 Good afternoon, everyone, and I think some of you know me. I'm Hong Li from the International Water Association, and I'm now the Director for the Asian Oceanian Region for IWA. Thank you for joining this member induction meeting. And I hope through this meeting, you will know more about IWA, about membership, about how you engage. At the same time, you can also know some of my colleagues. And in the future, if you have specific questions, you can ask the right person, the right question. So before we start, let's have some housekeeping rules. During the presentation, please keep your mic off. And you can use the chat box to ask questions and introduce yourself. And as you know, that's all the meetings we record. So this is only for internal use. And after the presentation, we will have discussions and Q&A sessions. And you can feel free to turn on your mic and video and to talk. OK, without further ado, let's start. You can see now today, there are several of my colleagues presenting with the first one, Dr. Samuela Dita, as the Strategic Program and Engagement Manager. So start the presentation. Thank you. Samuela, please. Yes, yes, hi, hi everyone. Thank you so much, Hong. Very nice to be here to see you all. So as Hong was saying, we want to give you a little bit of another view about IWA and what are the opportunities for you as members. So first things first, let's start from what is IWA, right? So we are the world's largest membership organization focused on water. And then our members really allow us to be a catalyst for innovation towards achieving the SDGs and ensure a more sustainable world as you all, I think, as you all know. So our work is inspired by our strategic goals. We want to ensure our members engage and represent all countries. We position ourselves at the forefront of innovation in the water. We provide a platform where all our members can exchange knowledge and bridge the gap between research and practice. And by doing so, of course, we want to support the implementation of the SDGs. So our commitment for a more balanced membership results in a series of action to ensure that low and middle income countries are represented in all our activities, in all our communication outputs, and of course, in our events. So this is something that we, as an organization, really believe in. So let's look a little bit more about our work. So what do we do? We organize and support events with, of course, our most famous one, we've been the World Water Congress and the World Development Congress. We publish journals and the book in collaboration with our members. We have a magazine called The Source that our members receive periodically. And through webinars, courses, and discussions, we provide professional development opportunities for all our members. So how are we organized? So it really depends on the year in the sector and the interest of our members. So based on the personal interest, our members can join specialist groups and other communities like the utilities and the regulators community. Based on their experience in the water sector, they can be part of different groups like the young water professionals that you will hear more about later. And these are all our members that are below 35 years old or our fellows and distinguished fellows, for example. These includes all the members who have been recognized for their incredible contribution to the water sector. In addition, each country also has a representative in our membership. And these are the governing members. And we also have partnership and collaboration with several organizations all across the world. So as you can see from this map, again, our members are all around the world. We have a headquarters in London where we are all based. And an office in Chennai in India. Now I think my party is concluded. So I'll hand over to Charles, who will tell you more about our members. So Charles, the floor is yours. Thank you, Samuela. It's very nice to be here. Can you move to the next slide, Samuela? So as Samuela was mentioning, we are a membership organization and we have members all over the world. And if you look at the membership, we have three different categories of membership, an individual member, a corporate member, and a university member. And our membership are for one and two years, which means you can either be a one-year member or a two-year member based on the data you join the organization. Now, within these categories, individual, corporate, and you know, we have other such categories within the membership. So for an individual, you can either be an individual member or a student member or a retired member based on your group that you belong to. And you can also be a member by your institution, which means your institution becomes part of the organization. They will take either a corporate membership or a university membership. And then you are nominated by your university or a corporate as a member within my W.A. And these also have further subclassifications like corporate has a small, medium, and large based on the size of the corporate. And university also have further classification like a small, basic, large, medium, sort of, based on the size of the university. So overall, if you look at, this is based on the statics in 2023. We have almost 8,000 plus active members, which means we are active for one or two years. They pay membership fee for one or two years. And there are group of people who are associated with IWA now as active members who have also some sort of an opportunity within IWA but not as active members. And we have very large corporate members and they are called network members. And currently we have around 30,000 plus network members within the organization. They associate with us in our events, the balance and so on. The opportunities are much less than an active member. So if