Karen Delfau from IWACAN talks to Jonathan Maino from Eda Ranu about non-revenue water challenges he is facing in Port Moresby, supplying water to settlements, working BOT partners, and lessons PNG can learn from other Pacific nations.

Visit http://www.Kini.org.au to access Jonathan's written interview Q&A.

In this interview with IWCAN’s Karen Delfau at the Asia International Water Week(AIWW), Sri Lanka Water Partnership Senior Advisor and Chair, Kusum Athukorala talks about women in irrigation, need for a gendered perspective in water, sustainable financing and the opportunities and challenges available to young water professionals.

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Christy Davis has been with World Vision for six and a half years, working in Singapore and supporting the Asia region. She has worked both in the public and private sector, including UNDP. Asia has been her home for over 27 years.

In this interview with Karen Delfau, Christy talks about her work with World Vision, Asia P3 Hub, and combinatorial innovation

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Mark Pascoe is the CEO of the International WaterCentre, which provides capacity building services to water managers and their organisations and runs a variety of training programs to help develop future water leaders. In his Kini Interview, Mark shares his experience from his 40+ years in the water sector across Australia and internationally, highlighting key challenges and opportunities to achieving Integrated Water Management. In the interview, we discuss:

· Boundary-spanning leadership and transformational change;

· The SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership as a boundary-spanning organisation;

· The different roles of champions, leaders, and followers; and

· Cultivating mentoring and coaching opportunities.

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In this follow-up interview, Tony shares updates to the High Level Panel on Water that has taken place snice his last Kini interview.

The key updates involve:

- The publication of a video to promote global awareness about SDG6;

- The HLPW statement on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and its significance;

- The Water Innovation Engine, and funds made available to support innovation in the urban water sanitation sector;

- Progress with the World Water Data Initiative; and

- Work with the Netherlands Government to support the process of Valuing Water.

If you have been tracking the initiatives and progress of the High Level Panel on Water, it would be worth your time to have a listen. As with the first interview, Tony highlights the opportunities for individual action and involvement with these priorities. Visit Kini (www.Kini.org.au) to listen to other great interviews with leading water practitioners.

Kea Pheng is the Executive Director of RainWater Cambodia (RWC), local NGO established in 2004, working mainly in communities to ensure equitable access to water and sanitation services. They currently work in 15 provinces on 45 development, water & sanitation and climate change adaptation projects.

He has been working in the development sector for five years and has worked on rural development projects before working on water and sanitation projects. Kea has an MBA and a development studies degree from Switzerland.

In this interview with Karen Delfau, Pheng Kea talks about RainWater Cambodia, the projects they are presently working on including sanitation and climate change programs as well as CLTS, behaviour change communication, and the need for better sanitation in Cambodia.

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Welcome to this Kini Interview Series with Dr Len Drury, Director of Aqua Rock Konsultants. Len is an international water consultant, working across the world for 35 years. He previously worked for the government for 10 years. He has extensive experience working on water projects for town, city water supplies, mining projects, refugee camps and even hydropower dams.

In this interview Len talks about water sanitation, the mining sector, and the Indo-Pacific achieving SDG6.

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Welcome to the next interview in the Kini Interview Series with William Spitzenberg and Jason Jaskowiak from the American Samoa Power Authority (Water Division).

In this interview we discuss:

1. Address non-revenue water losses in American Samoa

2. Building capacity for practical management of old leadking piped water systems in the Pacific

3. The types of metering and piping systems that can be incrementally applied to resolve non-revenue water losses and improve water management

4. Using Advanced Metering Infrastructure and water balance spreadshees to improve data management and develop benchmarking systems to improve water supply outcomes.

5. Secondary treatment waivers and how to negotiate the political, economic, social and technical issues surrounding their potential removal.

6. On-site wastewater treatment in the highly permeable soils of American Samoa and how to change centuries of learned behaviours.

7. How to design a wastewater treatment plant on a tropical island without secondary treatment or chlorine disinfection.

8. The need for innovative thinking that genuinely considers the constraints of the cultural context to be effective.

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Welcome to the next interview in the Kini Interview Series with Pritha Hariram. Pritha is an experienced water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) specialist having worked on humanitarian relief and development projects in the Asia Pacific region.

She has technical experience in the planning, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of community WASH projects. Pritha is experienced in source water monitoring, treatment works design and management, distribution system operation and maintenance and consumer use. She has worked for public, private, governmental and donor agencies in Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Maldives, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Solomon Islands.

Presently, Pritha is the IWA's Program Manager for the Water and Sanitation Services program. The program aims to afford a range of target audiences including service providers, regulators, and financial institutions with best practices in achieving universal access and improved service delivery of water supply and sanitation.

Prior to joining IWA, Pritha was an Urban Development Specialist with the Asian Development Bank where her primary role was to lead in the identification, development, implementation, and administration of loans and grants for urban water and sanitation programs in South Asia.

Pritha also has extensive experience in hazard analysis and risk management of drinking water and wastewater systems to safeguard public health and improve operation and maintenance efficiency through her work in private and public utilities.

In this interview we discuss:

1. Pritha's association with IWA

2. Importance of multidisciplinary teams,

3. Women in water

4. Why integrated water management is the way for the water industry

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Welcome to the next interview in the Kini Interview Series with Darryl Day, managing director for ICE WaRM (International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management).

In this interview we discuss:

1. Developing international partnerships, particularly betweeen Australia and Nepal

2. Gender inclusion and development of water policies

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