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, […]
Women’s power in the water industry
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, male employees of Vodokanals are no longer allowed to leave their country and applications for departure are hardly granted or only with considerable bureaucratic effort. However, the constant contact between Stadtentwässerung Dresden GmbH and its partners Lvivvodokanal, Ternopilvodokanal, and Nadvirnavodokanal, and the lively exchange about the content […]
A week dedicated to the Water Operators‘ Partnerships (WOPs): from 22 to 26 May 2023
May was an eventful week in the international project activities surrounding Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) in general and the utility partnership of Dresden, Cologne and Berlin with Lviv, Ternopil and Nadvirna in particular. In four cities, project tasks were worked on almost simultaneously, networks were established and strengthened, and the operator partnership was presented. Bonn […]
Ukraine: Major damage to water and sanitation infrastructure – help urgently needed!
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam and the flooding along the Dnipro River has done great damage to the water and wastewater infrastructure as images provided by our partners from Kherson show. Damage is worsening by the hour and increases the stress on the already strained population of Kherson region in Ukraine. Water supply and […]
First delivery to Ukraine
This week, the first transport with urgently needed material started to our partners in Ukraine. Among them was a camera truck for the inspection of damaged sewers as well as laboratory equipment, which was brought on its way to Sumy. For our colleagues in Chernihiv, three drinking water pumps as well as suitable piping and […]
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 […]
Ukrvodokanalecology: Water supply companies during the war
The document describes how the war affected the drinking water supply in the Ukraine. The infrastructure destroyed due to the fighting and the defeat of Russian missiles, the increased load on the regions that accepted the most displaced people — this is just the tip of the iceberg, which poses a huge threat to one […]
Ukraine-Hilfe Wasserwirtschaft: Erneuter gemeinsamer Spendenaufruf
Ein Jahr Angriffskrieg in der Ukraine hat viel Zerstörung hinterlassen. Dabei leidet die Bevölkerung besonders unter den Angriffen auf die Infrastruktur der Daseinsvorsorge. Denn ohne funktionierende Anlagen der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft stehen die Menschen in der Ukraine vor einer humanitären Katastrophe. Die Verbände der deutschen Wasserwirtschaft haben sich daher von Anfang an gemeinsam organisiert, um der ukrainischen […]
Berlin water utility donates seven vehicles to Ukraine
The ‘Berliner Wasserbetriebe‘ water utility is donating seven vehicles to the Ukrainian wastewater operator ‘Lvivodokanal‘. Together with Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Svenja Schulze, and the Vice President of the Association of Municipal Enterprises, Karsten Specht, the company handed over the vehicles today. To maintain wastewater disposal in Ukraine, the Berlin water utility is donating […]
Intercultural awareness training for Ukrainian-German solidarity partnerships
Why learn about intercultural differences between Ukrainians and Germans? Because they matter! For successful partnerships it is useful to understand underlying values and norms of your counterparts. This is why the utility platform offered for German and Ukrainian colleagues involved in solidarity water utility partnerships this crash course on intercultural awareness on 9 and 10 […]