates how effective water resources management can support sustainable economic development in sectors such as tourism, health, agriculture and industry while at the same time restoring ecosystem services in accordance with the Russian Water Act and the EU Water Framework Directive. The report outlines specific steps to be taken by the Kaliningrad Oblast internally and in partnership with its neighbours to achieve concrete benefits from better management of the water resources. Collective action amongst all the states in the Baltic Sea Region will be critical to reach the vision of a healthy Baltic Sea as agreed by the contracting partners to the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) and by the EU members States. The report is prepared in partnership with the Nordic Dimension Foundation in the Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia with input from experts from Lithuania, Poland and Sweden.

Published in 2011.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-en/feed/ 0 Managing and Developing the Water Resources (RU) http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-ru/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-ru/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:50:06 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-ru/ (this file is in Russian) The report demonstrates how effective water resources management can support sustainable economic development in sectors such as tourism, health, agriculture and industry while at the same time restoring ecosystem services in accordance with the Russian Water Act and the EU Water Framework Directive. The report outlines specific steps to be taken by the Kaliningrad Oblast internally and in partnership with its neighbours to achieve concrete benefits from better management of the water resources. Collective action amongst all the states in the Baltic Sea Region will be critical to reach the vision of a healthy Baltic Sea as agreed by the contracting partners to the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) and by the EU members States. The report is prepared in partnership with the Nordic Dimension Foundation in the Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia with input from experts from Lithuania, Poland and Sweden.

Published in 2011. Also available in English.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-ru/feed/ 0 Managing and Developing the Water Resources Assets in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia in Support of Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-assets-in-kaliningrad-oblast-russia-in-support-of-economic-growth-and-environmental-sustainability/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-assets-in-kaliningrad-oblast-russia-in-support-of-economic-growth-and-environmental-sustainability/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:50:04 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-assets-in-kaliningrad-oblast-russia-in-support-of-economic-growth-and-environmental-sustainability/ The report demonstrates how effective water resources management can support sustainable economic development in sectors such as tourism, health, agriculture and industry while at the same time restoring ecosystem services in accordance with the Russian Water Act and the EU Water Framework Directive. The report outlines specific steps to be taken by the Kaliningrad Oblast internally and in partnership with its neighbours to achieve concrete benefits from better management of the water resources. Collective action amongst all the states in the Baltic Sea Region will be critical to reach the vision of a healthy Baltic Sea as agreed by the contracting partners to the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) and by the EU members States. The report is prepared in partnership with the Nordic Dimension Foundation in the Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia with input from experts from Lithuania, Poland and Sweden.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/managing-and-developing-the-water-resources-assets-in-kaliningrad-oblast-russia-in-support-of-economic-growth-and-environmental-sustainability/feed/ 0 Regional Water Intelligence Report – The Nile Basin and the Southern Sudan Referendum http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-the-nile-basin-and-the-southern-sudan-referendum/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-the-nile-basin-and-the-southern-sudan-referendum/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:49:16 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-the-nile-basin-and-the-southern-sudan-referendum/ Regional Water Intelligence Reports The purpose of the Regional Water Intelligence Reports (RWIR) is to provide regular updates on the political economy of transboundary water resources issues, management and development. The RWIR focuses on the socio-economic aspects of water management and highlight the links between water, energy, food and human security from a regional perspective. This RWIR provides an analysis of the political landscape at the national and regional level in the Nile Basin including a political and legal analysis of the upcoming Southern Sudan referendum 2011. The objective is to prepare a base line to analyse key political events and their potential impact on Nile cooperation, within the framework of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), with a specific focus on the upcoming referendum in Southern Sudan. Some recommendations are explored that the international community could consider taking in the post referendum process to strengthen development and cooperation. The analysis of political events provides input to further analysis on the political economy of water in the Nile basin. The report does not provide a detailed overview of the NBI process to date which is provided elsewhere. Input to the RWIR is based on public referenced information and confidential interviews.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-the-nile-basin-and-the-southern-sudan-referendum/feed/ 0 Regional Water Intelligence Report Central Asia http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-central-asia/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-central-asia/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:45:46 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-central-asia/ Water is an increasingly strategic resource in the Central Asian region for economic and social development. Water cuts across critical issues such as food and fibre production, energy generation, environmental sustainability and human security.

This paper highlights these issues and their inter-linkages and targets the Aral Sea Basin, with focus on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Afghanistan (also a part of the basin) and influential neighboring countries like China and Russia are part of the regional analysis.

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