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Sustainable Water Resource Management (SWAR)

Sanna — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:38:05 +0000

With co-financing from Sida, a programme introducing Sustainable WAter Resource (SWAR) Management for textile industries in Delhi and Jaipur is implemented by Indiska, KappAhl, and Lindex, 39 of their Indian suppliers and sub-suppliers, and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).

SIWI is tasked with the overall project management, and contributes with policy research, outreach efforts and reporting. SIWI and the buying companies have formed a Management Group (MG) that meets regularly over the course of the project to plan and monitor implementation in close touch with the Indian consultant, cKinetics. The consultant’s role is to identify saving opportunities, build capacities, and provide technical assistance to the Indian factories throughout the programme.

The model that this project works on showcases opportunities for resource-savings, which lead to increased profitability margins. The participating units will then receive training and technical sup-port to achieve such savings on both the short- and long-term.

The SWAR programme involves 16 factories in the National Capital Region of Delhi, of which seven dyeing and printing and nine garment units; the factories are spread out over an area of 2,000 km2. In Rajasthan, the Jaipur Integrated Texcraft Park Ltd (JITP or ‘Jaipur Bloc’) is a new and aspiring state-of-the-art textile park set up some 25 km outside Jaipur with support from the Government of India’s ‘Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks’.

As members of the JITP, 13 hand-block printing factories and four partly new and relatively small dyeing factories have signed up to the SWAR programme (the JITP also counts as a SWAR unit). These are prepared to move and start operating as soon as all due consents are in place and the Park officially opened (tentatively in September); some block printing units are however already in full swing. The Park and its facilities being new, assessments, baseline figures, systems for tracking and measuring resource consumption, equipment and savings advice and targets all look different compared with the Delhi factories. The programme is hence divided into four different segments: Delhi dyeing units; Delhi garment units; Jaipur dyeing units; and Jaipur block print units, respectively. These have by necessity been treated differently along with the diverge conditions and needs applying to them.

Both the financing and technical models of this programme have so far received significant attention in Sweden, India and internationally.

Project Info

Project Team: Rami Abdelrahman, Jenny Grönwall
Partners: Indiska, KappAhl, Lindex and 39 of their suppliers and sub-suppliers in Delhi and Jaipur.
Consultant: cKinetics
Co-financed by: project partners and Sida.
Timeline: 2013-2014

SIWI discusses Sustainable Water Solutions at the World Justice Forum in The Hague

Sanna — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:44:17 +0000

Water is the most basic necessity for life. Yet, access to safe drinking water affects almost half of the world’s population, particularly those in developing countries.

On Wednesday July 10, SIWI’s Dr. Anders Jägerskog will take part as a panellist in a session on Sustainable Water Solutions held at the World Justice Forum in The Hague. The session will place an emphasis on better management of water resources, as well as sanitation and hygiene.

The panel will discuss the important improvements needed in order promote better access to safe drinking water; the role of technology and governments in water management and infrastructure; and the importance of water safety in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

Water and Sustainability: A Reappraisal

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:24 +0000

In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) analysed the environmental problems of the time. It presented as its core idea the concept of sustainable development, with the goal of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The committees guiding image of the world followed the mainstream idea at the time of environmental problems as pollution and land degradation. The committee paid no particular attention to crucial environmental resources such as water, nor did it examine fundamental environmental constraints that would influence the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Published in the March/April 2008 issue of Environment Magazine.

Click here to read the article.

Stockholm Water Front No. 4 2001

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:29:58 +0000

This Water Front presents the workshop conclusions of World Water Week 2001. Some of the workshop topics were about the relation between industry and other water interests in a catchment context, the driving forces and incentives for change towards sustainable water development, and how you can increase the status of water issues in policy-making and in the public perception.

SIWI at Rio+20 – Key Messages and Sessions

Nora — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:30:45 +0000

SIWI will take an active part in the Rio+20 summit:

Key messages

SIWI has prepared a Key Messages document, which provides a series of priorities on water issues to be included in the outcomes of Rio+20. The main points are:

Access to drinking water and sanitation is a human right: A sustainable development goal on water must set targets for achieving universal access.
Set a sustainable development goal on water for improved water efficiency, reduced water pollution and improved wastewater management.
Set a sustainable development goal on energy and food security and include targets to significantly increase water use efficiency.
Integrate water in climate adaptation and mitigation policy and implementation at all levels.
Call for more effective cooperation on transboundary waters.
Establish good water governance as a prerequisite for sustainable development.

Read the full document

Session involvement

SIWI will be involved in the following sessions:

TUESDAY 12 JUNE
16.00-18.00, Water Security: Growing Multiple Needs and Scarcity. (Pontifical Catholic University Rua Marquês São Vicente, 225 – Gávea).
Session Convenors: UNESCO-IHP, GWSP.

18.00-20.00, Water Resources; Uncertainties and Opportunities. Case Studies from Geographic Hotspots.
(Pontifical Catholic University Rua Marquês São Vicente, 225 – Gávea).
Session Convenors: UNESCO-IHP, French Water Academy, FAO – Mountain Partnership Secretariat,
ICIWaRM.

THURSDAY 14 JUNE
17.30-19.00, UN Watercourses Convention side-event. (T-8, RioCentro).
Session Convenors: SIWI, WWF (others TBC).

FRIDAY 15 JUNE
11.00-11.40, The Water, Food and Energy Nexus – A Fundament for a Green Economy. (Common Space Conference Room CNO 3 at Athlete’s Park).
Session Convenor: SIWI and KTH.

SATURDAY 16 JUNE
9.00-10.30, Sustainable Water Use in Textile Production – A Case for Cooperation at the UN Global Compact’s Rio +20 Corporate Sustainability Forum (Windsor Barra Hotel & Congresses)
Session Convenor: The Government of Sweden.

SUNDAY 17 JUNE
11:00-13.30, The Economics of Sustainable Development, Including Sustainable Patterns of Production
and Consumption. (Venue TBC).
Session Convenor: TBC.

MONDAY 18 JUNE
9.30-11:00, Mountain Knowledge Solutions for Improved Water, Food, Energy and Environment Nexus (P3-A, RioCentro).
Co-convenors: ICIMOD, SIWI, Govt. of Nepal, Mountain Partnership, EVK2CNR and GGCA.

14.00-14.40, Sweden Textile Water Initiative Session (Common Space Conference Room CNO 4 at Athlete’s Park).
Session Convenor: SIWI

TUESDAY 19 JUNE
09.30-13.00, Water Day

17.30-21.00, Part 1: Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), Benefiting Countries for a Sustainable and Equitable Future. Interactive Policy Dialogue and Launch of the UN-Water Report on Water Resources Management. Access to Water & Sanitation, Reflections on the Rio +20 Outcome document. (Venues TBC).
Convenor: UN-Water.

Part 2: Water and Sanitation as a Human Right. International Year of Water Cooperation and World
Water Day 2013. (Venue TBC).
Convenor: UN-Water.