Looking back at IFAT Munich 2024

Today three months ago the Utility Platform attended IFAT Munich: the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management. With almost 150,000 visitors from almost 170 countries and regions, it brings together the most important international industry representatives from politics, business and science and offers exciting ideas and innovative solutions for […]

Outcome Report 1: Water Operator Partnership Jordan Water Company “Miyahuna”, German Operators HAMBURG WASSER and hanseWasser Bremen

This WOP project is one of nine international WOPs, three solid waste operator partnerships and 16 solidarity operator partnerships with Ukraine supported under the pilot project until June 2024. This report summarizes the design and implementation of the project and identifies the main outcomes derived from the partnership in each work package. It should be […]

7. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview

Overview How can utility partnerships make a difference in achieving the sustainability goals of the 2030 Agenda? What was achieved in the pilot phase of the Utility Platform? What will the follow-up phase look like? These questions were the focus of the seventh networking event of the Utility Platform and were answered impressively. Almost 100 […]

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, […]

Valuable insights into the daily work in the field of water supply

Would online meetings replace the necessity of hands-on exchange? Definitely not! To this end, GIZ Jordan contacted HAMBURG WASSER during their last mission in Amman to organise a practice-oriented study tour for 8 colleagues from Jordan Water Company “Miyahuna”, Amman and Yarmouk Water Company, Irbid. Accompanied by 4 colleagues from GIZ Jordan, the group visited […]

6. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview

Overview How can utilities in the partner countries operate more effectively and efficiently to meet the freshwater and wastewater needs of the population and cover their costs? This question was the focus of the 6th Utility Platform networking event in Berlin on May 25 and 26, 2023. The networking event followed the 5th Global WOPs […]

Arab Water Week and third mission to Miyahuna

From 5th to 13th March 2023, a delegation from HAMBURG WASSER was in Amman to participate at the Arab Water Week (AWW) and to work with their peer colleagues from Miyahuna on site at the water production facilities and in the laboratories. The AWW is a big regional water conference for the Arabic region, where […]