Welcome to the first interview in the Kini interview series. In today's interview, I speak with Chris O'Neill and environmental engineer and the financial director of Hydronumerics whose mission is to bring innovative, state-of-the-art and solution based services to the global water industry.

Chris is based in Melbourne and in this interview, we will discuss:
- His work in Australia, India and Brazil.
- How he got started with working in India
- His ideas for authentic international collaboration to address water management
- How to build relationships with communities and
- His advice for people who want to get involved professionally with water management in developing countries.

Enjoy this interview and conversation with Chris.

Chris O'Neill - Applied environmental engineering for improved catchment management in India

Peter is based out of Cairns in tropical North Queensland and Peter's activities area mostly focused on the Pacific Island Nations. In this interview, we are going to discuss his current projects in Papua New Guinea and in Vanuatu. Peter takes us into the villages where he works, sharing how he approaches communities and sharing how he has been successful in implementing water supply, environmental monitoring and sanitation delivery projects.

In this interview, we discuss community perceptions of water, community assets vs private assets for water and the potential and the very real role of community water champions for community water stewardship as well as the role of the boutique consulting firm in international development.

I hope this interview will interest and inspire you and in a sense also transport you to the heart of community life in the Pacific.

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Peter Sharry Interview – Community-based water management approaches in the Pacific

Welcome to the 2nd interview in the Kini Interview series. Today we are interviewing Brad Moggridge from the University of Canberra.

Brad is from the Kamilorai nation from North Western, NSW from a large and proud extended family. He grew up in Western Sydney and now lives in Canberra.

Brad is currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Canberra and he is also the Indigineous Liaison Officer at the National Environmental Science Program (Threatened Species Recovery Hub).

In this interview we discuss many things. We talk about

• diversity of Aboriginal Knowledge meanings of traditional and scientific knowledge
• developing credible evidence to back up traditional knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems
• opportunities for bringing Aboriginal and indigenous people into the research process

We hope you enjoy this interview. For more updates please visit www.Kini.org.au.

Brad Moggridge – Traditional Knowledge & Scientific Knowledge: pros and cons in water management

Tari Bowling is an Integrated Water Management practitioner and PhD student with 15 years’ experience encompassing the fields of WASH and nutrition, Community Led Total Sanitation, participatory community development, environmental management, and water resource management with a focus on project integration.
Tari has over seven years’ experience in Laos, in remote areas, working with development organisations and private industry on project proposals and development in WASH and nutrition.
Tari also has nine years’ experience working at state and local government levels in Australia in the fields of large scale and rural/urban catchment management.
She is currently undertaking a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland measuring impacts of integrated WASH and nutrition projects in the Asia Pacific region in light of Sustainable Development Goal 6 - Water and Sanitation.
Her focal areas are on social behaviour change communication and institutional change to achieve long term health outcomes through integrated WASH and nutrition programmes.
In this interview, we discuss SDGs and their implementation, her experience working in Lao, and opportunities for making progress to achieve SDG 6.

Tari Bowling – Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and implementing WASH programs in Laos

Zenia Tata is the Executive Director, Global Expansion at XPRIZE. 
Her areas of expertise include program design, management, and business development for not-for-profit organizations and business enterprises.

XPRIZE is a non-profit innovation engine that is striving to push the limits of what’s possible. Learn more about XPRIZE here. The Water Abundance XPRIZE is global competition with a USD$1.75 million prize purse. Team registrations for the competition closes on Friday, April 28th. Learn more about the Water Abundance XPRIZE at water.xprize.org

Zenia talks extensively on the work being done by XPRIZE on making affordable and scalable innovation available to billions of people across the globe.

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Zenia Tata, XPRIZE – The Importance of Funding Innovation for the Benefit of Humanity

Welcome to the seventh interview in the Kini Interview series. Today we talk to Prof. Quentin Grafton, an economist from the Australian National University who works at the nexus between Food, Water, Energy, and the Environment.

In this interview Quentin discusses:

•	The future of food and farming in light of growing 2008 / 2009 food crises that is linked to water scarcity problems.
•	Networks and resources that may be used to learn more about these issues and engage with these problems.
•	Participatory planning processes used to develop policy on how to address these future problems.
•	Examples from the Asia Pacific region where these issues are prevalent and how they are playing out

Please enjoy this far reaching, and inspiring discussion with Prof. Quentin Grafton.