you look at the statics, we have around 320 corporate and some university. And we also have a category called the running members who are not in the membership category. It's a different category. We are now on to the governance of the institution. Being a governing member, I mean, you are represented, I mean, each country is represented in IWA as a governing member. So we have 162 countries represented in IWA. We place a custom between the country on IWA and then we have a more right towards governance in terms of right to work for the board of members, elected president, vice president, and so on. They also represent the notion of the country to the IWA level, which is that has to be done over country level. And they also infuse both original level developments to the global community and also they try to abstract whatever is happening in IWA to the region level. Next slide, please. So if you look at the benefits of being a member, we have a lot more benefits, but we just have to be at work quite a number of times, it's very tangible to remember. So most of the members join IWA because it's a huge network and it would help them in the professional development and leadership development programs. For example, you are associated to a lot of peers or so-called big professionals in the sector that you are working with, which would help them into interaction with them, work along with them in different IWA opportunities. You get special rates at IWA events or you get a discounted rates in IWA events. You also have access to a platform called IWA Connectless, which I will be talking later. And thereby, you can also participate in IWA specialist group, which I will be also letting you know what exactly is those problems. And you can also be part of the specialist group and again become the management committee of that specialist group. In order to engage in online development, you are benefited to have a magazine which is a bottle of magazine called The Source, which you will be receiving. You also have access to IWA Trash Just, which is part of a digital library where you can abstract all the resources that's been cataloged, that's been developed in the events, applications in IWA and that has been cataloged, which you also have access with. With respect to publishing, you got blockbooks and jars, which are open access, which you can avail it on for the last five years, you are able to access free and above five years all the other ones might have to pay a small fee for it. And you would be having access to, when the students are access to one of the digital jars and the discount rate, there's a two percentage discount on the APC charges for publication. And so, next slide please. In terms of the regions, right? If you look at and I'll get right to it in terms of regional representation within the world sector or within the global community, and which is led by Asia being the largest faction for the world only African and China. And if you look at the top countries, we have China followed by India, US, UK, and Southeast Asia is also represented and Malaysia is having around 250 plus 250 members. And if you look at the regional level for the South Asia, we have almost like Malaysia followed by Philippines and Cambodia in terms of membership numbers. And this is pretty crucial because we all know that Malaysia is going to post it only when you go to the Congress and the representation and engagement should be more in terms of having this Congress being a successful and so we can become members and also engage and learn more about IWU. I'll pass on to our specialist group coordinator, Rachna, for taking over. Thank you. I think to ask, hi everyone, my name is Rachna Sarkari. Hi, sorry, Rachna, we cannot hear you properly. Oh, sorry. Hi, thank you, Jazz. And hi, everyone. My name is Rachna Sarkari and I'm working as a membership engagement officer. My responsibility is to oversee all the specialist group's activities. And here I will briefly describe about all the specialist group. So what are these specialist group? And you can see here the specialist group are the engine of IWU. I think it's all clear. SG is specialist groups are self-managed community. As you know, the IWU is a global network of water and sanitation professionals. But these specialist group, they are the main mechanism to bring all these, all the like-minded people under, like-minded professionals under a specialized topic. So we have different specialist group and they have their specialized topic like water laws, anaerobic digestion and many more. You can find them on IWU Connect Plus. And they are very good. The SG, they connect people from across discipline and national boundaries to accelerate the science innovation and practices that can make a difference in addressing water and pushes the sustainability agenda. They are spread, they have, our members are, they have a spread more than 130 countries and they are very effective means of international networking, sharing information and skills and making professional and business contacts. Next slide, please. Yeah, so these specialist group, you can see this, they represent the whole water cycle. You can see this infographic and they are working almost everywhere. And as a member, IWU member, you can join up to 51 specialist group. And as a member of these specialist group, you can take up the responsibility of creating task group and working groups. You can also help in publishing your SG publications like submitting content to newsletters, reviewing conference papers, co-authorizing book chapters, also proposing webinars. You have seen many, maybe if you go to our website, you will get all those IWA supported webinars video. You can also propose these webinar through your SG's specialist groups. You can also participate in many trainings and other evaluated programs. You