You can find the BluElephant at the Dutch festival Zwarte Cross. The BluElephant was born out of urgency. Where our water system is a given in the Net...

Every 2 years, the international water sector meets in the circular water hub Singapore. Sander Mager director (AGV), Koen Maathuis (Strategic Advisor...

Mindu Dam is the main source of drinking water for Morogoro, Tanzania. About 80% of the water supplied by MORUWASA, the local water company, comes fro...

Last month three Ethiopian water utilities went on an exposure visit to Kenya to get inspired on how to deal with feacal sludge treatment. Accompanied...

The Suriname Water Company (SWM) and World Waternet have launched the cooperation agreement for a Water Operating Partnership (WOP). World Waternet ha...

Embracing the power of every voice in watermanagement

Access to drinking water is crucial, yet in many communities children and woman have to walk as far as 40 kilometres (!) to collect water. With the su...

As briefly covered in the news, parts of Eastern Africa are being hit by floods caused by heavy rainfall. Unfortunately, this has already claimed many...

I’m Lara, a project leader at Waternet, working on the Makandra IWRM project in Suriname. This week, we analyzed issues and stakeholders in the Sarakr...

My Journey into Water Management in Suriname.

With 10 provincial water utilities (nampapa) joining live and 8 online, each province of Lao PDR was represented in the annual conference of WOP Water...

Kees van der Lugt is Regional Manager for the Middle East and Northern Africa. In this blog, he explains abou the challenges of running a Water Operat...