 It's two o'clock, so it's time to get started. I can't believe I'm saying that it's planned for this afternoon, which I know is an exciting project, so we don't want to miss out on any part of it. First of all, welcome to the seminar. I wanted to introduce myself, it's very important that you are here enough of me later today, so I'm sure you can know me, but I would like to introduce the director of this huge research professor and more to introduce me then for today. Okay, thank you very much. And indeed you will hear more from me. First of all, I would like to welcome all of you here. I think you're here in a large group and I think it's a quite nice mixture of people and backgrounds here, which I think will make the afternoon even more exciting. I think one thing is there that combines us all and that's water. So it's about water today and we hope to be able, first of all, to let you see a little bit on what we're doing here at IT, especially in collaboration with the rotary, and secondly also why we think water is such an important topic. So I hope that that will be the message that you can take home. If something is not clear or you have points that you would like to discuss or questions, we do have, I think, a nice coffee break with also reception, plus we also give time for questions and answers. So I hope that we will have a nice interactive meeting and session soon. When I was asked to give a kickoff, so to do the start here, I think that was also something that I like to do. I started here a year ago as director of this institute. The real nice thing about this institute is that it's a national institute. So it's quite different from most other institutes in the Netherlands, although a lot of the institutes in the Netherlands work in an international way. We consider ourselves an international institute based in the Netherlands. And with that, I also would like to welcome a couple of special guests here. And I think we have two interesting people here and I think they're well-placed. I think what I want to do is I would like to welcome two foundation trustees as Julia Phelps and Per Hoij. So thanks very much for being here. Secondly, I think that also with the director you liked, Jan-Dukas Kettier, and he will say a few words later on. I think that's also interesting to have him here in the room. A special welcome I would like to offer actually to Alson Engelundur. And the reason is a bit that she was here last year as well, so we met and we had some quite nice discussions. But what I like about it is that I think she's the first, say, rotary who offered a grant actually from personal interest in water. And I think I can also talk on behalf of her pastures on the rotary IC program. And I do think that's a building block for our collaboration, especially for the future. So thanks for being here else again and good to have you on board. And then I would like to say a few words about IG very briefly, because I can talk for at least a week here, but I will not do that in three minutes. IG is, like I said, an international institute. We have a very strong collaboration with UNESCO. And what we do is we provide actually activities on three different fields. The first field is education. And we'll come back to that in a second. The second one is research. And the third one is what we call institutional strengthening. The first one, education. What we work with is with MSc programs, short courses, MSc programs in there. We're aiming at students coming, especially from mid-career positions from the water sector, from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. So that's why we think it's also a nice second here, because those people come here and they know what their problems are. So they come to IG knowing very well what they want to know, what they want to work at, and that gives them a rather intense atmosphere with a lot of interesting questions that they ask actually to the lecturers, sometimes making it rather difficult for them, but that's their job. But I think that gives a very nice situation here in the institute. The second part is research sites. And the research site is also aiming at applied research. So we're doing academic support research, aiming at finding solutions that you can apply in the field, if possible, directly, and if not, we're looking how we can bring it to the next level to put it in the market. And the last part is what we call institutional strengthening. And institutional strengthening is mainly about partnerships. And there we talk about partnerships is lifelong learning with our alumni, and so we try to engage with them through their career. And secondly, we also have institutional partnerships where we work together with university institutes, governments, but also with funding agencies actually to bring together people that have an interest in the water sector and bring it forward. So those are the three main pillars that we bring under the umbrella of capacity development for the water sector, mainly in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Then what we like about it is that we try to train people on technical levels. So often people come here with a technical problem. So we like to learn them how to solve that. This is a bit special because we're not necessarily looking at big, say, technical solutions, but we're also looking how can you apply technical solutions in a situation, for example, in a refugee camp or in a situation where you don't have a centralized system in Africa or in a situation where you can't disperse, say, investments in an easy way to improve your setup. But you have to do that in an innovative way and enable people to really, say, implement the solutions that we think are needed to bring the quality of life actually to a higher level because that's what it is. What we also try to do is we try to work with people in their lifelong career. So what we're trying to do is besides learning them, say, the different aspects of the water sector that are needed at the moment, we also look how we can create the new leaders of the water sector in the world and that can be in different ways. We have quite some alumni that end up being minister of water resources somewhere in different countries in the globe, but we also have alumni that are a leader in a refugee camp and introduce new ways how you can improve life. So it's on different levels. It's all about, say, being active and being, say, the leader that shows how and where to go. Last part that I wanted to say is that is a little bit about yourself and us as an institute here. Like I said, we have a lifelong learning program with our alumni. So we have more than 15,000 alumni over the whole world and we keep close contact with them. So that's a strong network that you have really on the water sector. Rotary is another very strong network and I think bringing those two networks together is something that we would like to see how we can work that out. And that's one of the objectives also of this afternoon. So I hope that the speakers that will come up and the sessions that we have planned for you later today will help to get a better idea on what's possible here at IG, but also what has also already been done in this collaboration between Rotary and Einstein. So I wish you all a very pleasant afternoon and the last thing I wanted to say is please notice that this being videotape and that has to do with the fact that what we try to do is we often try to engage other people that can't be here so we will also video stream actually the plenary session or not the breakout session but still good for you to know if you wanted to make a remark broadcast then please keep that one for the coffee break. So thank you all and have a good afternoon. Thanks Ali for