can also take up the leadership role from management, the management committee members and the organization of group activities and specialized conferences. Next. So we have these management committee members. As you have already seen, Charles has presented the overview of all those members. They are from all different parts of the world. But here, I am showing you the management committee members number. We have members and they are the members who they overseas the day-to-day activities of specialist groups. And they are the leaders and the total members we have from Asia is 20% and they are very active members and they have been actively participating in all our SG's activities. Next. You can also meet all these members. They are from Southeast Asia. We have members from everywhere, but we have just presented these members. So you can get in touch with them on IWA Connect Plus. You can see their profile there. You can send them messages and learn more from these leaders and they are from Sunpa, from Malaysia, the other members. I am not going to take their names one by one, but you can find them on IWA Connect Plus and get in touch with them. Thank you from my side. And I will hand over these to Dr. Isabella. Thank you. Thank you, Reshanem. And Anishu Imidio. As someone introduced, I'm Dr. Isabella Spindola and I am responsible for the Anguara professionals and the regulators within IWA. So now I'm going to go through some of the other communities that we have within IWA. Reshanem mentioned about the specialist groups, but we also have our government members. We have more than 62 government members all over the world. And we have the distinguished fellows and also the fellows. And then, of course, the Anguara professionals that I am responsible for. Somala, can you move to the next slide, please? Thank you. And what we want with all these communities is to engage our members. And our end with this establishment of groups is to really have you guys leading IWA. So when we start getting to know IWA, you get to know IWA via the publication, the partnerships, you join some of our online events or in-person events. And then you start this engagement with us. You become an IWA member. You decided to join one of our communities. And then the next step would be this contribution part. So you join the community to get really active on it. You can write the content that we have. For example, the book chapters, the blogs, and also the position papers. You can help us organize events, proposing workshops, webinars, as Reshanem mentioned, that is the possibility of proposing webinars and also some courses. And you are really coming up to the next step in terms of leading IWA, becoming, for example, part of the management's committee from the specialist group, from the Young Water Professionals Turning Committee, or you can be part of IWA country chapter and being part of this management community that we have. And you're trying to represent IWA as much as possible within your country. And you can, for example, join the congress program communities that we have and also the strategic council. Next. And now focusing on the Young Water Professionals, we have a lot of chapters in South Asia region and I'm going to talk a little bit about them later. But what is this community? Who can be part of this community? So for being like an IWA, YWP member, it's not a different membership. As long as you are age 35 years old or younger, you are automatically considering YWP, Young Water Professionals. And our Young Water Professionals, they are from this multidisciplinary backgrounds related to the water sector. And when we establish this community and our objectives, it's really to empower YWPs to contribute to sustainable water management. And we want them to be engaged with YWA, connected with the other communities that we have in a way they can reach this professional development that they are eager and they want to achieve it. And of course, as they are getting more engaged with YWA, they reach out this recognition within the association, but also with the broader water sector. And here in the photo, you can see our currently steering committee. These are the group that help us to shape the Young Water Professionals community and they are elected every two years. So as you can see, this group is finishing their term this year. So we will be hosting elections soon. Next. This infographic is just for you to understand how the Young Water Professionals defeat with an IWA structure. So when it comes to the national level, we have the country chapters. And in case you are interested to create a chapter in a country that we don't have, just let us know and I can help you through this process. And in the international level, we have the steering committee and they're all connected with the secretariat. So they send me emails and we try to engage them as much as possible with all this structure that we have with the association. Next. So as I mentioned, we have a lot of chapters all over the world. And you can see the ones that in dark blue are the new ones that we had created in 2023. And the others are the older Young Water chapters that we have. And specifically in the South Asian regions, we have Australia, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Sri Lanka. So there are a lot of chapters, but in case you're from a country that we currently don't have, just reach out to me and we can start organizing and I can help you in this process of creating chapters. And if you're an Young Water professional and you're wondering how to get involved with YWA, so here in the slide, I have all the answers. So you can join Connect Plus, our dedicated group for Young Water professional can check all the news and information and the discussion that we have there. And you can be part of the steering committee. So