“Small changes add up to a lot”
Supplying the population with water and disposing of wastewater in the best possible way – these municipal tasks are at the centre of the water utility partnership between the Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesischer Wasserverband (OOWV), the Wupperverband and the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa. Samantha Westphal from the City of Oldenburg, Meike Lenzen from OOWV and […]
Utility partnerships: The key to a water-secure future
Today still, more than two billion people across the globe do not have access to a safe supply of water. Moreover, many municipalities in the Global South are without an operational sanitation system. To help close these global supply gaps, municipal water supply and sanitation companies in Germany, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Ukraine, […]
Report of the 6th International Utility Platform network meeting in Berlin, 25-26 May 2023
2023 is an important year for the water sector. In March, the first United Nations Water Conference in 50 years took place. In July, the United Nations High-Level Political Forum reviewed Sustainable Development Goal 6 on “Clean Water and Sanitation”. Immediately preceding the Utility Platform Network Meeting, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and […]