the welcome. Could I invite the incoming director of Rotary International Jan-Lukas Kett to welcome the guest on behalf of Rotary. Thank you. Thank you Professor Mors for your kind words of welcome and your hospitality to host and in your beautiful institute. I will come back to it at the end of my speech where I will have some words about Rotary. Dear Rotary friends dear friends of Rotary in the mid 90s one of my club numbers the Argo Economist Evmenjev drew our attention to water as a growing global issue. My Rotary club is Permanent and most of you know that the city of Permanent less than 20km to them is the centre of a beautiful area of colds and wetlands and characteristic towns and villages this area is called Parterland Water is a serious issue there for already a thousand years our concern is to keep our feet dry and the wooden poles over our housing wet and to prevent our children from drowning we have been blessed with a 500 year old water authority at all came that shop for the outvalued and destroyed of on Permanent and best resort and we have certainly the minus drinking water in the world just from the tap Argo Economist made us realise that elsewhere in more and more regions with ecological deterioration and thereafter food insecurity followed by demographical shifts that in these regions access to clean fresh water was an important and growing issue influencing peace and conflicts health education and local economies we discussed the matter in our club and with clubs in our area and district we found partners also outside of Rotary and together we do action with matching grants of the Rotary Foundation we organised drinking water projects in Indonesia on Javan Valley and also in Sweden now and later on we joined a well-working group around nearby Rotary Club Gour this group formed a long-standing relation based on fellowship and mutual understanding with Rotary Club Nakuuru and these open community courses in Kenya resulting in thousands and thousands of water tanks and also a stream of projects of sanitation, education microfinance and environmental sustainability Project 6T with 70 Rotary clubs and hundreds of individual sponsors our club succeeded to create a sort of project on a different level except of abstraction at this moment my club sponsored IHE students together with Rotary Club and with the help of our German partner club Erfurt Krenel Brüken and Rotary Club Puna in India to this day foundation she has supported our scholarship generously and so did the Rotary Foundation and Rotant all these projects we funded in great fellowship we organised portions and food festivals selling biking to Israelis golf tournaments and a yearly educational sponsor walk with school children a project we successfully exported to our partners in Erfurt sure these 20 years we did much more in our club but only our track record in water projects already made me proud from terrorism it feeds my enthusiasm and organization and it makes it easy for me to explain what Rotary is how Rotary works and what Rotarians do we Rotarians are 1.2 million leaders and professionals in our communities we voluntarily share our passion time, knowledge expertise and network to give chances to those who didn't have the opportunities we had we provide each other in our communities but also beyond we have a frequency in our clubs where we work together in fellowship and in as much vocational diversity as possible men and women without limitations for selling gender colour, religion ideology, national origin, or sexual orientation our vision together we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change across the globe in our communities and in ourselves let me now come back to the welcome of Professor Eddie Ward I consider the partnership of Rotary with IEJ Delft the partnership of Rotary with IEJ and as such clubs and districts offered to Rotary International actually I consider it the most important I am moving forward to be involved of districts in this partnership to guarantee a constant stream of Rotary IEJ allowing me to the world I promise you to promote this as such during my years in the world of Rotary International today and here in IEJ Delft and in Rotterdam I welcome you all to communicate to make connections to share ideas and to take action I wish you all a pleasant informative and fruitful sector Thanks Eonico for those inspiring words and I would like to introduce the second Rotary leader to welcome you when you may wonder why as a second one I can summarize in very simple words to talk about money and our great scary, the Rotary Foundation has been very supportive and so has funded all the students that we have here so in that context I would like to involve Rotary Foundation trustee Per Hoijen to the stage and say a few words of welcome on behalf of the Foundation Thank you very much Dear writer Eddie Morse Director Rektian Lukas Dear fellow Rotarians and guests Let me start by saying how pleased I am to be here in Delft today at this wonderful institute The end our drive to here yesterday was with three exciting Rotarians in the car It was clear to me that we all was looking very much forward to be with you and not least to be at the IEJ Delft Institute Now we are here and happy to be with you all As a trustee of the Rotary Foundation I heard about the IEJ Institute for Water Education many times before I knew about the special partnership between the Rotary Foundation and IEJ But this partnership started long before I became a trustee so I had never actively been here to visit the institute Therefore, I am not just here to represent the Rotary Foundation but I also came here to learn and listen to what others have to say But one thing I know already is that I am in the company of people who have one thing in common we all feel very strongly about water and we are not alone many Rotarians worldwide are saying our members have been very active in this field for many decades So it was not a surprise that water and sanitation became one of the Rotary Foundation's official areas of focus in 2010 when we modernized our grant model This was also the time when we started the partnership with IEJ So how active are we in the field of the Rotary Foundation? Well, there are a few numbers In the past three Rotary years Rotary clubs worldwide implemented more than a thousand large sustainable water and sanitation projects in 83 countries with a total investment of more than 70 million US dollars And these numbers only include our so-called global grant projects with thousands of smaller projects which Rotary clubs carry out on their own over the help of smaller disciplines So let there be no doubt Rotary really feels strongly about water and sanitation And here's another fact about the Rotary Foundation We have a very long tradition of providing graduate scholarships and in its hundred years history our foundation has provided more than 38,000 scholarships to students from more than 100 countries and always with the active involvement of Rotary clubs Maybe some of you remember our Ambassador Scholarship Program which for many years was the world's largest privately funded international scholarship program So there we have it A strong commitment to water and sanitation and a long tradition of providing scholarships I don't think that a lot is behind the partnership between Rotary and IAC needs to be explained any further Last but not least let me take this opportunity to thank you, Racto Eddi and everyone else involved for hosting this Rotary event at UACJU And thank you dear fellow Rotarians and guests for coming to Delft Some of you from far away for this workshop I myself look very much forward to an interesting and informative afternoon Thank you for listening Thank you for