we're having elections, why not apply to it? If you fulfill the criteria that we have, you can join the chapter or you can create the chapter. There are opportunities for you to join Specialist Group Management Committee being as a YWP representative. You can join the Emerging Water Leaders Forum that we will be hosting, by the way, in Toronto. And soon we're gonna be opening the call for volunteers to help us organize. So you can also be a volunteer in the program committee. And you can join events and other organizing committees from events, from YWP conference that we have. And you can apply for the exclusive opportunities that we create for Young Water professionals. So, yeah. So thank you, everyone. If you have any question, please, just drop in my email or type here in the chat. Edding. Thank you, Isabella. Hi, everyone. My name is Erin Jordan. I'm a strategic programs officer in IWA, coordinating specifically the digital water program. Today I'm gonna tell you a bit about the IWA programs right now, actively. And just to give you an idea about what we do, what programs are here to establish change agendas on key themes for a water-wise world that contribute to sustainable development. So I'll just give you a bit of information about each program. I'll start with the water and sanitation services. So with water utilities, national and international institutions, the IWA water and sanitation services program works to ensure the safe, reliable, equitable, and efficient supply and service delivery of water and sanitation. And we do this through innovative pilot projects in international frameworks and advocacy to improve regulation and policy, including the implementation of water safety plans and sanitation safety plans. The Cities of the Future agenda harnesses the power of the IWA network to co-create solutions and join efforts to manage the city's many waters in a sustainable and resilient manner and approach endorsed by the IWA principles of water-wise cities. Also, the Basins of the Future agenda promotes a connection between urban stakeholders and their basins. So building on the same IWA principles of water-wise cities as well as the IWA action agenda for basin-connected cities, it aims to guide cities, industries, and their basins in the sustainable planning and management of water resources across scales, from catchment to consumer, meeting growing demands and responding to the challenges of climate variability and change. Next slide. So the Digital Water Programme, it provides a platform for mainly water utilities to explore and share their experiences on their digital water journey. Of course, this is open to other professionals as well who are interested in digital water. The programme provides road maps and guidance that will help water utilities in making the transition to the next generation of smart water systems and fulfill the need for improved resiliency to secure and sustainably manage water resources now and in the future. The Digital Water Programme produces several outputs and this includes white paper series and you can see on the screen blogs, podcasts and more. So here we have the Earth Observation for Water Management subgroup is a community of practice that focuses a lot on using satellite data for water management. We have the Digital Transformation Hub, which gives you real-life case studies of digital solutions that have improved the water management for different cities. As mentioned, the white paper series where you can go and learn about different, the different aspects of digital water. We were also part of a European Horizon Project. You can learn more about Prem Water there. You can read our Digital Water Report, the first one and then you can learn how to engage with us next slide. So the Inclusive Urban Sanitation Initiative. This was launched in Copenhagen at the 2022 Ida Bear Water Congress. It gained momentum through the Sanitation Campaign. And in 2023 last year, the engagement efforts have seen significant success and this was notably through the election of a diverse advisory board and task force with four strategic subgroups and to help guide the initiative's priorities. Also as part of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, the component of this initiative, seven governing members were on boarded from the low and middle income countries in 2023. The initiative has also hosted the recently concluded World Water Development Congress in Kigali, a Sanitation Innovation Acceleration Forum and the Ida Bear Sanitation Innovators Expo, which provided a platform for discussions on sanitation and technology offerings, particularly from Africa. Next slide. So for the Inclusive Urban Sanitation, these are the key actions and opportunities, publications, blogs, webinars, online courses, biennial innovation conference, as well as the Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Awards. For more information, you could always contact Florence and Patrick and you can see their contacts below. And Patrick has just added some links in the chat as well. Next slide, Tamela. So the Climate Smart Utilities Initiative it was launched to support all utilities were a way to act collectively and share knowledge. So the goal of the initiative is to assist water and wastewater and urban drainage companies in improving their climate resilience by adapting to a changing climate while contributing to significant and sustainable reduction of carbon emissions. The initiative aims to deliver value to utilities and inspire the wider water professional community. Next slide. Also underneath this initiative is the Climate Smart Utilities Recognition Program, which offers utilities an opportunity to reflect on their climate smart journey and presents actions to an international audience and shares aspirations to achieve a climate smart water sector. At