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Waterproof 12: Waterproof LIVE!

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

This is Waterproof Live! This show was recorded at the Waterproof conference on May 19th 2026 at the Fokker Terminal in The Hague. The theme was ‘Shaping Water Solutions for a Changing Climate’. This bi-annual conference is is the international meeting place where the Dutch water sector comes together to help shape tomorrow’s water solutions. This year, it was the run-up to the UN Water Conference this December in the United Arab Emirates.  I interviewed three special guests about governance, participation and upscaling climate adaptation. They are Stephen Teeuwen of the...

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Bird's eye view from land out to sea with a futuristic floating city off the coast

Waterproof 10: Wet Breakthroughs!

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

What if cities could float? Or we could create water from thin air? Or make digital copies of cities, landscapes, even of the entire Earth? Breakthroughs and hopeful ideas galore in this edition of Waterproof. Some super big, some very mundane like the Laundry Tranformation that the Asian Development Bank is launching in order to unchain women from labor that is keeping them from bettering their lives. This edition highlights progress both grand and everyday. Dive into hopeful breakthroughs shaping our future and test your knowledge with the interactive Laundry Quiz. It’s all a mix...

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Three women and two men are the speakers in this episode of the podcast Waterproof

Waterproof 9: Early Warning

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

This 9th episode of Waterproof, my podcast for Partners for Water, is about early warning systems. There is a lot of technology available now that helps gather data about upcoming weather – floods, flash floods, drought, even flash droughts. Satellites are continually circling the earth, weather stations measure what’s happening on the ground, people post millions of weather events on social media and AI can crunch the numbers in the blink of an eye. That’s all great, but what about the last mile? How do you get the warning from the satellite to the farmer and the citydweller? Early...

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Mensen houden elkaars hand vast op een houten pier in het water, met gebouwen en een brug op de achtergrond.

Waterproof 7: Drinkable Rivers, Swimmable Cities

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

This 7th episode of the podcast Waterproof for Partners for Water is about activists and campaigners who not only care deeply about water and nature. Water bodies, rivers, forests – they should have legal rights, just like a person. So our speakers jump in urban waterways, they walk the rivers, they write books, they even take governments to court. And some of them even sing songs with the trees and the turtles. All in the service of making sure we have drinkable rivers and swimmable cities. Listen to it here:

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Vrouw met donker haar, glimlachend, draagt een bloemenblouse, leunt op een stoel in een kantooromgeving.

Waterproof 6: From Financing Green to Greening Finance

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

“Climate adaptation and water investments have huge economic benefits, but it’s hard to translate that into financial revenue streams”, says International Water Envoy of the Netherlands Meike van Ginneken in this sixth and last episode of Waterproof. “You need ‘patient capital’. And that very quickly gets you to public finance. Governments have a very important role in this, in organizing climate adaptation.” Listen to it here:

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Groene tuin met kronkelend bakstenen pad, omringd door struiken en omheind met gele en blauwe stenen.

Waterproof 4: Build. Neglect. Repair. Repeat.

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

This fourth episode of Waterproof is all about breaking the Build-Neglect-Repair Cycle. As we have called it: Build. Neglect. Repair. Repeat. With the best intentions, countries from the global north often spend a bundle of money building something that people in developing countries need, or that the donor thinks they need. Then the locals can’t maintain it, or can’t afford to, or they don’t know how. It falls apart, and the donor either has to come back to repair it – or doesn’t come back at all. It’s a vicious circle.  Listen to it here:

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Kinderen met blauwe uniformen wassen spullen in een grote metalen schaal met water.

Waterproof 3: Locals in the Lead

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

Once upon a time, Europeans would turn up in emerging countries with mega-infrastructure projects meant to help people. They were well-meaning, but often deaf to what the local populations wanted or needed. Times have changed and, as you’ll hear in this third episode of Waterproof, more and more, the locals run the show!  Listen to it here:

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Boer met blauwe overall en strohoed, kijkt naar tekstballon "Help me by growing some crops".

Waterproof 2: The Salty Intruder

Geschreven door Tracy Metz op . Gepost in Podcast, Water, Waterproof.

This second episode of Waterproof is all about ‘The Salty Intruder’. All over the world, arable land is becoming more and more saline, threatening farmers’ livelihoods and our food security. But there are smart, innovative people looking for solutions – and the Dutch are helping, for example with a new Virtual Reality game to teach farmers to plant salt tolerant crops. I played it – but I wasn’t very good at it, I have to admit. Listen to it here:

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