RésEAU Updates June 2024

News to read

• The recently published World Bank report Funding a Water Secure Future: An Assessment of Public Spending reveals an annual gap of almost triple the invested global value, to achieve SDG 6.
• The Water Action Agenda progress report by UN Water presents insights on current progress over commitments made during the UN Water Conference in New York in 2023. The report highlights SDC's #Action50767 on «Blue Peace Financing».
• During the UN Protection of Civilians Week 2024, Slovenia, Switzerland, Jordan, Costa Rica and more countries jointly launched the Global Alliance to Save Water from Armed Conflict.
• The International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre (IGRAC) released its debut issue of ‹Scratching the Surface Magazine› featuring several interesting articles, such as teachings from ancestral groundwater systems and wisdom in Algeria (p.18).
• IGRAC and the Friends of Groundwater also published new Groundwater quality assessment guidelines, presented in a brief video.
• Water quality is further addressed by SDC's pilot project on removal of heavy metals from drinking water and discussed in a paper on arsenic pollution published by the University of Sheffield.

Conferences and Events to join

• 10-13 June 2024 - Third High-Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action «Water for Sustainable Development» to be held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
• 18-21 June 2024 - Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, hosted by Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Leiden University, to be held online and in person in The Hague, the Netherlands
• 2 July 2024 - 25th Meeting of the Compliance Committee under the Protocol on Water and Health, hosted by UNECE, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland
• 3-5 July 2024 - Nature-Based Solutions for Water Security and Climate Adaptation Conference - hosted by RECONECT, supported by IWA and IAHR, to be held in person in Belgrade, Serbia
• 4-5 July 2024 - Field-Day  on Risk Assessment of Floods, hosted by the Swiss NGO DRR Platform to take place in Emmental, Switzerland
• 11-15 August 2024 -  World Water Congress & Exhibition, hosted by the International Water Association (IWA) to be held in Toronto, Canada
• 24 August 2024 - 34th SuSanA Meeting, hosted by the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden and online
• 25-29 August 2024 - World Water Week - Bridging Borders, hosted by SIWI in Stockholm, Sweden
• 4-6 September 2024 - 6th International Conference for Water Safety hosted by IWA in Montevideo, Uruguay
• 8-13 September 2024 - World Groundwater Congress hosted by the International Association of Hydrogeologists to take place in Davos, Switzerland
• 7-11 October 2024 - 38th Aguasan Workshop on the WASH humanitarian-development nexus, to be held at Hotel Meielisalp, Switzerland

E-workshops and webinars to attend

• 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00 CET - Webinar: Removal of heavy metals from drinking water organized by RésEAU, CDE Network and SDC's Office in Lima, Peru
• 25 June 2024 - Webinar: Stop the Rot: The quality challenge - ensuring a high standard of rural water infrastructure from the outset, organized by the Rural Water Supply Network

Opportunities to apply for

• Call for papers for the Ecology and Society Journal: Special Feature ‹The Next Wave in Water Governance›. This open call is available in English, French, and Spanish until 31st July 2024

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.