Welcome to the next interview in the Kini Interview Series with Virak Chan, a water and sanitation specialist and a focal point for the Cambodian Water Sector. Virak manages sanitation projects for the World Bank. He also works to support the Cambodian government on decentralization reforms and water resource management initiatives.

In this interview Virak and Karen discuss:

• Decentralizing the functions of the national government in Cambodia to sub-national or local government to achieve more effective sanitation outcomes.

• A new initiative in the region called the Centre for Sustainable Water aiming to develop local capacity in the Cambodian water sector and beyond.

• The role of integrated water management in the Mekong region as a driver for collaboration and innovation.

• Promoting leadership through facilitating better knowledge sharing

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Welcome to the eighth interview in the Kini Interview series. Today we talk to Tony Slatyer, the Special Advisor for the High Level Panel on Water for the Australian Government.

Tony’s previous roles include having been head of the Water Division and its predecessor Divisions of the Commonwealth Government for over nine years.

Prior to this he was directly involved at the Division Head level in the making of the National Water Initiative, the Living Murray and other national water reforms of that time.

In this interview, we discuss:

- What is the High Level Panel on Water, and what its mandate is

- Why SDG 6, the SDG focused on water, is important for achieving the other SDGs

- Australia’s initiative as a part of the High Level Panel on Water: the World Water Data Initiative

Please enjoy this far insightful, and inspiring discussion with Tony Slatyer.

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Welcome to the seventh interview in the Kini Interview series. Today we talk to Prof. Quentin Grafton, an economist from the Australian National University who works at the nexus between Food, Water, Energy, and the Environment.

In this interview Quentin discusses:

• The future of food and farming in light of growing 2008 / 2009 food crises that is linked to water scarcity problems.

• Networks and resources that may be used to learn more about these issues and engage with these problems.

• Participatory planning processes used to develop policy on how to address these future problems.

• Examples from the Asia Pacific region where these issues are prevalent and how they are playing out

Please enjoy this far reaching, and inspiring discussion with Prof. Quentin Grafton.

Zenia Tata is the Executive Director, Global Expansion at XPRIZE.

Her areas of expertise include program design, management, and business development for not-for-profit organizations and business enterprises.

XPRIZE is a non-profit innovation engine that is striving to push the limits of what’s possible. Learn more about XPRIZE here. The Water Abundance XPRIZE is global competition with a USD$1.75 million prize purse. Team registrations for the competition closes on Friday, April 28th. Learn more about the Water Abundance XPRIZE at water.xprize.org

Zenia talks extensively on the work being done by XPRIZE on making affordable and scalable innovation available to billions of people across the globe.

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Welcome to this Kini Interview with Huw Pohler, Senior Consultant with Aither (www.aither.com.au), an economics, policy, and strategy consulting firm.

Huw is a multidisciplinary water resource management and Asia engagement specialist, with on-the-ground experience in Australia, China, Malaysia, Myanmar and the UK.

Before joining Aither, he worked in the federal public service (Murray-Darling Basin Authority), the not-for-profit sector (Asialink) the international consulting business (China Policy), and the tertiary education sector (ANU).

Huw is an accomplished innovator; he co-founded the successful and sustainable Australia-China Youth Association and helped leverage a major grant from the federal government to establish Asialink Business.

In this interview, we discuss

- Lasting, meaningful connections and knowledge sharing between Chinese and Australians;

- Aither’s Valuing Water Framework, and how countries might be able to engage with this tool;

- Huw’s impressions on how to strategically prioritise national water management issues, with key stakeholders, in order to make progress in water management;

- The critical importance of the water-food-energy nexus;

- The growing concern of degrading surface water quality, and solutions that are emerging to monitor and improve water quality;

We hope you enjoy this interview. For more updates please visit www.Kini.org.au.

Tari Bowling is an Integrated Water Management practitioner and PhD student with 15 years’ experience encompassing the fields of WASH and nutrition, Community Led Total Sanitation, participatory community development, environmental management, and water resource management with a focus on project integration.

Tari has over seven years’ experience in Laos, in remote areas, working with development organisations and private industry on project proposals and development in WASH and nutrition.

Tari also has nine years’ experience working at state and local government levels in Australia in the fields of large scale and rural/urban catchment management.

She is currently undertaking a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland measuring impacts of integrated WASH and nutrition projects in the Asia Pacific region in light of Sustainable Development Goal 6 - Water and Sanitation.

Her focal areas are on social behaviour change communication and institutional change to achieve long term health outcomes through integrated WASH and nutrition programmes.

In this interview, we discuss SDGs and their implementation, her experience working in Lao, and opportunities for making progress to achieve SDG 6.

Welcome to the 2nd interview in the Kini Interview series. Today we are interviewing Brad Moggridge from the University of Canberra.

Brad is from the Kamilorai nation from North Western, NSW from a large and proud extended family. He grew up in Western Sydney and now lives in Canberra.

Brad is currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Canberra and he is also the Indigineous Liaison Officer at the National Environmental Science Program (Threatened Species Recovery Hub).

In this interview we discuss many things. We talk about

• diversity of Aboriginal Knowledge meanings of traditional and scientific knowledge

• developing credible evidence to back up traditional knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems

• opportunities for bringing Aboriginal and indigenous people into the research process

We hope you enjoy this interview. For more updates please visit www.Kini.org.au.

Peter is based out of Cairns in tropical North Queensland and Peter's activities area mostly focused on the Pacific Island Nations. In this interview, we are going to discuss his current projects in Papua New Guinea and in Vanuatu. Peter takes us into the villages where he works, sharing how he approaches communities and sharing how he has been successful in implementing water supply, environmental monitoring and sanitation delivery projects.

In this interview, we discuss community perceptions of water, community assets vs private assets for water and the potential and the very real role of community water champions for community water stewardship as well as the role of the boutique consulting firm in international development.

I hope this interview will interest and inspire you and in a sense also transport you to the heart of community life in the Pacific.

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Welcome to the first interview in the Kini interview series. In today's interview, I speak with Chris O'Neill and environmental engineer and the financial director of Hydronumerics whose mission is to bring innovative, state-of-the-art and solution based services to the global water industry.

Chris is based in Melbourne and in this interview, we will discuss:

- His work in Australia, India and Brazil.

- How he got started with working in India

- His ideas for authentic international collaboration to address water management

- How to build relationships with communities and

- His advice for people who want to get involved professionally with water management in developing countries.

Enjoy this interview and conversation with Chris.