RésEAU Updates August 2025

News to read and to listen to

• The Trend Sheet #10 of the Trend Observatory on Water talks about Green laws and policies for a more sustainable water future and the shift towards climate resilience, biodiversity protection and inclusive economy.
• The Trend Observatory on Water also released a new podcast episode on Managed Aquifer Recharge: Securing Water for a Resilient Future featuring Dr. Karen Villholth, Senior expert on groundwater.
• El Agua nos Une produced an educational animated video about the value of water and food. The video is available in Spanish with English and with Portuguese subtitles, and was inspired by a previous video on water and energy.
• The Global WASH Cluster, together with the WASH RoadMap and partners, including SDC, launched the 2025 Call to Action for Survival and Resilient WASH, to stand in solidarity with the 173 million people in urgent need of humanitarian WASH assistance. Organisations can sign the Call to Action here.
• The UN Water Collaborative Implementation Plan outlines how the United Nations system will jointly implement the first-ever UN System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation, with its first phase lasting from 2025 to 2028.

E-workshops and webinars to attend

• 27 August 2025, 9:30-11, CEST - Understanding resilience: from concept to practice. This first session of the Learning Lab: Resilience Thinking - launches a new online learning journey by the SDC's Cluster Green networks Climate DRR and Environment, Agriculture & Food Systems and RésEAU, aiming at equipping practitioners with the knowledge and tools to apply resilience thinking meaningfully in their work.
• 3 September 2025, 8:15-9:00 CEST- Thoughts for Food 23 organized by SDC's Agriculture and Food Systems Network is a short, informal session to share some thoughts for food with network members and anyone else interested. The precise topic is to be announced closer to date.
• Self-paced - The course WASH and Nutrition Nexus: The basics is offered by the WASH Systems Academy. It teaches the interlinkages between WASH and nutrition and provides tools and methodologies for designing and implementing integrated WASH and nutrition interventions. The WASH Systems Academy further offers short-courses on Gender equity and social inclusion and Building WASH resilience, conflict sensitivity and peace.

Conferences and events to join

• 24 August
• Solar-Powered Water Solutions for Climate-Resilient Agriculture: Lessons from SoLAR. Co-hosted by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 10:00 - 11:00, online (Session ID 12274)
• Advancing Water Security in Africa Using Experiential (WISE) Data, co-hosted by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, 14:00 - 15:30, hybrid (Session ID 12189)
• Rewriting the Playbook: Water Utilities Negotiating Better Climate Finance, Co-hosted by Eawag, 13:00 - 14:00, online (Session ID 12375)
• 26 August
• Enhancing Climate Resilience through innovative collaboration: the humanitarian WASH RoadMap, Co-hosted by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 16:00 - 17:30, hybrid (Session ID 12094)
• Applying Climate Reparative Finance Toward Water Security, co-hosted by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, 16:00 - 17:30, hybrid (Session ID 12065)
• 27 August
• Realising carbon revenues for sanitation: the current and future potential, Co-hosted by Eawag, 14:00 - 15:30, on-site (Session ID 12080)
• 28 August
• Accelerating Climate Action: Cross-Sector Partnerships for Water Resilience, co-hosted by Swiss Water Partnership, 09:00 - 10:30, hybrid (Session ID 12218)
• Climate Resilience Schools: The Interface of WinS & Climate adaptation, co-hosted by Swiss Water and Sanitation Consortium, 09:00 - 10:30, hybrid (Session ID 12282)
• Organize to Adapt! No resilient interventions, without resilient organizations, co-hosted by Eawag, 09:00 - 10:30, on-site (Session ID 12244)
• Youth Driving Accountability in Global Water Processes: Mobilizing Towards UN2026WC, co-hosted by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Swiss Water Partnership Youth, 09:00 - 10:30, hybrid (Session ID 12191)
• Intergenerational workshop on climate-smart WASH, co-hosted by Swiss Water Partnership, Swiss Water Partnership Youth and HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, 11:00-12:30, on-site (Session ID 12103)
• Strengthening collaboration with countries and partners for resilient agrifood systems, co-hosted by the Federal Office for Agriculture, 12:00 - 12:20, hybrid (Session ID 12318)
• Actions for climate resilience: Water resources planning and circularity, co-hosted by CEWAS, 09:00 - 10:30, on-site (Session ID 12324)

Please consider sharing your news with all other RésEAU members by sending an email to ResEAU@dgroups.org.

Best regards,

Dr. Daniel Maselli, RésEAU Focal Point, SDC

Delphine Magara, RésEAU Backstopper, Skat Consulting Ltd.