the 2022 World Water Congress and at the 2023 Water Development Congress, the utilities listed on the screen from the Philippines were recognized for their contributions to, for their improvement and success on their climate smart journey. For more information about this, you can contact my colleague Charles who spoke to you earlier and who will speak to you again as well as Brenda who is on screen. Next slide. So my colleague Rachna and my colleague Isabella, they told you about the different communities as well as the specialist groups. And what we try to do in IWA is to connect all of our members to use everybody's knowledge to the benefit of the water sector. And so no matter which community you are a part of, we try to promote collaboration amongst these. We, and this can be through the publication, webinars and events. We can engage our members through the steering committees and management committees of each community as well as the different advisory boards within the programs, initiatives and communities of practice. And now I will hand over to Charles again. Thank you. Thanks, Erin. Again, and so I want to talk about something more on IWA Connect Plus, which is a dynamic platform which I would say you could compare it with a LinkedIn or a Facebook of what you have been using or you know about. So we have transformed our old platform which is called Connect to a new platform which is Connect Plus on last January, January 17th, 2023, which is a dynamic platform where you can know more about the organization, know what's happening within the organization, know more about the latest news, the developments, the most red. So there are multiple components within that platform. Once you log in, you have to give up because I suppose all of you are new members. Once you log into the platform, you have to give your, you have to complete your profile where you have to specify what specialist group that you would like to join, which are the three or four specialist group that you wanted to know more about. You can look at the whatever people that you are working within your sector. You can search based on the key word, you will find those members and so on. And once you are in the homepage, you could see whatever latest news, what are the latest announcements within the organization, are there any new events coming up in the new webinars happening around algorithm, what are the latest journals or articles that's being appropriated more or more spread, articles or most spread journals or books or publications that you could look at. Who are the future members? Which means what have they done differently? And you can look at what they have done differently and then kind of learn and then try to see what is benefit for your interest. It also have a sort of community page where you can look at all the specialist group within the organization. Also look at what are the different programs in the organization, what are happening between within these specialist groups or communities. If you're part of a GM or they're a learning member, you can look at them. You can click on the page and see what are the activities happening now. So there are a lot of opportunities within the Connect Plus for YouTube network and Connect with members and also learn about the latest contributions. You can also post, like any platform, you can post either on blogs, you're on articles within the platform as such, which would be widely spread by the water community. And we also have something called a touch chest, which is the emails that you see on the right bottom, where it is a process. It's not of a digital library of all the content that has been developed within the IDW events reports, publications and so on. So if you search for any keyword, you will find a lot of articles related to that topic. It could be a presentation, it could be a video recording, it could be a podcast. So it would be one stop solution where on stop play is where you can actually look at all the contents that's been developed within IDW on that particular topic. And I think it should be a huge interest for you, especially if you're coming from academia or the educational community. Because you also have a lot of case studies that's been shared today. Can we move to the next slide please? So this is what I was telling you, once you complete your profile, you can select a different specialist group within the organization. And based on your interest, you can be able to, which Regina was telling me, with the 51 specialist groups, you can select based on your interest, based on your mind in which you work on, you can select your specialist group, we do belong to you and get updates from those specialist groups. So you will get updates with respect to the upcoming events, newsletters, recent developments and variations within that specialist group. So what's happening within that particular specialist group as such? Can you move to the next slide please? And once you are in that specialist group and once you are in the minus one committee, you also would be able to know the characteristics of the people within that specialist group. You would know the numbers where they come from, what sector they do, how much they have participated within that specialist group, what are their contributions in terms of plots, newsletters, events and so on. So we also got an overview of the characteristics and interaction within the specialist group. And so you can also look at who is contributing more and then also try to collaborate, try to learn from them and so on. Can you move to the next slide please? We have a quarterly magazine which I've told you before, which is called The Source. And so it is more of a magazine where most of our members write about their opinions and our future article, scale studies. There is a future article from our security director