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Our Reflections on WDW 2014

July 28, 2014 Shafiqul Islam and Larry Susskind
We recently completed our 4th Water Diplomacy Workshop (WDW) with 32 participants from 16 countries. We were fortunate to have a wonderful and diverse group of people eager to listen, learn and share. We originally designed this 5-day experience to provide a practical approach to synthesizing the theory and practice of water to create actionable knowledge. We know this workshop experience is intense. Each morning, we start...
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Urban Water Challenges Workshop – Reflections and Next Steps

June 1, 2014 Shafiqul Islam
Earlier this spring, Harvard University’s South Asia Institute hosted its annual symposium, a two-day program focused on South Asia Regionalism: Shared Challenges and the Way Forward. I was privileged to lead the the Urban Water Challenges panel and workshop held during the symposium with Peter Rogers, Afreen Siddiqi, Farhana Sultana and Jim Wescoat. Some major [...]
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Dr. Robin Stonecash to present ideas of water diplomacy at conference in Orange, NSW, Australia

July 2, 2013 Amanda Repella
Dr. Robin Stonecash (Director, Executive Projects, UTS Business School) , a 2012 WDW alum, will be presenting Water – our need for a new brand of diplomacy on August 6 2013 at a Holistic Management Conference  in Orange, NSW, Australia. She was recently featured in The Land, where she discussed working with water conflicts in [...]
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Water Alternatives publishes special issue “Voices of Water Professionals”

June 18, 2013 Amanda Repella
The June 2013 issue of Water Alternatives focuses on “many of the problems, ethical dilemmas, and frustrations that those of us involved with international development recurrently encounter, but rarely discuss and hardly ever write about.” The articles in this issue, “Voices of Water Professionals: Shedding Light on Hidden Dynamics in the Water Sector,” written by [...]
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Water Diplomacy on CNBC

June 17, 2013 Amanda Repella
A CNBC report on the extent and costs to address United States’ aging water infrastructure quotes Shafiqul Islam, Director, Water Diplomacy. The article mainly focuses on aging water infrastructure and various plans to address the costs of fixing infrastructure, but also addresses groundwater depletion in the U.S.
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Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards recognize Pacific Institute and Dr. Peter Gleick

April 23, 2013 Amanda Repella
Dr. Peter Gleick and the Pacific Institute were honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards ceremony in San Jose for World Water Day 2013. The Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards are presented to organizations, agencies, businesses, and individuals whose programs and leadership have advanced water conservation in Silicon Valley. [...]
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Difficult Decisions and Dramatic Reforms to Solve China’s Water Problems? Scott Moore featured in International Herald Tribune

April 3, 2013 Amanda Repella
Scott Moore is a Giorgio Ruffolo Doctoral Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University, an RCN Partner; and he is also a doctoral candidate at Oxford University. Mr. Moore’s current research focuses on hydropolitics in China. A few days ago, his work was featured in the International Herald Tribune. His op-ed,  China’s Massive Water [...]
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Peter Gleick on Water Wars and Rising Seas

March 18, 2013 Amanda Repella
Dr. Peter H. Gleick, the co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute, is also a member of the Editorial Board for the upcoming Anthem Water Diplomacy Series. The Pacific Institute is an RCN Partner In February, Dr. Gleick  began a new National Geographic Science Blog, Significant Figures, in which he discusses the science and policy [...]
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Dr. Asit K. Biswas in The European, Business Times, and Water Challenge Blog

March 13, 2013 Amanda Repella
Professor Asit K. Biswas is Founder of the Third World Centre for Water Management in Mexico, and Distinguished visiting professor of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. The Third World Centre is a Water Diplomacy RCN Partner. In January, Dr. Biswas was the subject of an interview in the The European (article link, archived pdf @ TWC), published an Op. Ed. Can the world’s water crisis be solved? with Julian Kirchherr in Business Times (Singapore) (archived pdf @ TWC) and was featured as a guest author at the Nestlé Water Challenge Blog...
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