Factsheet: KASHWASA, KUWASA in Tanzania and HAMBURG WASSER, and Netze BW Wasser

Fact sheet about the water operators partnership (WOP) between KASHWASA, KUWASA in Tanzania and HAMBURG WASSER, and Netze BW Wasser in Germany. The overall project goal is to establish a sound long-lasting cooperation in partnership between KASHWASA, KUWASA, HAMBURG WASSER, and Netze BW Wasser in terms of trust and relation.The concrete goals and targets cover different […]

Working meeting between the operators EcoService-2022 and BAV

Biowaste management in practice – learning and exchange in a German-Ukrainian utility partnership EcoService-2022 was founded in 2022 by four municipalities in the Poltava oblast as Ukraine’s first waste management association. The founding municipalities received significant support from the ‘Export Initiative Environmental Protection’, which is promoting the development of sustainable waste management in Ukraine on […]

German-Ukrainian municipal partnership conference in June 2025

From 16 to 19 June 2025, the seventh German-Ukrainian Municipal Partnership Conference took place in Münster under the motto “From solidarity to transformation: For Ukraine. For Europe.” took place. Around 650 representatives of municipalities, committed individuals and interested parties from the German-Ukrainian partnership network took part. The conference offered a wide range of opportunities for […]

OOWV expands international cooperation

In the north-west. Learning from each other, cooperating across borders and overcoming challenges together – this is at the centre of the cooperation between the Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesischer Wasserverband (OOWV) and the Chambeshi Water Supply and Sanitation Company (ChWSSC) from Zambia. A delegation from the African water supply and wastewater disposal company has now visited the region […]

Visit from Lviv, Ternopil, Nadvirna and Dresden to the StEB Cologne

As the utility partnership is being continued, Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln (StEB Köln) invited representatives of Stadtentwässerung Dresden (SEDD) and the wastewater and water utilities Lvivvodokanal, Ternopil and Nadvirna to a working meeting from 13 to 15 May. In several workshops, the participants jointly developed the main objectives of the collaboration and built up a sustainable network […]

Solidarity of North Rhine-Westphalian municipal utilities with Ukraine

The Ukraine conference under patronage of the federal government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) on 18th of November 2024 in Cologne gave participants the opportunity to learn about various facets of Ukraine’s reconstruction efforts, exchange ideas with other experts from their respective fields and establish contacts with potential partners. North Rhine-Westphalian municipal utilities are amongst the […]

Building bonds between Apa Canal Chişinău and Stadtentwässerung Dresden

In autumn 2023, two utility partnerships between German and Moldovan municipal companies were initiated as part of the Utility Platform. One of these partnerships is between Apa Canal Chişinău (ACC), the municipal water company of the capital of the small south-east European country, and Stadtentwässerung Dresden GmbH (SEDD). ACC is the main provider of water […]