Empowering communities to ensure clean water for all

Highlands-to-Oceans

Indus River Floods 2022
Photo credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)

Water connects us

Water not only connects us all, but our access and use determines our collective security and well-being. We look to enable watershed thinking of water connecting and integrating water decision making, particularly in regards to climate extremes and hazards to include the communities of highlands to oceans.

For early warning and early action, we are testing our Artificial- Intelligence augmented, Hydro-climatic, Multihazard, Early Warning Early Action Lead Systems in Transboundary River Basins (A.I. Hydro-MEALS). This project harnesses satellite, aerial, in-situ sensors and citizen-science data to generate early warnings on (1) water security hazards, (2) crowdsourcing, social-media apps, and (3) direct community action to motivate early action from Highlands-to-Oceans (H20).

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UN convention on Deltas

Interactive Community Science

Collaborative and Croudsourcing

Our portal is an interactive, open-science, transparent knowledge network with near real-
time water monitoring data, enabling communication and collaboration between scientific
and community organizations for resolving persistent transboundary water security conflicts.

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Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network (TWIN) is a network of grassroots organizations, academic, scientific institutions, and individuals sharing a vision of clean water for all.

Our Vision

Water is everything. We work to share it.

Our mission is to strengthen and mobilize existing organizational networks that work locally, nationally and globally towards ‘equitable and reasonable’ sharing water resources across borders.

TWIN is committed to addressing not only water scarcity but also the degradation of water quality from anthropogenic sources, and the growing impacts of climate change.

TWIN promotes co-operation and collaboration among all network stakeholders who have transboundary water challenges.

TWIN’s vision is to promote water cooperation among countries, regions, municipalities and villages that share trans-boundary water resources in ways that are equitable and reasonable for all stakeholders.

TWIN works to improve border relations, water use practices, water quality, ecosystem services, and public health on both sides of the border and to build resilience to climate change.

TWIN’s activities are committed to conforming to the values of all international conventions and treaties on equitable sharing of resources and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #6 that addresses the access to clean water.

“Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”

— United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #6

What We Do

We work to:

Promote Equitable Access to Clean Water

By mobilizing our network of communities, non-governmental organizations and scientific institutions, TWIN facilitates actions to ensure transboundary water is clean and accessible to all.

Strengthen Cooperation Across Borders

TWIN engages and brings together stakeholders from all sides of the border to achieve our globally recognized goal of clean water for all, regardless of the boundaries.

Improve Public Health

Clean water is vital to human wellbeing, and TWIN works with communities and organization focused on cross-cutting social-ecological-systems to bring benefits to human communities and the ecosystem we depend on.

Encourage Ecosystem Services

Through understanding the ecosystem, we identify naturally occurring services that enable clean water for all as well as other socio-economic benefits.

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