Connecting the dots: A showcase of emerging integrated water management thinking and practice

• Author: Brian S. McIntosh,John Kirkwood
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/wwp2.12009
• Published date: 01 November 2019
• Date: 01 November 2019

World Water Policy. 2019;5:93–93. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/wwp2

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DOI: 10.1002/wwp2.12009

INTRODUCTION

Connecting the dots: A showcase of emerging

integrated water management thinking and practice

Brian S.McIntosh

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JohnKirkwood

International WaterCentre, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Correspondence

Brian S. McIntosh, International WaterCentre, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.

Email: B.McIntosh@watercentre.org

We will transform the way that we collectively think about and act to address complex sustainable de-

velopment and water management challenges by cultivating and nurturing people, their ideas, and their

ability to act. We can do this in part by providing opportunities for new and emerging water profes-

sionals to have their ideas, insights, and experiences heard and work profiled. Doing so is central to the

mission of World Water Policy (WWP) as a publication platform, and to the International WaterCentre

(IWC) as an organization dedicated to building capacity in the water sector to implement change.

The aim of this Special Section is to give voice to the innovative ideas and practices being devel-

oped, explored and driven by emerging water leaders who focus on taking integrated, “joined up” and

collaborative approaches to tackling complexity in sustainable development. We are very proud and

pleased at the IWC to be able to partner with WWP to do so. All of the emerging water leaders who fea-

ture here have recently completed the IWC’s professional Master of Integrated Water Management, and

the work that is presented comes from the final element of their degree, a significant individual project.

Some of the projects are focused on evaluating or assessing innovative practices which have been

implemented or opportunities for innovation, while others are focused on developing and piloting

innovative practices. Some projects reflect work undertaken in Australia where the IWC is based

while others represent work undertaken elsewhere including Chile, Cambodia, and elsewhere. Some

projects have been undertaken in the context of the work of the organization employing the author,

while others have been undertaken as individual pieces of work in collaboration or conjunction with

external host organizations. All the projects have common elements though—excellence, innovation,

and of course integration.

In addition, each project represents a part of the water sector that the author feels passionate about

transforming and which are offered within the Master of Integrated Water Management that the au-

thors have recently completed—WASH and Development, Urban Water, and, Water, Land and People.

We hope that you find the papers insightful and useful, that they offer valuable learning, and that they

provide a set of contacts for you to connect with over common interests, ideas, practices, and visions

for change. Enjoy, connect, collaborate, and take an active role in transforming water management.

Brisbane, October 2019