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Waterproof is Partners for Water's podcast that travels the globe sharing uplifting stories about how today's water crises are being tackled through smart ideas, local knowledge and international partnerships. Hosted by water expert Tracy Metz, Waterproof delves into crucial water themes with local and international experts, researchers, practitioners and other water professionals.

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Wet Breakthroughs!

Saison 1 · Épisode 10

jeudi 19 mars 2026 • Durée 34:17

What if cities could float? What if we could predict floods before they happen? Or even create water from air?

In the latest episode of our Waterproof podcast, we explore bold ideas and breakthrough innovations that could reshape how we live with water. From floating urban developments and digital twins that help predict floods, to new approaches to water governance and solutions that improve everyday lives.

Featuring insights from:

Rutger de Graaf (Blue 21) on the shift from fighting water to living on water
Mary Matthews (UNDP) on why governance and policy are the real innovations we need
Florian Witsenburg (Tygron) on the role of data and digital twins in managing floods
Rueben Moore (Solaq) on trust and culture in adopting new water sources
Tanya Huizer (Asian Development Bank) on how the Laundry Transformation can improve women’s lives

Together, they show how technology, governance and social innovation can turn water challenges into opportunities.

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Early Warning!

Saison 1 · Épisode 9

mercredi 21 janvier 2026 • Durée 34:05

From satellites and weather stations to social media and AI – we have more data than ever to anticipate floods, droughts and extreme weather. But early warning is only effective if it reaches people in time.

In this new episode of Waterproof, host Tracy Metz speaks with five experts working at the frontline of early warning systems. Together they explore how data becomes action, why trust and cooperation matter, and how early warning evolves step by step – from global technology to local impact.

Featuring insights from Jurjen Wagemaker (Floodtags), Evelyn Aparicio Medrano (FutureWater), Dorien Lugt (HKV), Frank Annor (TAHMO) and Sindy Mthimkhulu (INMACOM), this episode shows why early warning is not just a technical challenge, but a human one.

Listen now and discover how early warning systems can save lives and strengthen water resilience worldwide.

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The Indigenous Voice

Saison 1 · Épisode 8

mardi 16 décembre 2025 • Durée 35:07

This edition of Waterproof is all about how modern-day science and age-old indigenous knowledge can be used to solve today’s water crises. So, not one or the other but both, fused together to come up with solutions to our common and increasing problems.

Tracy spoke to four water experts from all over the world: a Maya from Mexico, a Fijian, a Sami woman from Sweden, and a native Hawaiian. They were members of an indigenous delegation to the 2025 Stockholm Water Week. And they all agree: their voices need to beheard.

All this, plus amazing Lo-TEK solutions to today’s High Tech problems. Find out what they are in this edition of Waterproof: The Indigenous Voice.

Our guests are:

Julia Watson: landscape architect and author of the book Lo-TEK.
Dr. Yolanda López Maldonado: indigenous Maya woman and founder of Indigenous Science.
Anna-Kari Kroik: Stockholm-based, Sami teacher.
Dr. KaiLei’a Duriano: indigenous Scientist fromHawaii.
Dr. Milika Sobey: Senior Technical Adviser-CoastalEcosystems.

Waterproof is the Partners for Water podcast that travels the globe sharing uplifting stories about how today’s water crises are being tackled through smart ideas, local knowledge and international partnerships. Hosted by water expert Tracy Metz, Waterproof delves into crucial water themes with local and international experts, researchers, practitioners and other water professionals.

Find more information here: https://partnersforwater.nl/news/waterproof-podcast/

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Drinkable Rivers, Swimmable Cities

Saison 1 · Épisode 7

lundi 17 novembre 2025 • Durée 33:30

In this episode, we meet activists and campaigners who believe rivers and nature should have legal rights – just like people. They walk rivers, swim in urban waterways, write books, work with communities, and even take governments to court. All with one goal: ensuring clean, healthy rivers and cities where people can swim safely.

Featuring:

Matt Sykes – Co-Founder, Swimmable Cities
Li An Phoa – Initiator, Drinkable Rivers
Robert MacFarlane – Author
Harpo ’t Hart – Artistic Director, Embassy of the North Sea

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From Financing Green to Greening Finance

Saison 1 · Épisode 6

jeudi 13 mars 2025 • Durée 38:34

From Financing Green to Greening Finance.

