Sharing and Caring for Water, Durban

Participatory water governance is practiced successfully in South Africa at different levels. The eThekwini municipality of Durban and the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA), winners of the 2015 Water for Life Decade best practice award and member of the Global Participatory Water Management Network organized the Sharing and Caring for Water conference  in Durban, South Africa to discuss pathways to participative and cooperative water governance. The program included a selection of good practices across Southern Africa, linking local practice to global concerns.

The conference highlighted that water security requires all custodians to be equally committed and underpinned the importance government support to facilitate  collaboration. An executive summary of the conference proceedings is available here.

The conference also had the objective to carry the voices of Africa to the World Water Forum 8 in Brazil. I delivered the keynote speech as member of the Citizens Commission of World Water Forum 8. You can view the presentation outline here.

The Global Participatory Water Management Network visited Envirosan Waterless Sanitation Solutions.