Featuring IHE Delft staff

Small Island Development States (SIDS) appear on the map as little dots of green in vast stretches of blue. In popular culture, they take turns appearing as idyllic holiday destinations... and as tiny landmasses always on the verge of drowning under rising sea level.
Just how exposed are these island nations to climate change effects? What makes them extra vulnerable? How are they dealing with this threat? We speak to IHE Delft's Erik de Ruiter van Steveninck.
(If you are from a Small Island Developing State--SIDS--here is a fellowship opportunity for you to study water management at IHE Delft: https://www.un-ihe.org/sids-fellowships-1 )

Small islands in big oceans

Is it possible to predict conflict? That's what the Water, Peace and Security Partnership's machine learning early warning tool sets out to do. Four times a year the predictions are analyzed and turned into a quarterly report.

In this second WPS quarterly report podcast we'll look at the countries most at risk of conflict thanks to the fall out of the war in Ukraine, which has led to much higher fuel and food prices, along with serious predicted future food supply problems. The guest for this podcast is Susanne Schmeier, Associate Professor in Water Law and Diplomacy at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, one of the WPS partners, and the producer and presenter is Nicholas Walton of WRI.

Big Ideas Into Action #50: Water Peace and Security Quarterly Update 2

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

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

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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.

Acces additional resources and interview with other leading water practitioners at http://www.kini.org.au

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

In this interview with IWCAN’s Karen Delfau at the Asia International Water Week(AIWW), Sri Lanka Water Partnership Senior Advisor and Chair, Kusum Athukorala talks about women in irrigation, need for a gendered perspective in water, sustainable financing and the opportunities and challenges available to young water professionals.

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Gender and Water in Sri Lanka, and the importance of Young Water Professionals

Christy Davis has been with World Vision for six and a half years, working in Singapore and supporting the Asia region. She has worked both in the public and private sector, including UNDP. Asia has been her home for over 27 years.

In this interview with Karen Delfau, Christy talks about her work with World Vision, Asia P3 Hub, and combinatorial innovation

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Combinatorial Innovation and Effective Partnerships for Water Management in Asia

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

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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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

Climate change is disrupting weather patterns and leading to extreme weather events, such as wild fires, all around the world. Climate-related natural disasters also cause unpredictable water availability, exacerbate existing water scarcities and contaminate established water supplies. In some situations, scarce and valuable fresh water has contributed to conflicts by being a causal factor, target, tool, or weapon. In this episode, we explore what the effects of climate change means for water security around the world and talk to four guests about the weaponization of water, water scarcity, international conflicts over water, and more.

Guests: Scott Moore (Director, Penn Global China Program), Jasdeep Randhawa (International lawyer and policy specialist, currently working in the adaptation team at the United Nations Climate Change agency), Susanne Schmeier (Associate professor, IHE Delft), Michelle Toxopeus (Legal researcher, Helen Suzman Foundation).

What Does Climate Change Mean for Water Security?

Journalists have a crucial role to play in creating inspirational and transformative narratives relating to the world’s complex water conflicts, specialists say in the first episode of a three-part podcast series on water conflict and cooperation. 

In this episode, special guests discuss their research on the role of the media in water diplomacy, which features in a new expert guide for journalists and policymakers launched by the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education.

Water conflicts, science and the media

Hello and welcome to the 'Transformations to Groundwater Sustainability' Podcast. Every month, we will share narratives of knowing, accessing and sharing groundwater from different perspectives and places around the globe. The podcast is hosted by Muna Dajani (Lancaster University) and Cristian Olmos (University of Amsterdam), and today's episode is a conversation about the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on small-scale agriculture in Algeria, India and Morocco. Our guests are Farah Hamamouche (CIRAD, France), Hind Ftouhi (The Agronomic and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, Morocco), Irene Leonardelli (IHE Delft), Lisa Bossenbroek (University Koblenz-Landau) and Sneha Bhat (SOPPECOM). In this episode, we discuss the challenges of doing feminist research during a pandemic, aiming to offer listeners something more than an academic interview. We hope you enjoy the conversation.
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Hydrodiplomacy and Addressing Water Security: Lessons from 40 years of Experience

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