those inspiring words The next thing on the program is a video that explains a bit of the history and the achievement of the partnership and I rely on someone else to start it up in the back Thanks Laura Ladies and gentlemen Good afternoon fellow Rotarians Good afternoon You are the best of students that is here right now I don't think I need to say a lot about the partnership and what has happened The video did explain it But I would like to start off by saying that we are sitting in this room here with a common purpose in a shared goal We are here with a common purpose and a shared goal and it is to secure the sustainability of this partnership both in terms of the funding that we can fund future students both in terms of the impact that we are going to make with this program on the ground with Rotary Wash Projects and all of you are there in different roles and can play a role in this and I would like to share a few thoughts in your later on presentation on how this could help us see So first of all a summary of what you saw in the video So IHE I would only say a lot of words but it is the largest postgraduate Institute of Water Education Many alumni we are proud of our 77 that we have but you see there are more than 18,000 alumni trained so it is a big institute a big player in this game that we want to make an impact on and therefore this collaboration is a natural fit it started in 2011 there are three areas where we collaborated the scholarship program you have seen in the video and you have seen an example of a couple of alumni speaking there we also had a dedicated workshop here twice at IHE around the IOC, the Central Asia Workshops this was about water diplomacy and water governance issues that is actually going to be followed up with the third lack of cooperation that we have with IHE and that is a program that not just IAC is involved but also the University of Costa Rica University of Peace IHE and University of Oregon and that is about water governance and diplomacy you will hear much more of it today On the regular scholarship program you can see on the map here where our students have come from indeed quite a few from Africa and Latin America and also a couple of Asians students over here in a couple of weeks we see the next batch coming in of 12 students they have been selected recently and if you look at it we heard there are 16 million of investment in scholarships but 2.8 of them has gone to this particular scholarship program at IHE so a very significant investment of the Rotary Foundation to date but what do we get for it and of course in terms of academic impacts we can already measure it because we had 5 batches of students that graduated and the important bit to look at is the green bit so the top bit on the graph on the top right these are the students that graduated with distinction I don't want to say anything negative about IHE you can imagine but this is well above average of the average IHE student so Rotary is in a position to select the top part the top quality students they get also the guidance and support while they're here in the Netherlands and they have the Rotary Network in the country when they go back to it and all of these factors together makes a very strong partnership to develop the conferences that we need in our water projects a few words on the water and peace project I mentioned it a few seconds ago but that's indeed a joint program between three universities the objective is to provide critical analysis skills that is nicely worded water security within the broader context of peace and stability nice words but this program really puts there the nuts and bolts in place for that so far we had two students of an American student a German student this year we will see actually I have started right now in Costa Rica we will seven students from the area that we had the two workshops in Central Asia around the ROC you will see them later in the year coming here in depth and you can see on the bottom the countries they are coming from then you saw in the video an example of Bolivia was mentioned, the requisition projects that was actually a project started up by three alumni two from Bolivia, Afnan and Marielle you saw Marielle in the video and Scott Taggages also in the video from Canada and they took the initiative to start up a project in the rural area West Bolivia, they got the Rotary Club of La Paz Sofocacci interested and together with Dutch clubs, German clubs and Canadian districts and clubs we got a global grant sort of to actually fund the implementation of this of course the presentation will be shared afterwards with you, if you click on the QR code at home you will get more information on the project there is more to be found on the program, we have a Facebook page that is currently being followed by four and a half thousand followers many Rotarians but also many people outside the Rotary so it is a very powerful way to promote the good work that we are doing in this field and also to attract others to be in support of this program then there is a Rotary blog a blog, whatever you pronounce it where some of the stories of the individual students are being published, also worse looking in now this is still a little bit looking back what have we achieved and so on but of course how can you become involved and if you look at the local level or the district level of course you can be involved in the funding side of it and we will have some more discussion around it in the interactive workshops but you also need to apply in particular for the Dutch Rotarians who live in the neighborhood of Delft or say this district become a host country because part of the success of the program was that every student had an individual Rotarian who took care of the student and sorted some of the issues and some of the issues were fairly mundane but we also got to the stage of getting one out of a Brazilian jail so it is quite fair to give what the role of a host country can be I'm coordinating that on this end and I'm often asked what does it mean to be a host country and I quite honestly have to say it is exciting but you don't know what I can't give you a firm answer Importantly on the funding each student the total cost of an 18 months program is 50,000 that includes accommodation, that includes travel here, all the education fees all in cost of a student in the Netherlands The students you saw on the roadmap they were funded by a package grant and in that system the Rotary Foundation fully funded it with 8 million that you saw was fully funded by the Rotary Foundation with a couple of global grants on top but the majority was coming from the package grant however that package grant was stopped in 2014 but the Rotary Foundation the trustees of the Rotary Foundation considered this program so successful that they have granted twice an extension of two years so in total we've been running on a package grant type funding model for seven years the last extension there was also a significant contribution from all seven Dutch Rotary clubs here so the program gets structured but we still at the beginning stage discuss how do we make it really sustainable and that's what's today about and that's why we need to have these discussions and of course global grants can have many funding sources it could be local clubs, it could be districts with a district designated fund it could be private donations or it could be external parties that support us and I think we need to explore all of those options in order to come to a sustainable setup I think that's my key message and I would like to land with you and of course I'm available in the rest of the day for further clarification or anything and so are some of the other Dutch Rotarians who are here and who