Please read this interesting article about South Africa's water challenges, and increased legislative attention in the country to the matter. www.citizen.co.za/news/south-a...

Strong piece on #water + #immigration from Georgetown's Dr. Marcus King: How Addressing Water Challenges Could Reshape Immigration The lines of causality are often tenuous, but the linkages are there... Please read / share / comment. sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/19/h...

2026 UN Water Conference – Global Online Stakeholder Consultation: Inputs to the Interactive Dialogues’ Concept Papers. Six extracts reflecting key messages per Interactive Dialogue are available now! blue-community.net/2...

This promises to be an interesting water event tomorrow at the African Union Summit.

"The commitment to harvest + store water is not simply about food + water security. It is a strategic, nation-shaping investment - it underpins economic independence, rural prosperity, + sustainable development." TY President Ruto for a strong State of the Nation address in #Kenya.

For those of you in the DC area, please come to my band's (Good Cook) next gig this coming Saturday, Nov. 1. I'll be on keys, percussion, vocals... Great seafood, scary Halloween-themed songs...

Having fun at the opening ceremony of the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference. Bajan hospitality is the best. I look forward to talking about water security with Members of Parliament from across the globe over the coming days.

A vital story about the importance of #NICU and #WASH in hospitals: A FATHER’S HELL. A DOCTOR’S LAMENT villagehealthpartnership.org/a-fathers-he... TY @susankbarnett.bsky.social

Inadequate #water, #sanitation, #hygiene (#WASH) infrastructure in rural healthcare facilities in #India, challenges effective infection control, contributing to the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections (#HAIs) and poor patient outcomes. bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

MCC board approves projects, terminates others at much-anticipated meeting www.devex.com/news/mcc-boa... TY @devex.com @advasal.bsky.social

It is great to see this Call To Action from the #AfricanUnion + #AfricaCDC regarding #cholera. I'm pleased to see the call for domestic resource mobilization, and for increased investments in #water, #sanitation, and #hygiene (#WASH) in cholera hotspots. africacdc.org/download/a-c...

The Government of #Korea contributed US$10 million to support primary #health care and #WASH services in #Ethiopia. TY Korea and @unicef.org www.unicef.org/ethiopia/pre...

Great to see #Zambia's #Parliament + civil society leaders working on #water + #sanitation. #WASH investments are imp't to avoid another #cholera outbreak. TY Hon. Twaambo Mutinta, and Bubala Muyovwe of the Zambia NGO WASH Forum @endwaterpoverty.bsky.social www.pressreader.com/zambia/daily...

St. Augustine: "Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow." The Catholic church has a huge role to play in healthcare: New Pope Brings Healthcare Hope thinkglobalhealth.org/article/new-... TY @susankbarnett.bsky.social

Become a Blue Community and take responsibility! The Swiss Blue Community VSA, the Association of Swiss Wastewater and Water Protection Specialists, promotes the Blue Community and the new website of the Blue Community Switzerland: blue-community.net/2...

The next water "Day Zero"? #Tehran #Iran. Could your city be next? There are myriad ways to get ahead of #urban #water insecurity... www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/c...

For those of you tracking progress toward the 11th World Water Forum (Saudi Arabia, 2027), the First Announcement is here: 11thworldwaterforum.org/Announcement Are your priorities and constituencies represented?

Some good news for WASH in the US House of Representatives Appropriations FY26 bill: WATER AND SANITATION: - not less than $451,000,000 shall be made available for water supply and sanitation projects ... of which not less than $225,500,000 shall be for programs in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Trump administration's decision to slash nearly all U.S. foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for some of the people they were designed to benefit, Reuters has found. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

TY @who.int @drtedros.who.int for strong remarks at High-Level #Cholera in #Africa meeting earlier this week. "Increased investments in #WASH are therefore needed urgently, from both national budgets and development funding." www.who.int/news-room/sp... #water #sanitation

Well worth a read - USAID, global health, water... otherwords.org/musks-deadli...

It is broadly agreed that the US foreign assistance infrastructure could be better organized. Were I in Congress I'd be saying "put USAID staff back to work and rescind the mass contract terminations and then let's have a good faith discussion about reform proposals."