in terms of the vision or the status quo of the organization that, on that timeline. And then we also have some of the news articles and that will be also published which in terms of the latest news that's happened over that time period. If you want to, we would encourage people to also participate in it. So if you want to participate, if you want to contribute to such articles, you can write to us and come back with a detailed keyword in the email that was given in the bottom. So you can actually participate in some of the article in the source. Next slide please. We do have events, I hope you would be knowing this right now. So we say that every week of the year we have an event close to the world. So if you look at, we have almost 50 specialist students. They do at least an event in the new year. So we have almost 25 specialist student events. So for me to go into specialist student events. Apart from that, IWB has its own flagship events which is a biannual world of commerce which happens in developed companies in every two years or 30 years. And then we also have water and development commerce which happens in developing countries in the new years. We also have a biannual professional conference. We also have a leading public conference. And like I said, we have our own clinical program, especially to be once happening every year. We will be having a region learning conference and there are also IWB support events. So if you or your institution would like to also host an event, you can apply for an IWB support event which also gives you an opportunity to host an event with IWB. We also have a digital water conference which is also a part of flagship event of IWB which happens in every year. The last edition was in, please correct me if I'm wrong. I forgot the name. The last edition was in last November, right? It doesn't really know. Yeah. So what I meant to say is that we have a lot of events and it also has opportunities for you to participate in these events. Meaning you can participate in terms of submitting a paper or submitting an article which either would be a paper or a poster presentation. You can participate, you can submit for a workshop proposal and then if you get accepted by the program then you can have a workshop in present-day or you can participate as a delegate in those in the conference and then attend a paper presentation, it's also presentations, workshop presentations, other programs and initiatives that IWB would be convening at the conference. You will see how the access opportunity to be a chair or a chair or a co-chair within those plans itself. So we have different technical sessions where you can be a chair or a co-chair or a co-chair of the sessions. You can also be a part of the organizing community and programity which has also a lot of visibility for you in terms of your profile. You know, these are things that would help in the compulsion of the leadership of the working organization. And obviously, if you are a part of the community you also have a special advocate in terms of being volunteering in some of these events you might or sometimes you might have a financial support for you to participate in these events. You have another part of the thing which I would also like to do on this we also have a big exhibition associated to or by any of you in the program at the Congress and working at the Congress where you can exhibit or you can participate as a sponsor or an executive from your institution. And for this you can contact QCTO for some of you instead. Next slide, please. This is more of a presentation of the Congresses from the beginning in a world where the Congress on the World Development Congress and the World Preservation. The last world where the Congress was in Copenhagen in 2022 and 2024 it is going to be in Toronto, Canada and 2026 it is going to be in Glasgow and 2028 it is going to be in Malaysia which we had recently been celebrated and accepted by the board in last September. Thanks to Malaysian committee for providing such a good application for the strong competition between Malaysia, Brazil and a few other countries and Malaysia Act the conference on the list and the best wishes to the committee for the 2028 conference. Next slide, please. So this is what I was telling the next of this edition of the World Congress which is going to be in Toronto, Canada is from 11th to 15th of August. We closed all those submissions and I think the evaluation is happening now and probably the program would be out very soon but you can participate in the different opportunities you can be a delegate, you can be like I said, you can be a chair or co-chair or you can be participating in some of the workshops that would be proposed to be in the conference. I would say like we would like to have most of you being there because you could also learn and collaborate with the, you know to know more about how this conference are organized you can have sort of a visibility in the way when you plan for 2028 conference. So this would be another great language for you to actually participate because it takes a long term, we anticipate almost three different ways for actually the plan, for the planning to see one. So it's a great time and we encourage people to actually attend the conference. Next slide, please. Apart from the sort of regular activities we are really proud in terms of celebrating and very much committed in promoting or in sort of recognizing the wider world sector. These are awards where in which we celebrate the best practices, the innovations, the technology within the world sector. So it's beyond the membership. Anyone who is, who within the world sector has done a lot of contribution to the sector. We have different awards associated to it. So we have a global network which is which is an auspicious signal, which we say about