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World Water Day | HEKS Event in Bern & Zürich

HEKS EVENT IN BERN – Worum es geht – Gemäss den Vereinten Nationen haben über 800 Mio. Menschen oder drei von zehn Personen keinen elementaren Zugang zu sauberem Wasser. Weit mehr Personen fehlt der Zugang zu Sanitäranlagen. Besonders stark betroffen sind Flüchtlinge, Frauen und Kinder, Indigene und andere marginale Gruppen. Diese besonders verletzlichen Personen stehen […]
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TOILET ACCELERATOR 2020 – CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS!

CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS! If your work is in toilet innovation, sanitation service models, sanitary products, organic resource recovery, waste treatment, preventative and digital health, energy, cleaning services, feminine care, MHM, organic fertilisers, nutrient solutions… we want to hear from you! Since 2016 the Toilet Board Coalition’s specialised corporate Accelerator programme has been supporting entrepreneurs with […]
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Brand New WWF Water Risk Filter

The upgraded Water Risk Filter 5.0 empowers users to explore, assess, and now respond to water risks! With the new Respond section, the Water Risk Filter will dynamically link your risk assessment results to provide a customized set of recommended response actions. Whether you want recommendations for 1 site, 10 sites or 1000 sites, the […]
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Dear SWP Members Please save the date for the annual SWP General Assembly that will take place at the Zürich Water Utility on the 12th June 2019. This will be your opportunity to network and discuss future orientations and actions […]

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MOOC “Introduction to Faecal Sludge Management”

May 1, 2017 | 12:00 am - Dec 31, 2020 | 12:00 am |

Do you want learn how to apply concepts of sustainable faecal sludge management on a city-wide scale? Eawag-Sandec will launch the fourth MOOC of the series “Water, Sanitation and Solid Waste for Development” on May 1. The 5-weeks online course […]

Water Talks Series "Exploring Dam Politics: Rivalries, Power and Hope"

Apr 25, 2019 | 7:00 pm |

The Geneva Water Hub is delighted to invite you to the 5th edition of the Water Talks Series dedicated to the theme: Exploring Dam Politics: Rivalries, Power and Hope For this edition, four honourable speakers will have the opportunity to share a […]

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Matchmaking Event: WATER SUPPLY PROJECT ANGOLA

Apr 30, 2019 | 10:00 am |

On 30 April 2019, SERV and S-GE are hosting their first joint matchmaking event in Zurich, and you are warmly invited. The aim is to give Swiss exporters, particularly SMEs, the chance to actively participate in an irrigation and water […]

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SWP Member Projects

Non-State Actors and the Management of International Freshwater Resources (project supported by the Swiss National Research Fund)

Treaties on international water resources no longer regulate only State-to-State relations. Rather, individuals, communities, and non-governmental organizations — collectively referred to as “non-State actors”— have become subject of these instruments as well. The research pays attention to mechanisms open to individuals at the domestic and international levels, as well as to norms and practice concerning […]

Safe Water Programme in Rural Uganda

The principle aim of a water access, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project is to create conditions under which risk of waterborne disease transmission are minimised. However, providing a community or school with safe water that improves health conditions is not a matter of simply installing a new, clean source. It is also necessary that communities realise […]

The Toolkit aims at assisting development practitioners in effectively contributing to the realization of the human right to water and sanitation in the country of intervention. This material is structured according to the Project Cycle Management (PCM).

Vegetables go to School: Improving Nutrition through Agricultural Diversification

Background: Malnutrition is one of the most serious health problems in the world, with enormous human and economic costs. To address this problem, aspects of education, water, sanitation, health, nutrition and agriculture/horticulture need to be addressed in a coordinated way to change the behaviour of individuals, communities and populations. Aims: This project aims to contribute […]

Senegal: Safe drinking water for rural populations In the Sine Saloum Delta in Senegal, the available surface and ground water is not suitable for human consumption because of high levels of salt and fluoride, causing serious illnesses. Swiss Fresh Water (SFW) has been running a pilot project in the region since May 2011, providing the […]

Resource Recovery & Reuse: From Research to Implementation

The overall goal of the project is to implement globally and at large scale recovery and safe reuse models of resources generated from liquid and solid waste streams in order to promote food security, cost recovery in the sanitation sector, and livelihood opportunities, while safeguarding public health and the environment in poor urban and peri-urban […]

IBG has realized the final engineering design of this twin pipeline water transmission system from the Persian Gulf to Riyadh City. A total length of 900 km of pipes with typical diameters between 1200 and 1800 mm has been placed within this project for transporting 900’000 m3/d of water. IBG’s very broad involvement includes for […]

GIWEH International Conference on Water Resources and Environmental Management (ICWRE) is a series of conferences organized in cooperation with UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), University of Geneva, Miahona. ICWRE-2011 was held on 20-24 […]

Skat, in partnership with STPH, is implementing for SDC a drinking water supply project in the Great Lakes region with the main objectives of improving the access to sustainable drinking water supply systems and respecting equal access to water of good quality of about 400,000 people in Rwanda, Burundi and the DR of Congo. The […]

Events

World Water Day | HEKS Event in Bern & Zürich

News

TOILET ACCELERATOR 2020 – CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS!

Brand New WWF Water Risk Filter

SWP General Assembly 2019

MOOC “Introduction to Faecal Sludge Management”

Water Talks Series "Exploring Dam Politics: Rivalries, Power and Hope"

Matchmaking Event: WATER SUPPLY PROJECT ANGOLA

SWP Member Projects

Non-State Actors and the Management of International Freshwater Resources (project supported by the Swiss National Research Fund)

Safe Water Programme in Rural Uganda

ToolKit for Water Program Managers

Vegetables go to School: Improving Nutrition through Agricultural Diversification

Swiss Fresh Water

Resource Recovery & Reuse: From Research to Implementation

Water Transmission System in Saudi Arabia

GIWEH International Conference on Water Resources and Environmental Management (ICWRE)

PEPP