It has been almost fifty years since the global community met with the focus of putting water and everything that goes with it on the agenda at a United Nations conference. One month ago, the global community was gathered in New York to discuss, build, and direct steps to streamline water security processes in a world dealing with the results of a global pandemic while facing a climate emergency.
Dawn e Igor A Waterlution tem se desafiado globalmente a plantar sementes e germinar ideias frutíferas em todos os lugares que trabalhamos. No Brasil, os diálogos sobre o que poderia ser o primeiro Water Innovation Lab começaram em 2016 e foram se moldando até o acontecimento do primeiro programa no país, em novembro de 2017…
If you are starting your career- in any field this blog post is for you! If you’ve spent time with me, we’ve probably chatted about this topic before – the benefits of working in small, innovative, and creative non-profits early in your career. Over the last few months I’ve been transiting away from my role…
By SJ Rasheed As my time with Waterlution comes to an end, I wanted to write a final farewell and summarize all that I have learned and accomplished during this very transformative year, as well as share some photos of the many amazing places I had the privilege of visiting. So, let’s take it back…
I’ve never known whether to consider myself a millennial or a gen-z. The millennial cut-off is technically 1996, and while I was born in 1997, my peers didn’t grow up with smartphones, tablets, or the Metaverse. I still remember playing snake on my green Samsung Galaxy flip phone in high school and creating my Facebook…
By: SJ Rasheed Today concludes the 9th annual World Water Forum, hosted in Dakar Sengal. Sara Dia, a Wil Lebanon lead had the opportunity to attend this event. She was joined by 60 other members of the World Youth Parliament for Water, an International organization shedding light on how youth can be more involved in water…
By: Cynnoma Andrews Hello! My name is Cynnoma, I live in Whistler and I was honoured to join Megan and SJ on a day of connecting with locals in my community. I got to experience a day in their shoes, tagging along with them interviewing locals about their opinions on climate change effects in Whistler…
By Media and Communications Coordinator SJ Rasheed Translated from Portuguese Ajusta Água, an innovative women led water management organization is optimizing the world of water management and making bounds towards the universalization of accessible water in Brazil. Currently in Brazil, there are about 35 million people without access to safe water and about 100 million…
by Learning Lead – Elisabeth Huang One of the first things I learned to grow successfully when I was living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in an adorable little home but with little growing space was green onions. With little space to grow my little green friends, I filled my small green pot with some soil…
by Learning Lead – Fidel Pacay It has been a fun journey so far learning to operate the sewing machine that I chose to to do this project with. I am very impressed by the ingenuity and engineering that went into the design of the Singer 4452 Heavy Duty Machine. It’s practicality makes learning how to sew…