are heavily involved particularly in Oerpenbos Hendricks they know everything about it as well so please fire some questions to them as well but on dot-notes I think I would like to conclude my talk and I would actually like to go in a bit more depth in terms of the technical issues and the content of what IHC delivered and for the first bit I would like to invite Professor Damier Bajanovis Perfect, that's a good to hear and he will elaborate on what IHC does in terms of water and sanitation Damier, the floor is yours Thank you very much Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen it's my pleasure to be here and honored to share some news from the area of WOSCH so water supply and sanitation at UNESCO IG in the last decade we have witnessed a major developments in a positive way in this field and I would like to use first five minutes of my presentation a little bit about self-marketing and basically updates of these developments and then next ten minutes will be about some ideas that we have how can we make you more involved even more involved in our activities and not only during the time that our students spent here at IGDEL but also with our partners so in their more professional or academic careers after they get degrees here so what have been new here at this institute now I can share the news that we paid lots of attention in developing top class materials some textbooks and other books in this area some of our books are the best sellers at the global level downloaded more than 50,000 times from different media and many of them are used in sanitation programs in different universities globally we were also translating these books into many languages Spanish Hindi Tamil Korean Chinese Arabic, French and so on we have been very active in developing major number of online courses so to reach more people that they can reach in the face to face education only next year we will develop a batch of 12 new online courses and by that we will have a program of about 20 online courses available for our students and also not only students but also other professionals we develop professional diploma program in the meantime and we have at the moment three programs related to WASH one is water supply engineering specialization one is sanitary engineering specialization and I'm proud to announce a new program on non-sealed sanitation which is supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation we are expanding our labs very dramatically some of you will see the labs in the afternoon we have an experimental lab and we are building at this moment a fecal sludge and septic sludge lab for experimentation and analysis of these materials this is the only lab on the northern hemisphere of this type and only one of the six labs in the world of that type we are expanding dramatically our partnerships with the different universities at this moment we are planning to transfer our programs from Delft and to reach more students globally we are planning to transfer our sanitation program to 30 universities in the world and that will form something that we call global sanitation graduate school next to that we also established last year something called global sanitation learning alliance where we put all educational materials from us and from our partners which are open access so that all all sanitation experts in the world can access these materials free of charge we are happy to announce that a couple of years ago we were a focal point of establishment of the new journal that's the only journal specifically made for publications from developing countries that's called Journal of Water Hygiene and Sanitation for Development and we are really trying to become a focal point the leader, the global leader in sanitation in the world innovation is in the center of our interest so it's not only education but also research because each MSc thesis has a research part and we are proud that we also collected for our 60th anniversary 60 innovations of UNESCO IG and you will see that most of these innovations are not technological only but also social and educational of educational nature so this was a bit the first part an update and with that I would like to discuss with you or at least put some ideas in front how can we work better together I'm quite impressed with what I've heard so far and I thank you for all your contributions so far you are very active in getting these scholarships and supporting our students during the program and that's really a fantastic example where I would like to see a bit more involvement and improvement is that we together define their thesis, their research work that they will do here most of their thesis work is done abroad so we would like really that at early stage we define this thesis at the beginning as a part of your project probably and that we do it at early stage so that we can prepare very well for that research period that we can do it together and help students together with our partners and then also fall up after the thesis period is finished and maybe that's only part of the project that we can cover in the scholarship but then maybe the second part of the involvement will be continuation of the work on the same project using the results obtained from the scholarship period so there I think there is a space for improvement and we can do that some other ideas but when you see that we have now 77 students and the ambition is to double it at least in the coming future we would like to manage the students, the community better, we would like to keep them better together that they have a common interest and we have already done it with some part of our alumni community especially in the Washington education sector and we would like to replicate these ideas so maybe some kind of website can be developed and can be attached to the rotary website and in that website we could show all our students we could present their interest, results of their work so all their thesis can be presented there, small videos and so on and so on and if you need for example someone to help you in project in some country you can go to that website this kind of HR website resource website where you can get information and directly contact the students without going through IG system so I wanted to not only to talk but also to show you some advances there and I prepared with my team a small demo of a possibility that can facilitate this concept so I think most of you recognize the right side the picture that's from your website, from rotary website the scholarship side this global sanitation learning alliance that is a framework that we already have and that framework is umbrella which unites all educational institutes related to sanitation who are ready to share their programs and their materials for example this website could look like this I hope it works here as well and I moved to alumni community and we could have here our alumni community we put some of the students here so here are our students so it's a little bit slow website maybe because it's a demo and then here you see some of our students so you can have a search engine here where you can I'm still missing some parts of that but you can select if you want the expertise with the research design, teaching and so on the website will automatically look for people with these skills and will I'm sorry this browser is not working very well here as on my laptop and then basically you will get to certain selection of students with certain skills and if you would click I think this is one of our students yes Maria then you will get the basic information about that student you will get the CV in some form contact details the way how the student entered into that website and student can write a small story about Kerr or