Prof. Quentin Grafton – The Water-Food-Energy Nexus and Addressing Wicked Problems

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Welcome to the eighth interview in the Kini Interview series. Today we talk to Tony Slatyer, the Special Advisor for the High Level Panel on Water for the Australian Government. 

Tony’s previous roles include having been head of the Water Division and its predecessor Divisions of the Commonwealth Government for over nine years. 

Prior to this he was directly involved at the Division Head level in the making of the National Water Initiative, the Living Murray and other national water reforms of that time. 

In this interview, we discuss:
-	What is the High Level Panel on Water, and what its mandate is
-	Why SDG 6, the SDG focused on water, is important for achieving the other SDGs
-	Australia’s initiative as a part of the High Level Panel on Water: the World Water Data Initiative

Please enjoy this far insightful, and inspiring discussion with Tony Slatyer.

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Tony Slatyer: The High Level Panel on Water, its Initiatives, and Sustainable Development Goal 6

Welcome to the next interview in the Kini Interview Series with Virak Chan, a water and sanitation specialist and a focal point for the Cambodian Water Sector. Virak manages sanitation projects for the World Bank. He also works to support the Cambodian government on decentralization reforms and water resource management initiatives.

In this interview Virak and Karen discuss:
• Decentralizing the functions of the national government in Cambodia to sub-national or local government to achieve more effective sanitation outcomes. 
• A new initiative in the region called the Centre for Sustainable Water aiming to develop local capacity in the Cambodian water sector and beyond.
• The role of integrated water management in the Mekong region as a driver for collaboration and innovation.
• Promoting leadership through facilitating better knowledge sharing

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Virak Chan - Addressing water knowledge capacity challenges in Cambodia

Welcome to the next interview in the Kini Interview Series with Darryl Day, managing director for ICE WaRM (International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management).

In this interview we discuss:
1. Developing international partnerships, particularly betweeen Australia and Nepal
2. Gender inclusion and development of water policies

We hope you enjoy this insightful interview. Listen to other great interviews with leading water practitioners at http://www.kini.org.au.

Darryl Day - Australia's Sustainable Development Portfolio and Nepalese-Australian Partnership

Welcome to the next interview in the Kini Interview Series with Pritha Hariram. Pritha is an experienced water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) specialist having worked on humanitarian relief and development projects in the Asia Pacific region. 

She has technical experience in the planning, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of community WASH projects. Pritha is experienced in source water monitoring, treatment works design and management, distribution system operation and maintenance and consumer use. She has worked for public, private, governmental and donor agencies in Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Maldives, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Solomon Islands.

Presently, Pritha is the IWA's Program Manager for the Water and Sanitation Services program. The program aims to afford a range of target audiences including service providers, regulators, and financial institutions with best practices in achieving universal access and improved service delivery of water supply and sanitation. 

Prior to joining IWA, Pritha was an Urban Development Specialist with the Asian Development Bank where her primary role was to lead in the identification, development, implementation, and administration of loans and grants for urban water and sanitation programs in South Asia. 

Pritha also has extensive experience in hazard analysis and risk management of drinking water and wastewater systems to safeguard public health and improve operation and maintenance efficiency through her work in private and public utilities. 

In this interview we discuss:
1. Pritha's association with IWA
2. Importance of multidisciplinary teams,
3. Women in water
4. Why integrated water management is the way for the water industry

We hope you enjoy this insightful interview. Listen to other great interviews with leading water practitioners at http://www.kini.org.au.

Pritha Hariram – Partnerships for improved development aid, performance tools, and women in water

Welcome to the next interview in the Kini Interview Series with William Spitzenberg and Jason Jaskowiak from the American Samoa Power Authority (Water Division).

In this interview we discuss:
1. Address non-revenue water losses in American Samoa
2. Building capacity for practical management of old leadking piped water systems in the Pacific
3. The types of metering and piping systems that can be incrementally applied to resolve non-revenue water losses and improve water management
4. Using Advanced Metering Infrastructure and water balance spreadshees to improve data management and develop benchmarking systems to improve water supply outcomes.
5. Secondary treatment waivers and how to negotiate the political, economic, social and technical issues surrounding their potential removal.
6. On-site wastewater treatment in the highly permeable soils of American Samoa and how to change centuries of learned behaviours.
7. How to design a wastewater treatment plant on a tropical island without secondary treatment or chlorine disinfection.
8. The need for innovative thinking that genuinely considers the constraints of the cultural context to be effective.