another contribution in the world sector. We have a winning award. We have a N leadership award if you are in the center, if I contribute to a lot, you would be part of, you could apply for it. You have a sort of a professional development award. You also have a membership, but this is particularly for the members of IWDA in terms of how they have been contributing within IWDA award in terms of ongoing outstanding member award and so on. We also have a category called Project Innovation Awards, which is a few-order institution who has done a significant project in terms of, you know, which had a lot of innovation, which had a lot of best practices, a technology that has been adopted. You can apply for this award, which has been for the six sub-categories on that plan. If, and this is all awards have been evaluated by the jury, which would then let you know the results would be announced during the conference and then you will be awarded. So like I said, we are very much committed to the work sector and we recognize the part we wanted to recognize and we recognize all the contribution within the work sector as such. The applications for the awards are open, I believe. So you could start applying for the awards, which would be, all these awards would be celebrated in the, in the world of Congress and so on. Next slide, please. So that's it from all from our side, I mean, I would encourage, still encourage people to go to our website and the links that has been shared from our colleagues in the chat box. There might be much more than that. You would like to know more about IWDA. If you are ready for the questions, you can be served in any of the parts where you can even rise with Dr. Omni, who is an important leader in that case. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you all for the presentation. And I can see that we have already more than 100 attendees and one of the largest portion of attendees actually is from Lampen Water Authority, Water Supply Authority, PPWSA in Cambodia. I'm just wondering if anyone from PPWSA, for example, Mr. Lang Naro, if you want to say a few words. Yes. Good afternoon from Cambodian, from Lampen Water Supply. Thank you so much for your briefing for all the activity of IWDA. And now I think that we start to get more information in order how to participate into the IWDA work. So see how we can do, how we can share our experience to IWDA in order to how to make operate between PPWSA to IWDA. It's a very interesting presentation that when I see the presentation. And based on our activity, what we have here now, we try to push as much as possible in order to meet the SDG of 2030 with a coverage of 100%. So day by day, we are very busy to our project because we are now already nearly 100% so we're another 2G or reach to 100% based on our project. So therefore to work with IWDA, we are still not yet connected very well because we are busy on our project. But we're interesting, a lot of things there that I will push my team, especially the young generation to see how we can work together, how to share our idea based on activity, progress of our work, what we have here and push them to go more detail inside the IWDA in order to get more idea, experience, lesson learned from IWDA. So that is our plan to see because I think we already signed a contract last year but we did not have any progress of presentation like this. I think today we see the presentation and I think most of my team is inside the screen. I think today they follow up and from now on I will try to push my team in order to participate to the IWDA team work. So that is that I can say today and we see how we can look into more close cooperation with IWDA to the future. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you very much. I will follow up with you. Actually we mentioned already that one of the most exciting IWDA activities is actually the World Water Congress and Exhibition and then in four years it's going to be in Kuching, Sarawak and it's really a lot of support from Malaysian Water Association. It's huge support from them. So I want to invite Kelvin Kokhanyi to say a few words about this Congress preparation. Hi, Kelvin. Good afternoon. Some of you, good morning maybe. Thank you very much for organizing this induction seminar, Dr. Hongli and we are very pleased to meet the family for International Water Association. Also our friends from Nongpen Water are good to see you. I think were you here in Kuching in 2022 in the Borneo International Water and Wastewater Exhibition Conference, I think. So we are very happy as Dr. Hongli has mentioned that we have been selected as a host for the World Water Congress and Exhibition for the year 2028. We are very excited. We have quite a few programs to run up to the 2028. I think the first of which is that we will join the Toronto this year in August. We have been contacted by Mr. Kizito and Roy. So we are planning to have a presence at the Toronto and maybe to bring some of our friends from the region. And then we have our own, as you know Sarawak is one of the largest state in Malaysia. We are on the island of Borneo. And in October this year, we have actually an event called the Borneo International Water and Wastewater Conference and Exhibition. So that is taking place on the 23rd to the 23rd of October right now. So we hope that we will be able to get involvement from the International Water Association. I think this is something that is ongoing discussion. So once the program has been fixed and more established, we will send the information to everybody here. So we would like to invite as many as we can to come and join us. So that's all for us. From now, thank you Dr. Ongli. Thank you, Kelvin. So I hope we can have a set of activities going towards the World Water Congress Exhibition in the region. And now I open the floor to everyone