Let's make sure Pacific and Asian water partners for development and climate have a strong voice at #COP26 in Glasgow! Let us have your #COP26waterstories so we can showcase them at the AWP @WaterPartnersAU event at the COP26 Water & Climate Pavilion!
Do you have a story about water and resilience in the Asia-Pacific? We would love to hear it. Share it with us by tagging #COP26waterstories and @WaterPartnersAU. We'll be sharing these water stories as a Twitter Moment and will showcase them during our session at #COP26.
Sometimes we put sustainable water resource management and water/sanitation/hygiene needs in separate silos. It's really important to see them as a continuum - as SDG6 does. We need to worry about where our water comes from as well as how we access and use it #SDG6#WASHWorks
We have 10 minutes left - any final thoughts on how #WASH can positively impact the SDGs? If you need to see all 6 questions again, refresh the @Devex feed now! #WASHworks
A6: So many choices! But I think: preference low-technology, nature-based solutions (which are easy to build and maintain) for wastewater treatment and purification for human and agricultural re-use, and for the environment #WASHWorks@WaterPartnersAU
A5: Sanitary and sterile environments for disease control and the production of medicines can’t be achieved without clean water. So in terms of prevention and cost-effectiveness, financing clean water is cheaper than funding medicines (3/3) #WASHWorks#COVID19@sanwatforall
A5: Vaccines are vital of course, but often take years to develop. COVID19 shows us that new diseases are on the rise. Clean water and good hygiene can readily prevent and contain disease, and should be cheap to provide (2/3) #WASHWorks
A5: Dirty water has always been a vector for disease transmission, and can be traced as a major cause of death by disease or toxicity form thousands of years (1/3) #WASHWorks@WaterPartnersAU
A4: ...but especially important connections are with SDG2 (Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture), SDG3 (Good Health and Wellbeing), SDG5 (Gender Equality), SDG11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities)... (2/3) #WASHWorks#SDG6
A3: ....and better educated women tend to have fewer children and better control over their destiny and those they care for! For more about Australian Water Partnership’s work on water for gender equality see: https://t.co/AfJxVgnlHS
(2/2) #WASHWorks#WaterPartnersAU
A3: Perhaps the most crucial question of all! Reliable water supply and sanitation services in schools keep more girls in education longer. Better educated women can more fully participate in the workforce and are better equipped to start and run new businesses (1/2) #WASHWorks
@mendy_in_wash @devex I agree! A focus on water is so useful because it immediately reveals linkages to other development efforts, but also reduces the focus to key needs in communities which we can understand and plan for.
A2: For more information about the Australian Water Partnership's involvement in World Water Week 2021, follow this link https://t.co/PocH5UzR1H (2/2) #WASHWorks#WaterPartnersAU