February 11, 2024February 13, 2024Uncategorized Protected: JG Meggen There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
January 26, 2024April 19, 2024Conflict Mitigation, Fair Water Allocation, Hydro-Politics, IWRM, JordanRiver, Middle East, News, Peace and Conflict, Water Diplomacy, Water Policy New Research Article: Exploring Water as a Catalyst for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict I am pleased to share my latest research article, “Water as a Turning Point: Paths to Coexistence in the Israeli-Palestinian Water Discourse,” […]
January 24, 2024January 24, 2024Engineering, Europe, Fair Water Allocation, IWRM, Natural Resources Management, News, Switzerland, Water Resources Advancing Sustainable Resource Management: Lessons from Lugano’s Water-Power Integration Photo by Carsten Brügmann: Combined water-supply and hydropower plant near Lugano. Last year, my visit to a combined water supply-power plant in […]
January 11, 2023March 27, 2023Conflict Mitigation, Fair Water Allocation, Human Rights, Hydro-Politics, IWRM, JordanRiver, Middle East, Natural Resources Management, News, Peace and Conflict, Water Diplomacy, Water Policy, Water Resources Navigating the Complexities of Humanitarian Action in the West Bank: A Personal Reflection Currently, I have a project in the West Bank together with my new NGO www.righttowater.ch. Not surprisingly it is a very challenging […]
November 8, 2022December 6, 2022Conflict Mitigation, Engineering, Fair Water Allocation, Human Rights, Hydro-Politics, JordanRiver, Middle East, Natural Resources Management, News, Peace and Conflict, Political Geography, Project, Project development, Project Management, Uncategorized, WASH, Water Diplomacy, Water Resources Supporting the human right to water in Jordan Valley Since decades, the Palestinian communities in the West Bank face various challenges and despite persistent efforts at various levels, the question of […]
November 4, 2022December 6, 2022Africa, Emergency Water Supply, Engineering, Natural Resources Management, News, Peace and Conflict, Project, WASH, Water Quality, Water Resources Irreversible Actions – Memories from Darfur I’m not generally a do-gooder. I love adventure, hands-on work and new experiences for which working in the humanitarian field is an […]
June 29, 2022December 6, 2022Conflict Mitigation, Eastern Europe, Emergency Water Supply, Engineering, Europe, Human Rights, News, Peace and Conflict, Project development, Project Management, Uncategorized, WASH, Water Resources War in Ukraine: Restoration of essential WASH infrastructure in Ukraine On 24 February 2022, Russian troops entered Ukrainian territory, sparking a war in the East of Europe – unprecedented since World War […]
September 14, 2021August 26, 2022Earthquake, Emergency Water Supply, Haiti, Natural Resources Management, News, WASH, Water Bourne Disease Earthquake in Haiti 2021: Emergency mission for Switzerlands rapid response in Port Salut On 14 August 2021, Haiti got struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2. Very short after the earthquake, together with […]
June 26, 2021December 6, 2022Asia, Backstopping, Evaluation, News, WASH Midterm review of the SDC WASH Technical Resources Unit, Cox’s Bazar Project Office, Bangladesh In 2017, an estimated 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district. Adding to a refugee […]
November 9, 2020June 25, 2021Africa, Conflict Mitigation, Fair Water Allocation, Hydro-Politics, IWRM, Natural Resources Management, News, Nile River Basin, Peace and Conflict, Water Diplomacy, Water Policy, Water Resources Course in Water Diplomacy In the week from 26 to 29 October 2020 I had the pleasure to facilitate a workshop in Water Diplomacy, organized by […]