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China water sector cooperation programme

Nora — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:11:17 +0000

This programme will support water quality management and governance for the Chinese water resources sector. It will further serve to strengthen cooperation between Sweden and China in the area of water management and associated activities. The programme will develop a capacity building course on integrated water quality management (IWQM); facilitate twinning arrangements between basins in Europe and China, focusing on the management of pollution prevention and control; and provide technical support to policy makers to determine how economic instruments can be tailored and applied in China. SIWI will also provide input and capacity building on international event management to support the preparations for a future bi-annual forum on water quality that will be hosted MEP beginning in 2014.

Project Info

Project Team: Anton Earle, John Joyce, Josh Weinberg
Partners: Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (MEP-FECO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan University
Co-finanaced by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection Foreign Economic Cooperation Office and Sida
Timeline: November 2012 – December 2013

Policy Support and Barriers to Resource Management in Water Scarce Regions

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:57:23 +0000

This article reports about results of the work conducted in China as part of an EU-funded Coordination Action (mai-tai: Managing Water Scarcity Intelligent tools and cooperative strategies). This was done in collaboration with the Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Development Research Centre of the Chinese Ministry of Water Re-sources and Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Article in Stockholm Water Front, issue no 2, 2012.

Water Needs Curtail Coal Gasification For Fuel

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:51:49 +0000

Ordos, China all silvery pipes and steel pressure vessels, the Shenhua Groups breakthrough new refinery, stretched across a kilometre of Inner Mongolias sand and scrub, has attracted global attention as a curious feat of technology and as an imposing challenge to Chinas environment and modernisation.

Article in Stockholm Water Front, issue no 4, 2011.

New issue of Stockholm Water Front out now!

Nora — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:17:53 +0000

The global water community has been charting creative policy solutions to address challenges related to water for decades, often calling on the private sector to adopt, adapt and adhere to such plans. Today, we are happy to see some of these creative solutionsturn into innovative partnerships between different actors. Opening the recent Stockholm +40 Conference, the Swedish Minister of International Cooperation, Ms. Gunilla Carlsson, highlighted the Sweden Textile Water Initiative (STWI) as an example of such innovation. Under the initiative, 32 Swedish textile and leather companies joined forces with SIWI to improve water use throughout their supply chains. In its pilot inception project, 12 textile factories in Bangladesh were able to reduce their water use by 75 million litres of water, and their use of chemicals by 6 million kilogrammes in just one year.

The World Water Week will also host the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Water Resources Economics Consortium (IWREC), which will bring a host of world leading economists to give valuable input into the week’s deliberations. On page 9, readers can get an insight on why it is important to set a value for water to be able to achieve a positive change. This issue of the Stockholm Water Front also includes two examples of working with communities in remote countryside regions in China and Kenya. The first article explores whether Chinese policies can bring development to the People’s Republic’s water-scarcest regions, while the other article explores a pilot project in a remote Kenyan region that aimed to increase community participation through increasing awareness of “water as a human right.”

More SIWI news related to projects, prizes and partners are also included in this issue of Stockholm Water Front. Please do not hesitate to give us feedback on any issue you read in this magazine, by sending an email to waterfront@siwi.org.

Water Transfers from Agriculture: China’s Challenge

Nora — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:41:55 +0000

Water resource exploitation has silently supported the blossoming Chinese economy for decades. Unfortunately, that rapid development has ended with depleted rivers and aquifers and degraded water and soil. China is responding with new thinking, policies and technologies to manage water.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 2 2009.