The Wami-Ruvu Basin Water Board (WRBWB), water utility MORUWASA and World Waternet have been working together for several years to develop a sustainable approach to managing the Mindu Dam catchment, the main source of drinking water for the city of Morogoro in Tanzania. Erosion, sedimentation and increasing pressure on land and water resources demonstrate that protecting this vital water source requires more than investments in infrastructure alone. The surrounding landscape,

On Thursday 8th October, the NWB Award was presented for the fourth time. It is the NWB Fund's prize for the most compelling video on international water management work. Eleven projects submitted a video on this year's theme, 'reciprocity' in international cooperation. The winner is Blue Deal Peru, with the video “Reciprocity in Peru: water teaches us to learn together”! Bert van Boggelen, director of the NWB Fund, announced the winner in Amersfoort during the celebration of

The race for the NWB Award 2026 has begun. This week, an expert jury reviewed all eleven entries and selected a shortlist of three videos in which this year’s theme, ‘reciprocity’ in international cooperation, comes across most strongly. Until Tuesday 6th October, all water authority employees and international partners around the world can vote for their favourite. Three nominees The shortlist, in no particular order: Seeds of reciprocity: Romania and the Netherlands growing

The NWB Fund has approved a new project to improve the watermanagement of the Mlali River in Tanzania. It is part of a long term collaboration between partner organisations MORUWASA, Wami Ruvu Basin Water Board and World Waternet within the WaterWorx programme. This collaboration focuses on strengthening water security by improving drinking water availability and adressing the underlying causes of water problems. Like soil degradation and erosion that make the area more vulne

The Netherlands/Pekalongan – Through the KIWI Climate Game Changers program, various climate-adaptive opportunities have been identified within Blue Deal partnerships, including in Pekalongan, Indonesia. To achieve greenhouse gas and cost reduction the University of Semarang UNDIP in collaboration with the local Blue Deal team has conducted a feasibility study into the use of solar energy for the pumping stations in the city. Pekalongan is threatened by a combination of lan

Amsterdam, 16 February 2026, World Waternet, Yarmouk Water Company and the Greater Irbid Municipality have launched a rainwater harvesting initiative in Irbid, Jordan, supported by the NWB Fund. The project builds on a recent Memorandum of Understanding and responds to severe water scarcity and increasing urban flooding caused by groundwater depletion and climate-driven rainfall extremes. Figure 1: Potential implementation location for a Rainwater Harvesting System (RWHS) in

In the summer of 2023 Ingo van Lohuizen and Joyce Tentij entered the Klimaat- en Innovatieprogramma Waterschappen Internationaal (in short: KIWI programm) of the NBW Fund. They became members of the Blue Deal eSwatini team. During two years they travelled to southern Africa to work on a bankable proposal for small scale farmers in the Lomati catchment of eSwatini. Essence of their project is to support these farmers with installing drip irrigation energized by solar panels.