who wants to ask questions. You can turn on your video and unmute yourself when you speak. I think we may have given too much information. Too many things to ask and then they don't know how to start. But I just wanted to say that in our website there is the list of IWA staff and all our activities that we have introduced to you today. So don't be afraid to just reach out at any point. Isabella was mentioning about a chapter, why there will be chapter in Cambodia. I think that would be great to start. So if any of you wants to take a lead on that, please feel free to reach out to her. And so yeah, I think this is where we can go from here. But if any of you has a question now, please feel free to ask now. I have a question. Yes, please. Related to the young leadership, right? This is a one section that we need to have more detail on this type of what they call participation. Participation because for me in the future we like to bring our young generation to have more connection among each other in the water sector. So therefore for me, how that PSA can connect more detail inside of this group. If I may jump in this. So thank you for a question. I agree with you that it's really important to get this connection, establish this connection with young professionals. And when we form a chapter, we try to understand as much as possible the challenges that the country is facing, specifically in the water sector and how this young generation, these young professionals, they can play a role in solving the challenges and helping this broad water sector with all the industries and the stakeholders that you have in the country to connect themselves and to find the solutions. And when I talk about challenges, it's not about specifically like to water quality or water quantity, but it's also with this generation gap that we have with the senior levels that they are retiring and we need a new workforce that they need to have the specific skills to be ready to step up and to lead the decisions and all the governance and management procedures that we have when it comes to water resources. Okay, all right. Okay, I understand. So let's see how we can connect together. So I will push my team to research more on this. I added my email in the chat, so if they can reach out to me and then we can start this conversation. Okay, thank you, thank you. Meena, you need to do something. For another question, you see, you have also a specialist. How we connect to the specialist in the IVAR team? How can we connect? Because sometimes if you have a problem in terms of water quality, sometimes we do every day our implementation in terms of control water quality, but some areas that may not well from our side. So how can we, for example, put all of this information to IVAR in order to know by IVAR and get some idea and time not only put some big effort, but at least sometimes, for example, if you have sometimes so much manganade inside the water. So what IVAR can give, what specialist IVAR can help us, you know, all of this. So it look like online talking in order to solve the problem of daily activity, to solve the problem among each other. So how are the channels for that? Hi, so as you have seen, we have 51 specialist group. So as per your this issue you are raising here or you're interested in this subject, you can first, you can check all these specialist group if you find anything very relevant and they're very, you feel like they can help you in this matter. You can approach that specialist group through IWConnect or you can write an email to me and I will connect you to that specialist group. And then you can start your discussions with all their SG leaders and the leaders first, they will discuss this issue with you, they will have a meeting, they will try and understand your problem and then they will make a plan how to solve this issue or what to do in collaboration with you. So there are different ways and they're very self-managed. They have their own plans and different members and from different countries, they work together. So the best way to first find a relevant specialist group then approach these SG leaders and start having a discussion or raising this problem and making a plan how to solve this issue and as per my understanding and I would also like Dr. Hong if she wants to add something in this. Yeah, in addition, I think you could also pay attention to the specialized events happening somewhere in the world and to see if there are like up-to-date knowledge and technologies sharing that you can learn from them. And at the same time, if you want to bring some of the international experts to the region or to Cambodia to have a seminar or organize something particularly for the topics and the challenges you are facing. So that would be something we can work together, I think. Very good, very good, understand. Thank you so much. So I think now start to learn step by step. Yes, we work together, we collaborate. Thank you. And may I ask all the participants if possible you switch on your video so that we can take a snapshot, something like that. Thank you. If anyone would like to ask any questions after this meeting, you are more than welcome to send emails to members at IWAHQ.org. I can put this email address in the chat as well. Thanks, Hong. Yeah, so maybe a brief introduction. My name is Patti Krono. I work with the IWA on the Inclusive Urban Sanction Initiative. So I did share a link of the initiative page. I'll also share my email address in case you have any particular questions. Please ask if you could just give it to me. Thank you so much. Thank you, Patrick. I hope everyone can join Toronto. It's an amazing opportunity for you to be aware of the community and to be up to date with the knowledge and the leading edge technologies. Thank you very much. Have a nice day. Thank you all. Thank you.