Factsheet of the Utility Platform
The Utlility Platform in brief: background, objectives, approach, including its special approch in the Ukraine.
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 […]
Joint job training at the Radevormwald wastewater treatment plant
The cooperation between the Wupperverband, the Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesischer Wasserverband (OOWV) and the South African Water and Wastewater Management Department of the Buffalo City Municipality (BCMM), which has been in place since 2022, continues to gather pace. As part of the second practical exchange, a joint work training session was held from April 15 to 19 with […]
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 […]
“…as if you’ve known each other forever and a day.”
The German experts – a delegation from the Oldenburg-Ostfriesischer Wasserverbund (OOWV) and the Wupperverband – visited the BCMM plants for just under a week. After a joint tour of the East Bank wastewater treatment plant, which is the pilot plant of the wastewater working group, the working groups split up. The wastewater working group mainly […]
Understanding the background better
The German experts – a delegation from the Oldenburg-Ostfriesischer Wasserverbund (OOWV) and the Wupperverband – visited the BCMM plants for just under a week. After a joint tour of the East Bank wastewater treatment plant, which is the pilot plant for the project work, the working groups split up. The wastewater working group stayed mainly […]
“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 […]
Joint job training at the wastewater treatment plants of Oldenburg and the Wupperverband
Since 2022, the Oldenburg East Frisian Water Association (OOWV), the Wupperverband and the South African drinking water and wastewater disposal company of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM) have been in close contact within the framework of a utility partnership. Recently, the cooperation was further intensified: As part of an expert exchange, a joint job […]
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, […]
Island drinking water from the freshwater lens
Oldenburg. Climate change, drought, water demands – the challenges facing water management in northwest Germany are not particularly different from those in southern Africa, for example. That is why the Oldenburg East Frisian Water Association (OOWV) 2022, together with the Wupperverband (Wuppertal), has started an international cooperation with the metropolitan community of Buffalo City Metropolitan […]
