World Water Congress and Exhibition: Shaping Our Water Future

By: Sarah Ward on 9th Oct 2018

Between 16-21 September, 9,815 participants from 98 countries, representing governments, utilities, academia, private companies, and international organisations, came together at Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo Exhibition Centre) to participate in a strategic platform discussing and co-creating solutions to our global... Read more »

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Water security in the parks and gardens of Hermosillo

By: David Ruiz López on 21st Aug 2018

David Ruiz is a senior undergraduate student majoring in Public Administration at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico. David won the International Water Security Network Student Prize 2018. He is interested in water security issues related to greenspace... Read more »

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Students reflect on the 2018 Insaka Research Symposium

By: Busani Masiri, Jerit Dube and Diilwe Syamuntu on 12th Jul 2018

The 2018 Insaka Research Symposium was hosted by South African National Parks (SANParks) at Mopane Camp in Kruger National Park. It was a four-day event (11–14 June 2018) focusing on the theme ‘sustaining the ecosystem service benefits from green... Read more »

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Connecting people with nature for water on World Water Day

By: Chad Staddon, Sarah Ward on 10th Apr 2018

As the UN had decided that ‘the answer is in nature’, with nature-based solutions forming the theme of this year’s World Water Day (22nd March), the International Water Security Network took up the challenge and organised a range of... Read more »

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New project to research ‘green infrastructure for water security policy’

By: Richard Meissner on 14th Mar 2018

Water security is an important issue as well as an all-encompassing notion in the socio-economic development of communities, cities, provinces and countries. Achieving water security at these levels is a complex undertaking involving a number of stakeholders and management... Read more »

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3rd IWSN Winter Conference takes place in Bristol

on 22nd Jan 2018

PhD and MSc students supported by the International Water Security Network gathered in Bristol for the annual winter conference on water-related resilience on 15-16 January 2018.  There were 18 presentations on a variety of topics ranging from water and... Read more »

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Protecting the páramos and mangroves: water challenges for Colombia

By: Sarah Ward on 1st Nov 2017

As the second most biodiverse country on the planet, Colombia is rightly taking post-conflict sustainable development and economic growth seriously. During my recent two-week stay, I was able to take in perspectives in two contrasting cities with similar water... Read more »

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First Peruvian Congress Agua-Andes: Science-policy dialogues for sustainable development

By: Chad Staddon and Bram Willems on 25th Oct 2017

A long time in the planning, it was great to see the Congress Agua-Andes (the first of its kind in Peru) take place so successfully. There were 300 people in the auditorium on the opening day (which was simultaneously... Read more »

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Mind the gap – finding the next step on the urban drainage journey

By: Sarah Ward on 4th Oct 2017

Dr Sarah Ward is currently a research fellow at UWE and a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter, with both her roles focusing on water, resilience and cities. She recently had the pleasure of attending the 14th... Read more »

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IWSN Director at World Water Week in Stockholm

By: Chad Staddon on 18th Sep 2017

World Water Week, which took place over five days in Stockholm, saw over 3,200 participants from 133 countries attend several hundred sessions, share experiences, and discuss solutions to the world’s most critical water challenges. It was, as always, full... Read more »

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