Today we announce a new partnership that will connect leading water policy practitioners with an academic network working at the forefront of multidisciplinary water research. Water Policy Group (WPG) and the University of New South Wales Global Water Institute (UNSW-GWI) are pleased to announce the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding to support and …
Mercedes Castro joins Water Policy Group
Water Policy Group members are pleased to announce that Ms Mercedes Castro Garcia has joined the Group as its ninth member. Water Policy Group is a network of recognised water sector experts with direct experience in working with water policy issues in and with governments. Members share a common goal to harness their unique skills …
Water Policy Group Statement on COVID-19: Water and Global Solidarity
Access to clean water and sanitation is essential for containment of COVID-19. Without water, hand hygiene is not possible and without water to the home, home based quarantine is not possible. Yet it has been estimated three billion people have no water service to the home, 785 million people have no access to any basic …
Water Policy Group at Budapest Water Summit
Water Policy Group has been active at Budapest Water Summit 15-17 October 2019 through participation by Tony Slatyer in a plenary session on international water architecture, a side event on science and policy, and a Corvinus University workshop on water cooperation in Central Asia. See link for further details.
Getting on Track with SDG 6 – a Role for Multilateral Processes
Policy scaffolding helps governments to move forward with the difficult decisions. Find out more from Tony Slatyer’s speech at the Sustainable Water Future Conference..
Water Policy, Globally and in Australia: An Overview
WPG member, Tony delivers a keynote speech on water policy and public health at the Austalian Public Health Conference 2019 in Adelaide, Australia. Read the full text here..
1st World Summit on Leaving No One Behind
The 1st World Summit on Leaving No One Behind was launched with opening speeches from Michael Moller (Director General of the United Nations) and Francis Gurry (Secretary General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)), Amanda Loeffen (Director General of Waterlex) and Tom SOO (IWRA Executive Board Member and member of the Water Policy Group) …
Mobilising water that is fit for purpose augments capacity to deal with water security
This report, published by IWRA, “collects and examines examples of existing recommendations for influent water quality, as applied to various human and ecosystem uses. It provides robust reference and analysis of existing water quality guidelines. Building on these case studies, the report explores new perspectives, and raises pertinent questions for future work on the topic, …
Webinar: Sustainable Development Goals and Water
Date: Friday, 23 November 2018 – Friday, 30 November 2018 Tony Slatyer presents an online shortcourse on the Sustainable Development Goals and Water A deeper dive into the context, commitments, reporting and implementation. In this interactive course you will gain a deeper understanding of the context and content of the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals relevant …