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Comment by Alina Siegfried on November 20, 2012 at 21:30

Hi water people!

I'm excited to announce that Waterlution NZ is hosting our inaugural event in Wellington on 3rd December and we would love you to be there! We will be hosting a facilitated discussion at the Southern Cross bar in the evening to explore how we use cross-sector dialogues in New Zealand to strengthen our management of freshwater resources.

More details on the event page: http://we.intersect.org.nz/events/waterlution-nz-presents-wai-cafe-...

Comment by Rebecca Mills on April 13, 2012 at 15:11

maybe you…and others could be that hero Mike. Turning a moment into a movement - starting the revolution.  It's up to all of us and with data sharing/modern technology it is all so very possible

Comment by Mike Chapman on April 13, 2012 at 14:12

I think the world is in need of a hero, a revolutionary – to create a shift of thinking that people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr made. Its hard not to get dispondent in these troubled times - where is our martyr! The high level policies and strategies have been developed. But, there is yet no agreement on a global pathway, such as the Kyoto Protocol, to address water and wider sustainblity. Ah well one day a hero will come.....

Comment by Mike Chapman on April 12, 2012 at 16:25

 

Yes globally led, all nations contributing if possible. In the absence of a global platform (probably because developed nations do not see the issue so close on the horizon?) Change for good might be quickest if US security continues to monitor resource allocation/conflict and push the hardest to mediate and find solutions to water conflict backed by scientific community. Then apply the solutions worldwide. Maybe US security could truly act as a global citizen with no national security agenda compared to oil.

Comment by Mike Chapman on April 12, 2012 at 16:09

Hello water people, on another note the June issue of "World Rivers Review" is overflowing with ideas on how to maintain healthy flows in rivers, for their health and our own.  A number of articles to skim through here on themes such as: If a river's flow is its heartbeat, then we humans have become the heart disease of the world's rivers, let a River Run Free, and Downstream Impacts of Dams etc.

Download the pdf and skim through at your leisure!

http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/WRR-June2011.pdf

 

Comment by Rebecca Mills on April 12, 2012 at 16:07

Isn't the responsibility vice versa? - we need a global collaborative platform….and a pathway to a sustainable future.  US security have been publishing their reports which is great

Comment by Mike Chapman on April 12, 2012 at 16:03

Hey Rebecca, let’s hope so! Can only look on with optimism to see if the US security community join up with their EPA colleagues to share knowledge and advocate internationally how wise water management is so critical to the well being of the human race.

Comment by Rebecca Mills on March 30, 2012 at 16:18

Very useful and succinct report Mike - thanks for sharing it.  US Department of State producing a report carefully detailing the security risks - building the evidence base of what the science world has been predicting for many years.  Issues of national security may help the policy makers stand up, listen and pave a pathway for a sustainable future of shared resource use.

Comment by Mike Chapman on March 30, 2012 at 13:25

Hi water people,

 

On world water day this year the US Department of Sate released a report on global water security.

The public report, unlike the classified version, did not specify countries at greatest risk for water-related disruption but analyzed conditions on major river basins in regions with high potential for conflict – from the Jordan to the Tigris and Euphrates to the Brahmaputra in South Asia.

Only 10 pages of text, check it out:

http://www.hydrology.nl/mainnews/1-latest-news/346-us-report-warns-...

 

 

 

Comment by Donna Caddie on January 14, 2012 at 12:57

Hey water peeps, 

come along to the waterlution associate training to get connected and trained in facilitation techniques. West Auckland residential workshop on 10 -12 February only $80 for the weekend!

 Check it out and apply now. 

http://www.waterlution.org/global/oceania/apply

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