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 […]
6. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: Low Cost Smart Water Metering Device
Video presentation by Sarika Devraj from eThekwini Municipality, South Africa at the 6th Networking Event of the Utility Platform in Berlin in May 2023. Watch video at YouTube:
Knowledge exchange and environmental education
Within our utility partnership, five of our South African colleagues visited the Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesischer-Wasserverband (OOWV) and the Wupperverband during a one-week visit in early March 2023. Although they missed their connecting flight in Frankfurt, the group happily arrived in rainy Bremen with a delay of 3 hours and was impressed how organized the Germans are. On […]
5. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview
Overview The Utility Platform’s fifth network meeting took place from 29 to 30 November 2022 again in a virtual format and with an intentionally wide range of topics. On both days of the event, participants were able to choose between strengthening their soft skills, such as their advisory expertise or capacity for communicating results in […]
Quantitative water balances, prototype development, smart metering solutions…
At the end of August, the EThekwini Water & Sanitation (EWS) unit in Durban (South Africa), and HAMBURG WASSER (Germany), together with Open Cities Lab (OCL), Viva con Agua (VcA) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as additional partners, launched a 3-year Water Operator Partnership (WOP). This is one of 22 WOPs […]
Visit of the „Kleine Kinzig” dam
After the German colleagues had the opportunity to visit Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM) in May, we are pleased that our South African partners were able to travel to us in June so that we can create a mutual understanding of the systems in both countries. During the visit in Germany, the partners from BCMM, […]
Spring tides and drinking water treatment
The Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesischer Wasserverband (OOWV) works with international partners so that it can better meet future challenges. One such cooperation arrangement took the OOWV and the Wupperverband to East London in South Africa. There, the OOWV entered into a utility partnership with the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM) and the Wupperverband. Through the partnership, the partners […]
4. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: an overview
Overview At Stuttgart’s Impact Hub, a co-working space and event venue, more than 60 practitioners from seven partnerships met on May 30 and 31, 2022, to network across partnerships, identify success strategies for operator partnerships, and discuss emerging issues within the partnerships. The following BMZ-funded partnerships were represented at the network meeting: In addition, two […]
4. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: Intensive dialogue
In Stuttgart, participants from seven partnerships and six countries spent two days keenly discussing possible solutions to current issues in municipal water supply. Municipal water utilities are key actors for providing people with water supply and sanitation at the local level. This is why it is important to make water utilities efficient and effective, especially […]
Good preparation builds understanding and trust
In the last quarter of 2021, four new partnerships were launched between utilities from Germany and utilities in Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and Ukraine. To ensure the partnerships got off to a good start and to further bolster the established partnerships, the utility platform held a total of nine training and networking events in November […]
