We never know the worth of water until the well is dry - Thomas Fuller
Invitation to the World Water Day Event 2016
We are happy to invite you to the World Waterday Event on Thursday March 24th at the New Church in the Hague.
Participation is free. There is a limited set of places, you can register until March 16th 2016.
This year's World Water Day is in cooperation with various partners: the municipality of The Hague, PlanNetherlands,VitensInternational,Dutch WaterAuthorities,EmpowerPeople, SkillsTown,Arcadis, Foundation forWaterEducation,National WaterTraineeship,
Young ExpertProgramme (YEP), The Netherlands Water Partnership and Aqua for All. It promises to be an interactive afternoon with interesting keynotes and break-out sessions by the parties involved and lots of networking opportunities. Will you join us (again) this year?
Walking for Water 2016 Kicks of this week
With UN World Water Day just around the corner the 14th annual Walking for Water Campaign kicks off this week with BIG walks in Katwijk, Apeldoorn and Enschede where over 900 students will be walking! We expect to pass an important milestone by the end of campaign 2016 – Dutch kids will have walked about 1.4m kilometres, raising over €10m since the campaign started in 2003! Pretty impressive! We’ll announce estimated results at the Dutch World Water Day celebration on March 24th!
MINI NETWORK
New types of mini and mid-scale water grid networks are emerging as an alternative to traditional large scale public utilities.
This year we will support the #Blue4Water Movement, an initiative of our strategic partner The Millennium Water Alliance. This week we will post different water related messages using the #Blue4Water on our social media. #Blue4Water asks people all over the world to post a photo of themselves wearing blue and use the hashtag #Blue4Water. Don’t have a blue article or clothing? That’s okay! Post a meaningful photo that shows why you care about clean water – a photo of a water drop, of your blue coffee mug, whatever! Go BLUE for World Water Day and show us why clean water is important to YOU! (Example of social media post: “I am #Blue4Water today because…”)
Three entrepreneurs receive funding for their pilot Entrepreneurs Sanivation, Hydroponics and Trace, all based in Kenya, recently received funding for their business pilots. The entrepreneurs participated in the recently finished VIA Water Innovation Challenge managed by Africa Funded. Africa Funded visited the entrepreneurs on site and continues to support them during the pilots to validate and fine-tune their business models.
10 highlights from the Sankalp Africa session on water & sanitation innovation
On February 25th-26th, the Sankalp Africa Summit 2016 was held in Nairobi, Kenya and focused on opportunities for inclusive and high-impact enterprises. One of the key sector based sessions focused on Innovative Business
Solutions for Waterand Sanitation Services, was hosted by Dick Bouman, Fund Manager of VIA Water at Aqua for All.
First PPP Café
The first PPPCafé took place on the 25th of February at the New World Campus in The Hague. The main issue that this PPPCafé put on the table was if PPPs are really unusual business, meaning business that is innovative, sustainable and has social impact and reaches the BoP as one of the main goals.
