When the citizens of Lapilang, a village in the northeastern region of Nepal, needed fresh drinking water, they would collect their buckets and set out on an hours long journey up a steep mountainside overlooking the foothill
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- Event RecordingThe Sustainable Water Partnership’s Water Security Improvement (WSI) process helps stakeholders address water-related risks in a specific geographic area.
- Event RecordingNew Beginnings in Transboundary Water Cooperation
- BlogImproving water security means empowering everyone — water managers and users, businesses, and citizens — to regularly assess and address water risks.
- BlogWater fuels every aspect of life. It’s essential for basic health and hygiene, and it drives society’s most essential industries: agriculture, energy and transportation. Without water security there can be no national security.
- BlogIt’s 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 31, in Stockholm, Sweden. For five days now, the halls of the Stockholm City Conference Centre have been humming with the impassioned discussions of more than 3,200 water experts, decision-makers, private sector representatives and thought leaders. They’ve gathered here from over 130 countries for World Water Week, the largest annual conference of its kind in the world. Here at the end of the week, amid hundreds of panels, presentations and plenaries, the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) is hoping to make a splash.
- BlogJohn Parker of SWP partner Tetra Tech explains how natural flows support the environment.
- BlogFlood resilience goes beyond mere survival, say panelists at Sustainable Water Partnership event.
- BlogA combination of risk and receptivity fuel a promising SWP activity in Kenya and Tanzania.
- BlogSWP’s panel of experts discusses how best to address challenges of poor water quality.