Category Archives: IWRM
Earth Day was my ‘Aha!’ Moment
Alessandra Giolo is completing Masters degrees in Global Environmental Politics and in Environmental Science at Sodertorn and Stockholm University. Her dissertation is on Transboundary Water Management. She is an intern at the GWP global secretariat, and this blog is her … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Development, Earth Day, Ecosystems, GWP, IWRM, Partnership, Sustainable Development, Water resources management, Water security
Tagged activism, Earth Day, Environment, Global Water Partnership, sustainability, water, water governance, water management, water resources management, water risk, water security, water stress
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Innovation and IWRM in Central American communities
Civil Engineer Axel Martinez, 26, from Nicaragua, spent five months as a Young Professional Development Initiative Intern under GWP’s Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP). He worked in GWP Central America’s regional office from August to December 2018. In this blog post, he shares reflections on his activities. Central America is a … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Drought, Floods, Gender, GWP, IWRM, Partnership, SDGs, Youth
Tagged Central America, innovation, intern, internship, IWRM, Youth
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Making water and life simple to understand
Dr. Danka Thalmeinerova, former Senior Knowledge Management Officer at Global Water Partnership, reviews a recently-published book about… what else? Water! As a former senior knowledge management officer in a top water organization, I believed that one couldn’t say anything really … Continue reading
Posted in IWRM, Water resources management
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My wardrobe malfunction and wastewater
March 22 is World Water Day and this year (2017) the theme is wastewater. GWP offers two blogs about this subject. The first, by Dr. Danka Thalmeinerova, GWP Senior Knowledge Management Officer, explains why she is going to re-think her … Continue reading
Posted in GWP, IWRM, Sustainable Development, Water Pollution, World Water Day
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How to Write an IWRM Teaching Manual
It takes a lot of coffee, innumerable flip charts, face to face meetings, long hours of concentration, textual analysis, and sharing experiences. Two GWP interns share their experience of the workshop that finalized GWP’s IWRM ToolBox Teaching Manual. By Sarah … Continue reading
Posted in IWRM, Partnership, Water resources management
Tagged education, Global Water Partnership, GWP, IWRM, toolbox, university, workshop
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Water: A no-brainer for the post-2015 agenda
The following blog article was written by the Global Water Partnership for “Outreach“, a multi-stakeholder publication on climate change and sustainable development, produced by Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, in relation to GWP’s participation at COP19 in Warsaw, Poland. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, COP19, Floods, IWRM, Partnership, Sustainable Development, UNFCCC
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Invest in the Future!
Helene Komlos Grill, Senior Communications Officer at the Global Water Partnership, attended the Budapest Water Summit 8-11 October 2013. These are her reflections about the Summit. “Close your eyes and listen”, my colleague Dr Danka Thalmeinerova, GWP Senior Knowledge Management … Continue reading
A Salute to the ERRC
GWP Senior Knowledge Management Officer Dr. Danka Thalmeinerova attended the 5th European River Restoration Conference (ERRC) in Vienna on 11-13 September 2013. Counting the number of conferences I have attended, this year has been special. All organizations and world leaders … Continue reading
Posted in IWRM, Rivers, Transboundary, Water resources management
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How to Ruin a Lake
GWP Senior Network Officer Gabriela Grau recently attended a Forum on Transboundary Basins Management in Guatemala. As part of the forum, participants visited Lake Amatitlan. Gabriela came away saddened by what she saw: Thirty years ago this lake was a … Continue reading
Cease-Fire on IWRM
One of GWP’s strategic allies, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), posted a mildly critical blog of the integrated approach to water resources management (IWRM). To invite debate, GWP re-posted it to its own blog. Below is a response by … Continue reading
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