We hope you enjoy this insightful interview. Listen to other great interviews with leading water practitioners at www.kini.org.au.

Addressing Wastewater and Nonrevenue Water Challenges in American Samoa - Insights from the ASPA

In this follow-up interview, Tony shares updates to the High Level Panel on Water that has taken place snice his last Kini interview. 
The key updates involve:
- The publication of a video to promote global awareness about SDG6;
- The HLPW statement on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and its significance;
- The Water Innovation Engine, and funds made available to support innovation in the urban water sanitation sector;
- Progress with the World Water Data Initiative; and
- Work with the Netherlands Government to support the process of Valuing Water.

If you have been tracking the initiatives and progress of the High Level Panel on Water, it would be worth your time to have a listen. As with the first interview, Tony highlights the opportunities for individual action and involvement with these priorities.  Visit Kini (www.Kini.org.au) to listen to other great interviews with leading water practitioners.

Tony Slatyer Interview Part 2 – The High-Level Panel on Water, its Initiatives, and SDG6

Mark Pascoe is the CEO of the International WaterCentre, which provides capacity building services to water managers and their organisations and runs a variety of training programs to help develop future water leaders. In his Kini Interview, Mark shares his experience from his 40+ years in the water sector across Australia and internationally, highlighting key challenges and opportunities to achieving Integrated Water Management. In the interview, we discuss:

·      Boundary-spanning leadership and transformational change;

·      The SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership as a boundary-spanning organisation;

·      The different roles of champions, leaders, and followers; and

·      Cultivating mentoring and coaching opportunities.

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Deconstructing collaboration and partnerships, and ingredients for transformational change

Tony Weber from Alluvium talks about working on water modeling projects in China, India and Myanmar, river basin planning efforts, and water governance in the developing world and how they can be supported.

Tony is one of Australia’s leading practitioners in the catchment modelling and water quality field. Tony has over 27 years’ experience in the water industry delivering a range of catchment modelling, water sensitive urban design, integrated water management, water quality and stormwater management projects.

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Reflections on Supporting River Basin Planning Efforts in China, India and Myanmar

Karen Delfau from IWCAN talks to David Mawer from The Performance Attitude about: 
•	Gippsland Water’s waste problem and the use of integrated water management principles to resolve them.
•	The Soil and Organics Recycling Facility (SORF) and its connection to broad-acre farmers
•	Closed-loop products and the circular economy.
•	How the successes in Gippsland may be replicated in other contexts

Visit www.Kini.org.au to access David's written interview Q&A.

From Trash to Treasure: Transforming Biosolid and Organic Waste Management

Karen Delfau from IWACAN talks to Jonathan Maino from Eda Ranu about non-revenue water challenges he is facing in Port Moresby, supplying water to settlements, working BOT partners, and lessons PNG can learn from other Pacific nations.

Visit http://www.Kini.org.au to access Jonathan's written interview Q&A.

Wicked Problems in Port Moresby, PNG: Non-revenue Water and Institutional Governance Challenges

Nathan Taylor, research fellow at the University of Melbourne speaks about  quantifying the economic value of water in storage, using risk and society’s tolerance to risk and what water costs to mitigate that risk as a basis of finding a value for water in storage. 

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The economic value of water in storage; what does it cost to maintain water reliability?

Professor Dr. Ni-Ni Thein is a high-level water professional with close to 40 years’ experience in the water sector. She is the founder and president of the Water, Research and Training Centre (WRTC) , which has been conducting public interest water research in Myanmar since 1997.

Currently, she is the secretary to the advisory group, as well as a member of the National Water Resources Committee (NWRC), which is a peak body for Integrated Water Resources Management in Myanmar.

In this interview with Karen Delfau, she talks about:

- The State of the Basin Assessment and the Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management Program
- Participatory Processes and Building Trust with International Partners and the people of Myanmar
- Lessons from the 3rd Asia Pacific Water Summit

Visit www.Kini.org.au for updates and additional resources about this interview.