his work and you can read about that story now this is just the real example and at the end you find small quotes and other details and details of other stories and so on in the project that was funded by Gates Foundation we have this already in place for more than 500 students and it works very well so I would like to take that platform and maybe to expand it on the rotary level then what is important is the valorization of our efforts so to see what really happened with the money and with the all knowledge that we put into these people and with the knowledge that they accumulated and how they use this knowledge after they leave IG so we can have a valorization program which can also have some fund there to support small startup projects and their ideas after they leave IG to implement in the real world and they can always report that back to us and we can put it in small stories, small videos put it on this website and share it with all our community and also people outside of the rotary we can also think more about how can we disseminate the strategy of rotary in area of WOSH and how can we use our students we can also design some side activities of students while they are in Delft which are more related to entrepreneurship side here they have learned lots about theory and the practice but how they can turn it into business that's not so much covered in our program so I would like to have maybe the idea that they have some courses next to the regular courses to develop entrepreneurship skills and to have that kind of package so when they go back they can you know be much more efficient in building up their own companies and making their own money and being their own boss I think like that they have even higher possibilities to develop their own ideas and to implement their own ideas without being maybe in certain frameworks that might not develop their ideas from the beginning so to be more free in their achievements and the last part that we could really look at is the innovation part innovation part is extremely important it's not only the theoretical knowledge that students have here but it's mostly also practical knowledge and this practical knowledge is really important for sustainability so that they can really continue working on their ideas that they have developed here that all these good outputs that they get from the thesis are not lost and just left on the table or on a small local project but also taken on into the future life to go into patenting maybe making a more impact with the results of this program so I would also propose to have a kind of rotary wash incubator something like that is happening here at Teu-Delft that is incubator called Yes-Delft in which young researchers have a chance to develop their ideas with subsidies from the Dutch government we could also maybe think in that direction to support in order to try a side of our of our work so that it's not a only practical work but also a more more sustainable work which can generate some income for people who develop that but also to have more impact on the ground just for inspiration we are running a large program financed by Gates Foundation in total around 25 million dollars and we prepared this kind of dissemination material that Bill Gates himself had the opportunity to read where we summarized where the money has been spent so something like that or similar things we can also do with the rotary foundation and do such a application which will raise the image of an even further image of our efforts and have some more structure output that can be shared globally so I have here quite some feed for the thoughts for our workshop and this is the point where I would start my question is to you what next that is the the point that what next and how far our ambition go that's my question for the workshop to think about thank you I'm quite hiding I don't think there can be any doubts with any of you that the two sessions that Bamiya is going to leave with a couple of our students after the planning sessions will be boring I don't think it will be totally opposite I must say we had some discussion earlier on on the alumni network and tried to set and build kind of a knowledge management base I'm really excited about it because I see it as the next logical step on the maturity journey that we're on with this partnership we started by improving the way we selected our students we started by improving getting the rotary connection better and now we need to continue improving that making real impact by making connectivity with alumni with a rotary project so I think it's a natural logical step and it deserves some considerable thought in my view so with that I would like to move to the next speaker and I would like to invite Zaki Shuba who is leading the Water and Diplomacy so Water and Diplomacy and she will address the other lack of our cooperation thank you thank you very much for the introduction good afternoon my name is Zaki Shuba I realise now that I forgot to put my title I'm a lecturer in law and water diplomacy so I'm actually a lawyer by training and I now focus on water legislation and conflict resolution as well I'm very pleased to be here I have to say because my involvement with rotary dates from the time I started at IHG the first week I was here the then president of rotary international IHG and I was asked to come in and sit and talk about the peace element of water and peace and so ever since I have conducted a number of activities that Henkjav has very kindly already mentioned and so I'm very pleased to see so many of you here to hear about the work that IHG is doing both in sanitation but also in water and peace so I call this a presentation of water and peace we don't actually talk about water and peace ourselves but I know that peace is important for rotary and I went to your website to have a look at what you say about peace and I thought that the words here and particularly the end of the paragraph are very telling and clearly connect efforts to maintain peace to prevent conflict and water being of course a natural resource and I particularly liked I have to say this wage increase I like that a lot and so I think I'll be adopting it as well as some of my mottos so I'm going to talk a little bit about what is the pharmacy water governance as well it's a difficult task I have to say because we can't really demonstrate what it looks like it's quite intangible but hopefully I can give you a flavour of what we're doing but before I do that I want to give you a bit of background and maybe talk about some of the current challenges and future challenges also in the water sector and to do that to start off I was online and I picked a few titles and headings that perhaps you've also come across in the past years and months as well and I think what's interesting here is that what we see with all these quite alarmist in some cases headings is that we've taken water for granted for a long time but we have come to an age where that's no longer possible we've really experienced and I say this I've been to a number of countries this year and I've heard the same story which is we are shifting from a world of water abundance or a water rich world to a world where water is becoming scarcer and scarcer and so in that sense we really need to think about how we're managing the resource and make sure that we do that carefully so that we really make sure that the human or animal and the environment have sufficient water for their survival and so these are the kinds of headings you can see in the news at the moment I do want to say also that it's something that we're experiencing throughout the planet so you'll see that I've taken examples from Sweden, the drought there that's had an impact also on farming