Streams of Activities
Science
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Nature
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Diplomacy
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Community Science
We work with community-based organization to establish water sensor networks in 1000 communities and train 1,000 citizen scientists, establish open source databases to disseminate water security (integrated water quantity and water quality) information in real time with a clear focus on vulnerable populations, and co-develop AI augmented, community-centric water security early warning early action systems that will harness mobile/web apps to catalyze anticipatory action at multiple governance levels (community, country, basin, global).
Nature-based Solutions
Portfolios of nature based solutions will be designed and implemented in consultation with community scientists, policy makers, social capital investors and international development agencies. Crowdsourcing apps and in-person focus groups with vulnerable populations will be implemented to gather an inclusive response from a broad range of stakeholders in each basin to identify feasible portfolio of NBS and facilitate fund-raising from
Environmental Diplomacy
We will hold thirty Track-2 (scientist-scientist) and Track-3 (citizen-citizen) environmental diplomacy workshops over five years: one per year for each of the six river basins. These workshops will identify context-sensitive, feasible policy and governance solutions to facilitate transboundary water cooperation among upstream and downstream riparian countries, provinces/states within countries and among representatives of multiple sectors (agriculture, mining, water resources, mining, energy, housing etc).
Our Vision
Water is everything. We work to share it.
Our mission is to strengthen and mobilize existing organizational networks that work locally, nationally and globally towards ‘equitable and reasonable’ sharing water resources across borders.
TWIN is committed to addressing not only water scarcity but also the degradation of water quality from anthropogenic sources, and the growing impacts of climate change.
TWIN promotes co-operation and collaboration among all network stakeholders who have transboundary water challenges.
TWIN’s vision is to promote water cooperation among countries, regions, municipalities and villages that share trans-boundary water resources in ways that are equitable and reasonable for all stakeholders.
TWIN works to improve border relations, water use practices, water quality, ecosystem services, and public health on both sides of the border and to build resilience to climate change.
TWIN’s activities are committed to conforming to the values of all international conventions and treaties on equitable sharing of resources and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #6 that addresses the access to clean water.
“Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”
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