About Us
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Years of Waterlution
25 +
Innovations Incubated
10000 +
Youth Engaged Across Canada
0 %+
Female Identifying Participants
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WIL Countries (and counting!)
FOUNDED
2003
Waterlution- a federally registered Canadian non-profit – has successfully established itself as an internationally recognized water-focused organization offering distinctive capacity building, leadership and facilitation training to spark and mentor innovators and aspiring entrepreneurs in the water and climate change space. While engaging communities through place-based workshops and activities that together evolve our collective relationship to, understanding of, and innovative responses toward, solving complex water challenges, Waterlution intentionally works with underrepresented peoples, particularly women and Indigenous peoples.
AGENDA
2030
In 2020 Waterlution completed its Agenda 2030 Strategic Plan which responds to the governing question
“What does our water need?”
Capacity building, youth driven action, innovation, community engagement, global knowledge sharing and networking, participation and innovation-making of women, Indigenous peoples and other underrepresented peoples, and an urgency in change-making to help mitigate the impacts of climate change are the drivers for what the world needs now.
Mandate & Goals
Waterlution actively works to shift and shape our relationship with water through:
Transformative
immersive, inclusive and empowering water leadership and innovation training, mentorship, entrepreneurship and network development, for Canadian and global young professionals
Community
focused water knowledge sharing that honours traditional and Indigenous voices and diverse perspectives;
Global
networking & water-solution-making that unites individuals, communities, academia, industry, and governments in a shared purpose to mitigate climate change and ensure improved water security for all
Artistic
research and practice in socially engaged, participatory processes with an emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration, empowering artists within a critical discourse
ACTIONABLE CORE
1.
Equip youth and young professionals to create and lead the future of water security and climate change adaptation, particularly women, Indigenous, and other underrepresented peoples
2.
Facilitate and energize inclusive global water and climate change collaboration, solution-making and innovation
3.
Deepen local communities water appreciation and resilience in the face of climate change
4.
Enhance global water and climate change knowledge mobilization
5.
Engage artistic process as a water and climate change learning approach
6.
Support the global community to advance progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals related to water security, climate and equity
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Become a global “go-to” organization for innovative thinking, boundary-breaking youth solutions for water and climate change
