Water
Theme Introduction
Date: 3 June
Time: 14:00-16:00
A panel conversation will highlight key examples, which each indicate one small step in a much larger story of change. Particular examples will illustrate complementary points of innovations and interventions required to manage a transition into a socially and ecologically functioning water and sanitation infrastructure. The purpose of the water theme introduction discussion is to weave these stories together and give a sense of what complementary actions and policies would be required to go from promising practices to the transformative change we require.
Invited participants to this panel include:
Jakob Granit, SIWI, Sweden
Sunita Narain, Centre for Science and Environment, India
Chair: Jan Eliasson, Former Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Darfur
You can also find the session on our on-line community.
The projects
In the area of Water, a large number of ventures and projects building on innovations and new approaches will be showcased and developed further, each indicating one small step in the much larger context of change.
These initiatives include waste and waste water handling, sanitation solutions and access to water.
Water for All Always, Development Alternatives
Development Alternatives, in cooperation with the public charitable foundation Arghyam, has initiated a project to increase water security in Bundelkhand, India, by involving the community in developing and delivering solutions.
Selling manual water pumps for efficient irrigation, KickStart
KickStart has developed a line of manually operated pumps, each pump providing a simple irrigation solution for up to two acres of land. This has allowed farmers to grow higher value crops, also during the dry season. This product currently expands across Africa.
Selling small, simple sanitation solutions, Peepoople
Peepoople has re-thought the problem of lacking sanitation facilities. By using a bottom up approach, they have created a simple viable solution that will be able to reach the most poor.
Creating efficient irrigation markets, REDEH - Network for Human Development
Development of an agricultural economy through efficient drip irrigation systems at the base of the pyramid. The initiative works with leading international companies, governments, universities and financial institutions to build capacity of small farmer cooperatives to buy and finance irrigation kits.
A global campaign to build awareness on sanitation and commercialize sanitation products, The World Toilet Organisation
The World Toilet Organisation is building the market infrastructure for an efficient sanitation marketplace. The ability as neutral party to convene and unite the whole global sanitation community to collaborate is unprecedented. The goal is to have completed the, so called, SaniShop franchise manual and field test it within next 12 months and to roll-out SaniShop franchises in all of Mekong region in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma.
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