there's been a drought here there's been a drought throughout Europe there were disputes in the United Kingdom between farmers and the government so I really want to show that when we think about water disputes and water scarcity it's not just maybe in some parts of the world where we think there are hotspots and people are fighting over water but it's really happening everywhere and so I think the efforts that we're putting into education here at IT are really for everyone in the world and so what I've shown here is what the press has picked up on and here I have another example from the World Human Rights Forum for the past four years it's picked water crises as one of the top risks for the next five to ten years so there really is a general perception that water is an issue that needs to be brought to the forefront I haven't included the evictus of the Security Council water scarcity and conflicts around water are also a topic that's being discussed at the highest level of international organizations so slowly we see an acknowledgement by the international community of the importance of water and the importance of managing the water because although in some cases the scarcity is a volumetric scarcity there isn't actually enough water for everyone it's not always just about the volume of water it's often about how the water is being distributed to different users now I want to talk a little bit about why we're facing these challenges so I think some of the headings will have given you a pointer or some indication of what the causes are but perhaps you also have some ideas as to why suddenly water seems to be the scarce resource so I'm opening the floor to you a few more people living on this planet that's one of the reasons it's often cited anything else? global warming climate change conflicts so general conflicts putting more pressure water becomes suddenly an issue when there is a conflict and bringing water to to populations affected by conflict we're getting richer we're getting richer we're getting richer economic development and you know what in like that has we need more we need more food but we need more meat and use bottles of water where we have good safe water yes we use bottled water instead of drinking water from the top I was actually in Sweden recently and in a restaurant they charge us without water so yes climate change population growth economic development is certainly some of the reasons why there's more pressure on water and I have to say the pressure is not just on water it's on land resources as well but certainly these are driving the need for more water and there are two sectors I haven't mentioned this on my slide but there are two sectors that are particularly affected by that one is agriculture and the other one is no industrial development but what does industrial development require? cooling water, energy cooling water, energy so energy and water are part of the nexus, the water food energy nexus and the increasing pressure on water is putting pressure affecting both the agricultural and energy sector so the impact is we have increased pressure on the resource and that increased pressure means there's increased competition over the resource and of course increased competition means that there's potential for conflict so we call it a gloom and gloom story there is a hope and I want to say that probably since the dawn of civilization we have put in place rules and regulations to prevent or to mitigate conflict and I'm going to focus on two tools diplomacy and governance here because those are the topics that we cover here at IOT and so so I'm going to start with diplomacy and maybe some of you have heard about water diplomacy or hydro diplomacy it's a theme that's become quite popular in the past decade, it's something that I have to say a little bit of a buzzword but it's attracting a lot of attention and the reason for that is there are approximately 310 international water courses and approximately 600 transboundary aquifers so we have both surface water and ground water that crosses borders and is shared by more than one by two or more countries and of course when you have political borders between countries it means that you have to engage in certain processes in order to interact and engage with other countries and so that's where diplomacy has a role to play in water diplomacy and it's very much about the tools that are being applied and the actions that are being taken at different levels and within different tracks, diplomacy tracks involved in different actors in order to try and prevent or resolve conflicts or facilitate cooperation over shared water resources between states and it's both bringing states to talk about water and how to manage jointly the water that they share but it's also about using diplomacy in water to try and foster a broader cooperation between states as well so it's two sides of the same coin but of course in the first instance the focus is on water and just to give you a few examples of transboundary hotspots I'm sure many of you have heard about the ground renaissance dam that's being built in Ethiopia on the border between Ethiopia and Sudan on the eastern island the impact that's having on the relation between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia things are moving in the right direction now I think there's been a continued dialogue between those three countries and some of the major obstacles have been overcome but there isn't yet an agreement as to how the dam is going to be filled and the impact that will have on both Sudan and Egypt but these are the kinds of problems that we see happening that we hear about there are many more transboundary water courses not all of them receive the same attention but all of them require joint management by states and so the support of water diplomacy to help to facilitate the dialogues in order to try and reach an agreement that then solidifies the way in which the states will be dealing with the water resource governance and I have to say here I belong to the water governance chair group I'm very happy that governance is also playing a role here it has there are many definitions I picked one from the global water partnership it's not the only one there are many others but it's really water governance is important because it's about the gains of the rules so basically who's deciding who gets how much water when, how or why or why not and so that's a really important element of how water is being distributed to the different water users who's getting priority is priority going to drinking water to cities that need drinking water or is it going to farmers that need the water for agricultural purposes and what are the bases for those decisions whether they're making these policies what interests do they represent what interests are not represented around the the decision making table and so forth and so it's I said earlier when I started that this is an intangible aspect of water resources management so it's actually very difficult to quantify or to show if we're thinking about diplomacy how many disputes you've avoided because you simply can't quantify that because of the dispute hasn't happened and you don't count it as a dispute but it's really all these invisible threads that have an impact ultimately on the on the availability of water for different users so so these really are the challenges and perhaps those are also challenges that you've been facing in the projects that you've been involved in and I hope that in the workshops we'll have an opportunity to hear about your experience of governance issues so the rules the regulation around the way in which new infrastructure is being brought somewhere and ensuring also that governance is linked to sustainability