A packed room with 500 people cheering and clapping hands in front of the stage. Walls covered with photos of rock icons like Bowie, Rolling Stones and Joni Mitchell. Am I really at a conference on small scale water and sanitation? Yes – the conference organisers had the good taste of staging the VAK2019 conference … Continue reading “Water and Sanitation is Rock ‘n Roll!”
New water innovations are needed to secure freshwater supply for human use, even in the Nordics that are typically perceived as water secure nations. Cryo-desalination, also known as freeze-melt desalination or freeze-thaw desalination, allows to obtain fresh water by freezing seawater. Is that even possible, how energy efficient is it and why is it not … Continue reading “Cryo-desalination – A nature inspired solution to obtain freshwater”
Every year around this time we do the accounts. What have we done in the past year? We look back to discern things that happened which distinguishes this year from other years. We search for things that stand out as a deviation from routine. Maybe it has to do with modern Western view on life … Continue reading “Water is life. Water is circular. So life is … circular?”
I fjol fick jag tillfället att medverka som samtalsledare på MRF – en filmfestival för mänskliga rättigheter. Filmen ”There will be water” kopplade till det 6:e globala hållbarhetsmålet ”Säkerställa tillgång och hållbar vatten- och sanitetsförvaltning för alla”. Globalt sett har utvecklingen gått framåt och milleniemålet att halvera antalet utan tillgång till rent vatten uppnåddes i … Continue reading “En reflektion runt Mål 6 och över gränsöverskridande kommunikation; vatten, sanitet och mänskliga rättigheter.”
This was a summer to remember! Swedes are normally not spoilt with sunshine and we know how to complain about too much rain and too many mosquitoes. But this year most of us got more than we bargained for. July was extraordinarily hot and dry, it shows on satellite images. Major Tom agrees from his … Continue reading “Summer of ’18: a hot wormhole”