The difference is bigger than just syntax. So we speak with FMO, the Dutch Entrepreneurial Bank about the “secret sauce” that allows them to loan money to projects most financiers would consider too risky. Projects like Taprobane Seafood in Sri Lanka, which FMO financed, even after 30 years of political instability. So why did they do it?

We also speak with ABN AMRO Bank Chief economist Sandra Phlippen and Netherlands Water Ambassador Meike van Ginneken about what needs to happen to get banks and funds to be less risk averse when it comes to “greening” their finance.

That’s coming up in this sixth episode of Waterproof.

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Nature's Recipe: Water, Biodiversity and Food

Saison 1 · Épisode 5

mercredi 26 février 2025 • Durée 38:10

Water, biodiversity and food: it’s Nature’s Recipe. But how do you keep these important drivers balanced, healthy, profitable and resilient? And what do jaguars and strawberries have to do with it?

This episode of Waterproof tells stories all about how water, biodiversity and food meet. Did you know that 70% of the world’s freshwater is used for food production? And that food production causes 70% of biodiversity loss. So, this show is about how scientists, engineers, officials, experts and indigenous people come together to work on solving these profound problems. So, we speak with guests in Ghana, Colombia, Mexico and the Netherlands who show the world CAN be more sustainable, or in the case of the berry growers in Jalisco State, Mexico, a sweeter and juicier place.

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Build-Neglect-Repair-Repeat

Saison 1 · Épisode 4

mercredi 29 janvier 2025 • Durée 35:58

This 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 in 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 .

So we travel to Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mozambique and the city of Chennai in India, to speak with people who are doing their best to break this cycle.

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Locals in the lead

Saison 1 · Épisode 3

mercredi 8 janvier 2025 • Durée 31:39

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 episode of Waterproof, more and more, the locals run the show!

So, we bike through Amsterdam, where gardens and flood prevention measures are put in by the city and then maintained by Amsterdammers. In Ghana, water projects are consulting village elders to make sure the plans align with their needs - and maybe even benefit from their local knowledge.

And as a massive, but slow new Delta Plan gets underway to control flooding in Bangladesh, we look into small-scale projects implemented by locals that have benefits for their people right now. Locals in the Lead!

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The Salty Intruder

Saison 1 · Épisode 2

mardi 3 décembre 2024 • Durée 29:32

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.

In Egypt, where the Nile delta is getting saltier, farmers like Tariq el Arini are switching from water-intensive rice to saline loving potatoes. And Vietnam’s ‘Sokfarm’ has moved from coconut milk, ruined by salt, to coconut sugar, made from the sap of the flower. Even Dutch farmers are struggling to come to terms with the intruder. But then we meet Hans Elenbaas, who has harvested salty sea vegetables his whole life! And he loves it.

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Let Nature Do It!

Saison 1 · Épisode 1

mardi 19 novembre 2024 • Durée 29:56

For centuries, the Dutch have been good at keeping the water out using increasingly engineered structures of concrete and steel like the Delta Works. And for years, they’ve exported that technology too.

But times are changing. Macho dikes keep the water out, but they’re terrible for nature and biodiversity. The Dutch are - slowly - discovering that you can work with nature rather than against it. It’s called Nature Based Solutions and they work - in the Netherlands, in Ghana, basically everywhere. And that is why this week’s show is called: Let Nature Do It!

We speak with Bregje van Wesenbeeck, who is experimenting with willows and mangroves to see how they stand up to storms. Carel Nobbe of the Blue Deal says: first you have to make sure the people you’re working with are on board. Wetlands ecologist Emmanuel Nii Attram Taye from Ghana is working to save the mangrove forests that protect the coast. For the Netherlands, says Alex Hekman of NL2120, it’s both: Nature-based Solutions are essential, but always in combination with hard infrastructure.

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BREGJE VAN WESENBEECK & DELTARES

CAREL NOBBE AND THE BLUE DEAL EMMANUEL NII ATTRAM TAYE AND THE CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION RESEARCH
ALEX HEKMAN AND NL2020

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