YWP Get-Together | Next Generation Water Action: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

IWA Young Water Professionals took an active part in this inspiring initiative, offering their support, not only on the organisational level, but also taking an active part in the Mentorship Programme, offering their expertise to their junior mentees. Having gained much valuable experience and observations, they would like to invite YWPs to get together, share their observations and gained perspectives, and see how collectively as IWA YWPs they can work together towards developing solutions to water challenges.

Technical University of Denmark’s Next Generation Water Action is an international initiative, which involves over a hundred of young professionals coming from academic and entrepreneurial backgrounds. 2021 has brought together participants from Kenya, Ghana, Republic of Korea, India, Mexico, and Denmark, who served as the Next Generation of Water Leaders. Bringing together their diverse talent and experience, they advanced on developing striking ideas in providing solutions to the most compelling challenges of sustainable water.

Panelists

• Moderator - Ayman Saber: https://iwa-connect.org/user/5ba3484d51e3142ee1c0324c Researcher Fellow at Chinese Academy of science
• Moderator - Emily Ryan: https://iwa-connect.org/user/5ad978be4c7a000bae8297d8 IWA EWL SC Member; Masters Student at TU Delft in Netherlands
• Inês Breda: https://iwa-connect.org/user/57f764410be9365723544139 IWA EWL SC and YWPDK Member; Product & Process Manager at Silhorko/Eurowater A/S Treasurer in Denmark
• Pabel Cervantes-Avilés: https://iwa-connect.org/user/565cd7d9c1c0a1b4284386ad IWA EWL SC Member; Assistant Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico
• Niti Jadeja: https://iwa-connect.org/user/5a93c81da5edc02d6b116da1 IWA EWL SC Member; Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
• Jacob Amengor: https://iwa-connect.org/user/566824dcc82261aa7e391c17 IWA EWL SC Member, Water Quality Supervisor at Ghana Water Company Limited in Ghana

IWA Young Water Professional members

The aim of this YWP Get-Together is to share and encourage other IWA YWPs, who are potential researchers, practitioners and entrepreneurs to take part in mentorship activities based on real challenges. In this Get-Together, YWPs will be able to:

• Deeply understand their role, as students and experts, acting as connectors across generations
• Conceive innovation as part of co-creation efforts
• Understand that the design of local water solutions is based on global connections