TheWaterChannel is a public facility that aims to promote fast-learning on various aspects of water: its management, its social/cultural/political value, and its relationship with crucial aspects of well-being such as agriculture, food security and climate change. In effect, it is:
- a website that brings together videos on water, land management, food security and related topics, in one searchable online space (1450 videos and counting)
- a producer of training material on water-related themes; an open resource providing these and other training material through its website
- an initiator of debates and discussions on key issues related to water and related themes, through articles, video features, blog posts and live webinars on its website
- a regular channel of outreach and dissemination amongst educators, policymakers, water managers, media personnel and other creative communities interested in water.
Through its newsletter, social media presence, and mailing list, it reaches out to ~11,000 people in a weekly outreach cycle. The website itself receives 35-40,000 visitors a month. - a network of partner organizations, collaborators and ambassadors with a shared agenda that carries out training, productions, capacity building and campaigns on the ground in a number of countries.
TheWaterChannel has been around online and offline since 2009. It is currently a partnership between UNESCO-IHE, Cap-Net, IFAD, MetaMeta Communications and Nymphaea.