also making sure that once a project is there that there is an agreement, a framework not the project to continue and so as I said it's intangible and it's difficult to demonstrate the impact of governance on the ground but it remains I think very important and that's why it's one of the disciplines that is here that I achieved I'm sure you all agree with me that water resources management requires many disciplines it's really a multidisciplinary sector and governance social sciences and governance are a key element so we have the technical know-how but we also have that non-technical soft or fuzzy as some people say fuzzy element of water resources management which is really important and here we look at governance also from an academic perspective so looking at processes from a critical perspective understanding them pointing out the gaps trying to see where power lies because governance is also very much about identifying power and the power asymmetries between the different users meaning that some users may get less water because they are less powerful for different reasons than others and so in the work that I do and that my colleagues do these processes to try and understand them but in the work that I do we also give our students tools and skills and competences to address conflicts and to engage from an interpersonal perspective also when a conflict is about to arise and so I'll talk to you in a minute about the different courses that we have but some of the key courses in conflict management and in governance are also about the critical thinking and about the practical engagements as well so what do we do in terms of diplomacy and governance at IHE in terms of education and our master programs we have a master program in water governance and management and that's a general program within which the students can choose to do water conflict management modules so two three-week courses that focus on conflict management from a theoretical and from a practical perspective and together with that they also study water governance water law and other topics that are useful to understand the processes I was talking about and Henke already mentioned a joint program it's called water calibration and diplomacy and we run it with University for Peace in Costa Rica and with Oregon State University in the United States we have a long-standing relationship with OSU and we got to know the University for Peace and appreciate the work that they do when training their students in broad conflict and peace studies and so we thought that bringing the expertise of U-Peace our expertise in water and conflict management and the expertise of Oregon State University in conflict management as well bringing all of that under one umbrella was a very powerful way of training the next generation of water leaders of water professionals that know how to deal with conflicts or know how to think about preventing or mitigating potential conflicts and as has been said already we're very privileged and grateful to Rotary for the support that our students have received to participate in this course I don't have the exact figure of the cost of the course but it's a bit more than staying in Delft for 18 months the course is actually 17 months and the students start in Costa Rica then come to OSU and then go to the United States it's a 17 month program but we know that it's a unique program no one else offers anything like that and we're very proud of it and we have Rotary scholars on the program of course we also do research and so our students focus their thesis on topics that are related to governance or conflicts as well and I think perhaps that's also an area where there might be some opportunities for us to work with Rotary clubs and have research projects also I'm not going to mention all the governance projects because there are many I'm just focusing on the ones that are more related towards the diplomacy area we're one of our colleagues who is leading a very interesting project on the role of media and science and communication in water diplomacy focusing first on Eastern now but then scaling it up to other basins so that's something where we are also developing more activities I have to say that until fairly recently it was relatively limited because I was the main water diplomacy person but our group has grown significantly over the past year and so now we are developing a broader strategy for water cooperation and diplomacy at the institute and one of our key activities also because there is a need to train water professionals who are already doing the work and need a few extra tools expertise, some skills to do their work better so we do a lot of institutional strengthening or capacity building I'm not sure that's the right time but anyway it's training for professionals and here again one of the ways in which I have been involved with Rotary is preparing and conducting two workshops on preventive diplomacy for trans boundary water management which focuses on Central Asia which were both done with the support of Rotary with participants from Central Asia who came for a two week workshop and a one week workshop here to learn about trans boundary water management not in their region but generally and to get some competences and learn some skills and not just focus on learning those skills but on getting to know each other and working with professionals from other countries and the idea is that we wanted to create a sort of informal network between these participants so that when they went back to their countries they would have an opportunity or they would know who to contact if they wanted to talk to someone in Tajikistan they would have a contact person because they had spent two weeks with Amir in Delft and the idea is that they were going to gradually rise to the ranks and I'm pleased to say that one of them has just become his country's ambassador to Austria so I'm very pleased to see that participants who benefited from a Rotary supported workshop are really going to bring that knowledge to the work they're doing and will have an impact so I was talking about the fact that it's intangible I want to say also that education takes a bit of time we're educating the younger generation now but I think it's very important to educate today the experts of tomorrow and so we're very pleased that we're doing these kind of activities including with the support of Rotary now to end and perhaps we'll do some food reports for our workshops in terms of opportunities for expanding joint activities I think the fellowships that have been provided and I should say here that the existing program that's been here since 2011 has supported also students who've done the water conflict management track in the water governments program that I mentioned earlier so Rotary has also been supporting students who don't necessarily engage with trans-boundary or international conflicts but also local conflicts and of course the fellowships for our water co-operation and diplomacy scholars is a great benefit I think it would be very interesting also perhaps to link some of the thesis of our students, our Rotary supported students to work that's being done in their home countries and you'll hear from one of them in a workshop that I'll be conducting she's from Nicaragua and we already know that her thesis work will focus on Nicaragua and work related to Rotary activities there and finally she has an enormous network of alumni and we want to strengthen our water and peace alumni network and also that network at the disposal of Rotary and have an exchange or make available our own water and peace water co-operation and diplomacy experts to the Rotary family as well and so that would be another way perhaps also of coming closer