Applying Integrated Water Management in the Ayeyarwady River Basin

Prof. Rob Vertessy, Enterprise Professor at University of Melbourne and Principal, Global Change Advisory speaks about: 
- His perpective on leadership not just from a personal level but from an institutional level in terms of affecting change and implementing global policy.
- His past and opportunity working in so many different roles leading to CEO of Bureau of Meteorology.
- The model that Australia has experienced can possibly be transferred to other countries
- Supporting data initiatives in India with the Australian Water Partnership
- His work with the High-Level Panel on Water to support the international data initiatives
- The future of young water professionals

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Institutional Governance, and Leadership: Learning from the Australian Experience

Rob Rendell, principal consultant for RMCG speaks about the Water Efficiency Improvement in Drought Affected Provinces (WEIDAP) program in Vietnam and the importance of building relationships.

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Water Efficiency Improvement in Drought Affected Provinces (WEIDAP) project in Vietnam

In this 3rd follow-up interview Tony shares the latest updates to the High Level Panel on Water that has taken place

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The High-Level Panel on Water, its Initiatives, and SDG6 - February 2018 Update

Carl Daamen, eWater’s Principal Hydrogeologis talks about Maharashtra, the work eWater has engaged in the Upper Godavari River.

Developing River Basin Models and Water Sharing Policy in the Upper Godavari

Prof. András Szöllösi-Nagy is one of the most recognised names in international water management, in that over the past 40 years he has been instrumental in the shaping both institutions and approaches to freshwater management.

Prior to his 2009-2014 appointment in Delft as rector of UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, he was director of the Division of Water, secretary of the International Hydrological Programme, and deputy director general of the natural sciences sector of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). While at UNESCO, Szöllösi-Nagy developed the organization’s response capacities in the area of freshwater, including launching the World Water Assessment Program (WWAP) and the Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential (PCCP) program that deals with conflict prevention and resolution concerning international waters. In 2003, Szöllösi-Nagy was instrumental in establishing the new UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and was a key player in the integration of the institute’s education and research programs in UNESCO.

Dr. Szollosi-Nagy is a founding member of the World Water Council (WWC) where he served six terms as an elected member of the Board of Governors. Currently, he is a professor of Sustainable Water Management at the National University of Public Service in Hungary and serves as Chair of the Intergovernmental Council of IHP.

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Hydrodiplomacy and Addressing Water Security: Lessons from 40 years of Experience

In an interview with IWCAN’s Karen Delfau, Rona Ramos, Camille Adle, and Perlita Gacutno from Oxfam Philippines share their experiences on sanitation marketing in the Philippines, women’s leadership projects, financial structures, and implementing market based programmes in forced emergency situations.

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Marc Goichot, Lead Water & Energy for WWF speaks about the role of the Mekong river in the economy. 

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Marc Goichot:Role of the Mekong River in the Economy

Dr Ian Campbell, Director for Rhithroecology speaks about his work and and experience in the Mekong region and his own business Rhithroecology.

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Knowledge Transfer in the Lower Mekong Region from an Australian Perspective

Dr Shahriar Wahid, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO shares this insights on climate change impacts on water in South Asia.

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Climate Change Impacts on Water in South Asia

Peter Kovalsky, CEO of Mincarb talks about low-energy, eletro chemical desalination technology and it's benefits, as well as some case studies where it has been applied successfully and advice for young water professionals.

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Low energy, electro-chemical desalination technology benefits and applications

Basja Jantowski, Country Rep, (Indonesia), Alliance for Water Stewardship speaks about:
- Water stewardship in Indonesia
- Challenges encountered and how it was resolved
- Women in water

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Alliance for Water Stewardship : Water Stewardship in Indonesia

Yi Wei, Global WASH director for iDE interview speaks about her experience with implementing market based approaches to WASH in Cambodia and other parts of the Indo Pacific region. She also shares how iDE is taking a human centered approach to WASH and what makes that different from other approaches to WASH.

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Market-based approaches for sustainability in WASH, incentives, and scaling up for success

Dr Thang Nam Do, Visiting Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University speaks about the current key water challenges in Vietnam and what's being done to resolve them.

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Vietnam's Key Water Challenges and Lesson's from the Region

Vijay Kumar, South Asia Representative for the Australian Water Partnership speaks about the key water challenges in India and shares some lessons and advice for people wanting to work in the region.

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Key Water Challenges in India and Lessons from the Region

Nadeem Samnakay, Principal Consultant, Enviro Policy Consulting speaks about addressing water governance issues in the Mekong and the necessity of the trans-disciplinary water professional.

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Addressing Water Governance Issues in the Mekong

Anik Bhaduri, Sustainable Water Future Program, Executive Director speaks about the Water Future platform and its key features and offerings that facilitate international scientific collaboration. 

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