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Broadcast quality video for download at www.thenewsmarket.com/siwi

Every day during World Water Week, SIWI will post broadcast quality video material via www.thenewsmarket.com/siwi. The video clips feature soundbytes from experts on current issues and about the Week. B-roll footage on different topics and from different regions of the world is also available.

Registration at Newsmarket is free for legitimate media at www.thenewsmarket.com/media.


The Stockholm World Water Cube – reporting live from World Water Week

Participation. Innovation. Energy.

The Stockholm World Water Cube is the place to be if you're interested in the power of online video at World Water Week. World Water Week is the first water conference to do event-based online video. It will create an active channel to promote the issues and personalities during the event and in the year beyond. All videoclips may be downloaded and used.

The Stockholm World Water Cube is a joint project by SIWI, Akvo and IRC.

 

Audio

Stakeholder Forum and SIWI is podcasting live at the World Water Week. 

A team of reporters is catching up with the latest debates, hearing stories from the field and interviewing the key players. Formats include roundtable discussions, one-on-one interviews and features. All the programmes will be recorded at a studio on site and will go live the same day. Watch this space, listen in, and join the debate!

2009-08-20

The western world has an insatiable thirst for water. The concept of ‘water footprints’ has shown that Americans consume over 6800 litres of virtual water every day, over triple that of a Chinese person.  But what is a water footprint? And how does a water footprint translate into policy-making?  And is there any evidence that it is changing the way that businesses value water?  We catch up with Dan Bena (PepsiCo); Chris Williams (WWF) and Guy Howard (DFID) to find out more…

Corruption and the water sector are age old friends – they go back a long time.  We’re all too familiar with stories of water officials exchanging votes for lucrative engineering contracts or international donor money earmarked for water pipes being spent on limousines.  We are joined in the studio by Teun Batermeijer (WIN), Ramisetty Murali (FAN), and Thomas van Waeyenberge (Aquafed) to find out why the water sector is so prone to corruption, and whether we’re winning the battle against it...

Hannah Stoddart speaks with Professor Tony Allan, founder of the concept 'virtual water', about trade, politics, economics and population, and how the major challenges for water lie outside the water sector.

2009-08-19

Are we really are heading for an era of "hydrological warfare" in which rivers and lakes become national security assets to be fought over, or controlled through armed forces? Or can water act as a force for peace and cooperation? Hannah Stoddart is joined in the studio by Dr Patricia Wouters, Director of the International Water Law Research Institute at Dundee University; Flavia Loures from International Water Law and Policy at WWF; and Munqeth Mehyar from Friends of the Earth in the Middle East.

2009-08-18

Lets take two scenarios. On the 18th of December, the world walks away with a new global deal on climate change. The agreement includes progressive emission targets for rich countries, nationally appropriate mitigation strategies for developing countries, financing for adaptation and a good institutional framework. Alternatively, on the 18th December the negotiations finally break down, no deal is struck and world leaders walk away with nothing.  In our second breakfast roundtable we tackle the implications of the UNFCCC negotiations on international water management policy.

2009-08-17

In breakfast roundtable we're tackling the issue of human rights and water. How does a rights-based approach translate on the ground?  How much water is required to fulfil that right?  And whose responsibility is it to provide that right? In today’s breakfast roundtable Dave Trouba is joined in the studio by social anthropologist Nandita Singh; human rights lawyer Thorsten Kiefer; and Jason Morisson from the Pacific Institute.

The Stockholm World Water Week brings together the lead thinkers, experts and actvists on water issues.  In this series of one-on-one interviews we wanted to meet the people behind the policies and find out what continues to motivate them in their work.  In our first episode of Water Pioneers we caught up with John Matthews, a self proclaimed climate change adaptation 'midwife' with the WWF, to find out more about his work, his motivations and his hopes for the future.

 

 

 

 

 

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