As an international network German Water Partnership and its members pursue the ambitious goal of coping with local water problems worldwide and thus making a contribution to the sustainable securing of water as a resource. The recent statement of our member UFT in the UFT customer magazine shows what your presence in the global water management markets might look like and which business opportunities arise.
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German Water Partnership, the internationally oriented association of German water management and water science, has noticed the results of the coalition negotiations with great interest.
We welcome the aim to make a more sustainable and effective approach on the protection of water and soil protection as well as climate protection. For the first time, clean water is being addressed as the most important basis of livelihood, thereby focusing on its importance for avoiding flight and migration. That’s right! It is also true that Africa should be given a special focus.
The Water Action Plan, compiled by German Water Partnership toghether with its over 300 members and the partners in the ministries and institutions, above all GIZ and KfW, suggests concrete, practicable measures to achieve these goals. Under the GWP umbrella, GWP’s German water management industry is prepared to make a contribution to better water management worldwide and to counteract the biggest water-related risks that are formulated by the World Economic Forum in the Global Risk Report. Two of the central instruments are utility partnerships between international and German local water management companies and the dissemination of sustainable technologies.
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In early 1967, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was among the first Arab states to reestablish diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, leading to the development of an ever since continuing development cooperation programme. In consequence, GTZ/GIZ has been supporting the Jordanian water sector in tackling its many challenges for over 40 years: Between 1975 and 2016, a total of 30 projects were commissioned with an overall budget of more than 110 million Euros. The longevity and volume of this water portfolio give rise to questions regarding the development of the cooperation itself: What were the thematic key areas, and how did they evolve over time? What impacts were achieved, and could these be sustained until today? What are the lessons learnt?
Sustainable and Efficient Solutions for the Egyptian Water Sector
German Water Partnership (GWP) in cooperation with the Egyptian Holding Company for Water and Wastewater (HCWW) and the German-Arab Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK) are organizing the 1st Egyptian-German Water Partnership Day on the 5th of February 2019 in Cairo. The conference is supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
Position paper on increasing mobilisation of know-how of German utilities for capacity development in the international water sector – Unfortunately this publication is only available in German.
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy within its Mittelstand Global Export Initiatove and in cooperation with German Water Partnership 10 German companies working in technologies, solutions and applications for the water sector travelled to Kenya from 19th – 23rd November 2018. The delegation of businesses has had the opportunity to visit Kenya water management operations, have B2B conversations with local stakeholders and present innovative solutions to hundreds of water industry practitioners in Kenya, including Government Officials from the Kenya Water Institute (KEWI), Ministry of Water and Sanitation and Water Services Regulatory Board.
In November 2018 german companies travelled to Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay to explore Myanmar’s market with a special focus on water and wastewater infrastructure.
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Check out our first Colombian GWP-Day, which took place on 29 Ocotber 2018!
You’ll find further information in Spanish on the website of the German Chamber of Commerce in Colombia. Just klick here.
A strong network “Made in Germany”
On 22 October 2018 more than 120 participants from the international water community came together in the “Humboldt-Box” located in the heart of Berlin for this year’s BLUE PLANET Berlin Water Dialogues supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises. In the context of this year´s motto “Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Smart Cities” 16 international experts from the water sector – among them Prof. Herbert Dreiseitl and the Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians Dr. h. c. Maude Barlow – presented their future-orientated concepts on change processes and sustainable adaption concepts for urban spaces worldwide on their way to become “water smart”. BLUE PLANET 2018 was organized by German Water Partnership in cooperation with Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin.
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