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Registration open for the 4th Global WOPs Congress
Water and sanitation operators and their staff are key to resilient cities and communities. By working together, operators can help one another tackle the challenges they are facing.
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GWOPA is committed to inclusion. Discover here the work done to ensure gender, geographical and stakeholder involvement at the 4th Global WOPs Congress.
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Who can become a member of GWOPA?
While GWOPA’s main constituency is public water and sanitation utilities, many other types of organizations committed to increasing sustainable access to water and sanitation are welcome. Members must adhere to GWOPA’s Principles which include sharing on a not for profit basis.
Find out how your organisation can join!
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Latest stories from WOPs around the world
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As a young girl, Faustina Boachie walked over 3 km in search of water. Now, she is Chief Manager of the Ghana Water Company's Low-Income Customer Support Unit, which provides direct access to water services for over 12,000 households, reaching over 750,000 people, with the support of their WOP partner from the Netherlands, and the World Bank. Read
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In a challenging 2020, not-for-profit partnerships between peer water and sanitation utilities proved to be crucial. Like the WOPs from the WaterWorX Programme, a partnership of public water operators to increase access to sustainable water services for 10M people by 2030: 48 investment proposals, over 100 capacity building events, and much more
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Residents from low-income areas in Nakuru, Kenya contribute to urban planning and ‘Sponge Town’ goals in the framework of a project jointly implemented by WOP partners NAWASSCO and VEI, MetaMeta Research, and County Government of Nakuru, showing the potential of collaboration between service providers, government, communities and the private sector. Read
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Latest news of the Global WOPs Alliance
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+20 WOPs selected to be funded under the EU-WOP Programme
More than 140 projects were submitted to the Call for Proposals of the Programme funded by the European Union and managed by UN-Habitat's GWOPA. After thorough expert evaluation, over 20 WOP Projects have been selected to be funded under the EU-WOP Programme. Find out more here
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WOPs in the Water Action Decade to achieve SDG6
GWOPA/UN-Habitat joined the ministerial panel at the High-Level Conference on SDG6 in the city of Bonn, Germany to present how operator partnerships boost capacity development around the world as part of the preparatory process for the Mid-term Review of the UN Water Action Decade in 2023. More
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UN-Habitat, WOP-LAC and IDB organize webinars on Urban Wastewater
From March to June 2021, UN-Habitat in partnership with the WOPs Network of Latin America and the Caribbean (WOP-LAC), the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA), the Caribbean Water and Sewerage Association (CAWASA), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) co-organized a Webinar Series on “Setting the Agenda for Wastewater Treatment and Monitoring in the Context of SDGs: Urban Wastewater 2030”. Water and sanitation operators from Latin America and the Caribbean shared their experiences and approaches to wastewater management and monitoring addressing technical, financial and governance aspects.
Join the Global WOPs Alliance’s wastewater management community of practice here to access the outcome notes, knowledge highlights and resources shared during the webinars in an extensive Knowledge Library, exchange knowledge and foster discussions beyond the webinar series.
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#UtilityClimateAction Report
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GWOPA/UN-Habitat and BMZ/GIZ jointly convened the Utility Climate Action event to showcase best practices and lessons on how flood, drought, heat and wildfires impact water and sanitation utilities and how they respond to these challenges. Read the #UtilityClimateAction report here. Use the hashtag #UtilityClimateAction to tell your adaptation story on social media, and we will share it with the GWOPA community.
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As part of GWOPA’s 2021 webinar series, this session will bring together experts in the urban sanitation and wastewater fields as well as water/wastewater utilities from different regions to hear about challenges, solutions and outlooks related to wastewater-based epidemiology. Register here
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Within the framework of the project "Promotion of Water Operator's Partnerships in Africa and Asia-Pacific", funded by The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), GWOPA together with the implementing partners, AfWA in Africa and WaterLinks in Asia, are organizing a workshop to present some of the Non-Revenue Water (NRW) techniques that are being applied by the beneficiary water utilities as well as some examples of Customer Service and Asset Management implemented through the WOPs. The workshop will take place online on 5 October 2021 and will be by invitation only.
Daring Cities 2021 will take place on 4-8 October! Designed to empower urban leaders to tackle the climate emergency, Daring Cities 2021 will build upon last year’s premier edition. Jointly developed by BMZ and ICLEI, the virtual gathering will be again a platform to stimulate and advance climate action in the framework of #UNBonn25. More
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Reading list
At this rate, billions will still lack safe water and sanitation at home by 2030. Achieving universal coverage will require a quadrupling of current rates. Good news is 107 million people worldwide gained access to safe drinking water, and 115 million to safe managed sanitation services, in 2020. Read the latest progress update from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP).
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GWOPA, IHE Delft Institute and VEI have been developing tools and guidance to support professionals in water utilities. These tools, co-developed and tested with water professionals involved in the daily operations of WOPs, address how to reduce and manage NRW, sustainability in utilities, or water quality monitoring, among others. Access the tools here
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In the next edition...
… listen to WOPcast, the podcast series to share, learn, inspire, and walk together towards the SDGs and the Human Right to Water and Sanitation
… discover GWOPA’s improvement on the global WOPs database
… join and know more about the online Communities of Practitioners for water and sanitation professionals
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