Here is the latest chaos + disruption @noaa.gov. The DOGE theory of "move fast and break things" will unnecessarily cost lives and livelihoods. There is a right way to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse from USG. This is not that way, at either an individual or agency level. TY @dinahvp.bsky.social

Thank you for covering this under-reported story, Lauren. It's unfathomable to me that the Famine Early Warning System is still down. The "move fast and break things" approach threatens to kill millions, and to pose major security risks to the US and our allies. Secretary Rubio, you can fix this.

The status of #water, #sanitation, & #hygiene in 186 #Catholic healthcare facilities... [Teaser: not good, but there are paths forward.] TY IWA Publishing Lindsay Denny Naughton, MPH Stephen Hilton François Kangela iwaponline.com/washdev/arti...

Upcoming networking and co-working opportunities (with lunch!) at @ReservoirCenter in Washington DC - next one is for Rising #Water Professionals on March 13: www.reservoircenter.org/co-work-rese...

Upcoming networking and co-working opportunities (with lunch!) at @ReservoirCenter in Washington DC - next one is for Rising #Water Professionals on March 13: www.reservoircenter.org/co-work-rese...

The annual student-run University of Colorado Symposium on #Water, #Sanitation, and #Hygiene (WASH) will take place March 13-14. Hybrid. Please join / share. @smwerner.bsky.social @pattyhallh2o.bsky.social www.colorado.edu/washsymposium/

USAID, now NOAA, then _?_. What will remain of the USG by the time these indiscriminate actions run their course? TY to @dinahvp.bsky.social @usatoday.com for covering the situation at @noaa.gov. We are 3 months away from the start of hurricane season. www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

A great clapout at #USAID today. TY USAID for all of your efforts over the decades. This fight is not finished.

TY @dinahvp.bsky.social + @usatoday.com for the opp'y to say a few words: #USAID aimed for 'soft power' but ended up in #DOGE's crosshairs. Here's how. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n... #water #WASH

Very interesting and important #water job in #London: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Vitol/744000...

Thank you Chairman McCaul for your leadership. Keep going... I have two asks of you: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This here.

US Senator Moran of Kansas sounds alarm on delay of USAID food aid to starving people worldwide kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/k...

USAID does (and should continue to do) a lot of great work abroad, while creating tens of thousands of jobs here in the US (all 50 states). www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... TY @cnn.com @jeffstorobinsky.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @sendickdurbin.bsky.social @afeighery.bsky.social

Thank you @cnn.com for your coverage of the important, developing, and under-reported story of the dismantling of USAID. USAID does not do hand-outs. USAID does investments, and these investments pay dividends. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Can POTUS Dissolve #USAID by Executive Order? www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p...

For those tracking such: "The Supreme Court has previously ruled that the president does not have the power to withhold Clean #Water Act funds appropriated by Congress." Thank you, Environmental Protection Network and Michelle Roos. www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/20252801_gov...

Honored to be quoted in this article by @waltonbrett.bsky.social: “If we pull out of WASH investments + water security investments. . . . [w]e’ll be limited to just putting out fires . . . . rather than strengthening their capacity to solve their own problems.” www.circleofblue.org/2025/world/u...

FWIW Usaid.gov is back up, with the following: On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally. . . . . Thank you for your service

Solid reporting from Lauren Kent at CNN: How the US foreign aid freeze is intensifying humanitarian crises across the globe - feat. @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social -- edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/w...

Pls do what you can to stop the Stop Work Order at USAID – Protect Jobs, Security, and America’s Future - Sign the Petition! chng.it/95p4QdL9jZ

Outf'nrageous. 1) This stop work business is an inefficient way to go about needed foreign aid reform - putting it politely. 2) If FEWSnet doesn't qualify for an immediate exemption, that's unfathomable (also the most polite phrasing I can come up with). TY @erinsikorsky.bsky.social @devex.com

Great article that explains the complexity of the USAID stop work order. I'm quoted, along with my excellent colleague, John Oldfield @johnforwater.bsky.social. Real lives are impacted by this. Human lives are not waste or glut to be cut. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/30/w...

Safe drinking water and sanitation are the sustainable way to prevent the transmission of cholera. Vaccines are an important stopgap... But we need to take advantage of the time that vaccines give us, to properly prioritize water and sanitation investments in those cholera hotspots.

A developing and increasingly unpleasant story... Exclusive: State Department issues stop-work order on US aid devex.com/news/exclusi... @devex.com

An important article about #SouthAfrica's worsening #water challenges. saiia.org.za/research/joh...

“90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance for assessment of programmatic efficiencies and consistency with United States foreign policy.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...