and making the expertise that we have here in-house and that we have developed through our students available to all of you. Now I'm going to stop here, I think I went over my 15 minutes but I'm happy to answer any additional questions that you may have during the workshops or if you'd like to send me an email I'm happy to respond to you as well. Thank you very much. Ok, thank you Saki and I think Saki took a couple of minutes longer but we anticipated on that we still have some minutes to actually read for some general questions before we pass on to the next part. And as I said we were taking this we have a mic in here it's not so hard so you can throw it to you I'm not sure if I managed the last row but maybe you can do it in two hops. You can just talk. I'm talking with accents. Ok, my name is Dilavir Janani I'm from Routery District 1620 from Belgium I've been working on water projects all over the world for the last 15 years and I'm sure we've saved a lot of lives but one meets to understand that one saves the life one becomes a factor responsible for that life. Now, the thing is that I think in all these discussions and I'm not just talking about SDG 6 but all of the SDGs we seem to be missing a very important point in 1798 the start of the industrial revolution we have a little less than 1 billion people on this planet today we are crossing 7 billion we know that this planet can take 20 billion but that's it and that's if we all learn to do the insects and the birds we have made enormous strides in providing water and improving the life standards of millions of people all over the world but we know today that in 2030 we are going to be faced with 700 million water refugees are we going to have any water available or peace neither of them seems to be very achievable or attainable why is there not more emphasis put nowhere in the 17 SDGs is there any emphasis put on birth control on population control I would think that if one was faced with such an enormous proportion that one would focus first of all on limiting or continuing the problem and there is no emphasis given on that what server that's my question it's a great question with more statements but the statement is appreciated and I think that it was called out from one of the first statements that the increased population is one of the major concerns how and what to do about it I think it's a little bit out of the scope at least of IT Delft so I apologize for that part I think it's an important issue to take into account and I think that's the same thing as climate change there are two things one is what they sometimes call adaptation the implication part is story related to any sector that's about reducing emissions and making sure that the concentrations is coming at the level that we think is sustainable the adaptation part is taking into account that even if you start having a program there now it will take some time before that will be an operation and you should adjust for that I think maybe with the similar approach I do think that our programs on trying to reduce the population increase I think if you look over the world there's also a difference actually science, different trends and what you see in Asia for a large part is actually that by assuring that there is an improved quality of life and even the urbanization trend is heading to that as well what we see now is that especially Africa is one of the continents where the population growth is effectively the highest so I think what we should try to also constitute besides of course in front of people about the impact it may have if you have the population intensity you should assure that there is an improvement in quality of life because that seems to be a very important driver in reducing population growth it's not that easy to answer statements like I said but there's something that people should have in the back of their minds and I think it's also good to discuss it but maybe this is not the right platform to do that so again appreciate it maybe try to focus on what site which is where we can contribute and you think that by improving the quality of life we can indirectly contribute to your statements can I close with that question I have a little short keep it closer to your mouth sorry my mic so I have a bit short question on the short term it's I think more important than the last subject in the challenges of the Meshur I missed the biggest one on the short term how can we keep this subject in the comments and the public see out of the hands of Donald Trump I can start we press the question again maybe we should stop having this but I suggest I like the statement a bit I suggest having it for a discussion because I think you can have a very nice discussion and we might be talking about it later on please Eddie yes the question of accessing your resources in the Londoner this is something we discussed with you and your predecessor because we recognise that there is a really talent up there which is going to go oh sorry I should have been to use my doubt Ron Denham, Joe Emeritus, the Washington Sanitation Rotary and Action Group we recognise the opportunity that you are linking up and I was wondering if your processes and procedures will make it easier for us to identify alumni and various countries who would be an additional resource for the Rotarians in that country working on water, sanitation or action I think there are two things one is that the Meshur is an example or I think how we can overcome some of the problems that we have seen of course we have to be a little bit careful with the privacy laws that are in place at the moment but I do think that what Damir was proposing so that's actually creating a sort of a professional group or community and then it becomes a bit easier to also share this information so I think it's possible and I think that Damir now made a sort of fast moka so it's not live yet but if we conclude together that that could be a way forward then we would appreciate to try and read it Yes, you wanted to say something? No, somebody else who wanted to say something else otherwise what I wanted to do is I just wanted to point out one thing is that the two topics are also a little bit on purpose in the sense that they are linked to one another as well often in a lot of processes when you start talking about diplomacy and it's about big and small problems of wazaki and it's also to stress as well it's also about coming up with new ideas and new innovations because we also do think that you need to look at the problems in a different way so that's also where the story and those innovations are not only on the technical level but also on the socio-economic level so it's also about how you can better say engage with one another understand one another strong so it's different on the social side but also maybe on the economic side where water and energy is often exchangeable and so can you create goods to be exchanged so there are a lot of different components but they are related to one another so that's the only thing I wanted to add and then before you go for coffee after the coffee break which takes until 4 o'clock so you have half an hour also to discuss a little bit we come back in two rooms and if correct on your badge under your name you will find the room where you expect it to go to and sorry room A2 and A3 and also that you can be assured then that you will get two sessions in the room itself because the presenters will change the room so that will make a slightly easier for you you don't have to move everybody and you can just stay here you will be sitting in the two sessions so with that I would like to thank the presenters actually of the beginning of the session and invite you for a tea or coffee so thank you very much