Climate Resilience: Access to Water Supply and Sanitation, a Training Course
On 15-20 September the West Africa Capacity Building Network (WA-Net) held the 2019 training course on "Climate Change Resilience: Access to Water Supply and Sanitation" at the National Water Resources Institute in Kaduna, Nigeria.
Leadership and research methods: Training for women water engineers from 4 South Asian countries
From 26 August to 7 September SaciWATERs and Anna University with funding from IDRC, Canada and UNDP Cap-Net (SCaN: SaciWATERs Cap-Net Network) held a regional training workshop on ‘Leadership and research methods for interdisciplinary water research’ in Chennai, India.
"Hannah Crichton-Smith, Sustainable WASH officer at WaterAid tells GDI about her experience of an online water well drilling training programme"
Reminder: Submit your abstract for the 6th International Symposium on Knowledge and Capacity for the Water Sector
Cap-Net is a partner organisation, and jointly with Global Water Partnership we will lead the topic on: "Capacity to accelerate knowledge sharing and commitment among individuals and organisations across civil society": How do we share our knowledge, and how can we stimulate ownership and greater responsibility about water matters among our staff, families, society and current and future generations.
We invite abstracts of high-quality papers with particular attention to the Symposium focus on leadership in knowledge and capacity development across sectors, disciplines, geographies and other boundaries. Abstracts (400-500 words) must be submitted by 14 November 2019. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their abstract by 12 December 2019. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to provide either a full paper (4000-10,000 words) by 29 February 2020, or a complete description for a poster. Click on the image to learn more
Video of the Month:
Solving The Global Water Crisis in 7 Minutes | Hamza Farrukh
Hamza Farrukh, and his team at Bondh E Shams (The Solar Water Project) have developed a cost-effective and transportable solution for the global water crisis. Their innovation, the OASIS BOX (Off-Grid Aqua Solar Integration System) provides 25 years of safe water to 2,000 people in just $10,000. Each liter of water is 3,000 times less expensive than bottled water and is delivered free of cost to vulnerable communities; Bondh E Shams have begun work in Pakistan, Bangladesh & South Sudan and want to reach every single one of the 1.2bn people without safe water. Could this be the most scalable tool in our fight against the global water crisis? Founder, Bondh-E-Shams This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnTgx11eQ74