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In October 2024, Le puit, the story well, our partner in the PluiË_ Promouvoir de manière LUdique et Innovante l'eau de Pluie Project, put an original spin on our rainwater harvesting work by creating wonderful tales inspired by IRHA’s activities !

The story follows Vango, a hero who travels from Senegal to Nepal, passing through Switzerland and neighboring France. Along his journey, he meets a woman who has found an ingenious way to collect rainwater to provide for her family. Using a ca...

During the Journée des bailleurs organized by the Fédération genevoise de coopération (FGC), we used the Doughnut Economics framework (by Kate Raworth) as a discussion tool to address the challenges of climate justice with representatives from Greater Geneva's cities, the canton, and FGC's NGOs.

This dynamic and impactful framework allowed us to collectively explore potential solutions to reconcile social foundations with respect for environmental planetary boundaries, both within Greater ...

On September 26, during the Alternatiba festival at Bastions in Geneva, the Water March brought together citizens, artists, and activists to raise awareness about the importance of water management. Inspired by the thousands of women and children who walk miles every day to access water, participants, carrying customized jars and bottles, marched together to the sound of music and songs.

This artistic event highlighted rainwater harvesting as a sustainable solution to the water crisis. Rainwat...

Webinar 2: 900 Students, 1 School, No Water – Ensuring water supply and improving hygiene through the Blue School concept

On September 26, 2024, the IRHA held its second webinar in a series designed to raise awareness among civil society organizations about the importance of rainwater management in their projects. Titled "900 Students, 1 School, No Water!", the event brought together around 30 online participants from countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malawi, and Tanzan...

For the first episode of the 7th season of the Léman Bleu show, Esprit solidaire explores "rain tags," inscriptions placed on sidewalks in various parts of the city by the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA). The program highlights the NGO's awareness activities concerning this precious and underappreciated resource, rainwater, carried out in both Geneva and Senegal. The goal is to encourage the valorization and collection of rainwater in both the Global North and South.

Since ...

At the nature festival in late May, volunteers guided by artist Mathilde Chenin from Atelier Bermuda created porous irrigation jars at the Moraines Garden. After being shaped from clay, the jars have just been fired and are now ready for use!

This ancient method allows for more efficient irrigation and reduces evaporation, offering better management of urban gardens. The jars slowly and directly deliver water to the plant roots, minimizing waste and maximizing irrigation efficiency.

These jars ...

At Bains des Paquis in Geneva, Global Water Dances - Geneva offered a participatory dance workshop in collaboration with IRHA as part of the PluiË_Promoting Rainwater Playfully and Innovatively project. This initiative brilliantly combined participatory dance with raising awareness around a strong environmental message on rainwater management, dear to IRHA. The performance began with an emotive duet set to music specially composed for this rain dance.

The interaction with the audience was a m...

Following the knowledge-sharing workshop organized by IRHA in April 2024, aimed at raising awareness among FGC partner NGOs about rainwater management, Emile Badji, director of the Keur Yaakar hotel complex and partner of Tereo, decided to invest in a rainwater management solution to address the recurring potable water shortages at the site.

To enhance the supply of potable water to the rooms, he decided to install a water tarp, a well-shaped cistern capable of storing a significant amount of ...

New programmes on watershed management in Nepal, ecosystem restoration and climate resilient agriculture in Senegal and cultural activities with kids in Geneva. Enjoy readying our freshly edited 2023 Annual Report!

During the walk, children are guided through the through the park's various facilities and green spaces of the park, where they'll have the chance to see at close quarters how rainwater is collected and used to nourish plants and eco-systems.

Simple, age-appropriate explanations will be provided the importance of preserving this natural resource.

This walk offers youngsters a unique sensory experience where they can smell, touch and observe rainwater in its natural environment.

Rainwater was at the heart of a knowledge-sharing workshop organized by the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) in partnership with the Senegalese Rainwater Harvesting Association (ASGEP). From April 15 to 16, 2024, in Djilor Djidiack, Senegal, this event brought together committed minds, including members from 14 Senegalese NGOs: Agrosol, ASPSP, Caritas Kaolack, Djigui Sembe, FADDO, Ferme des 4 Chemins, Gret, Fédération Kajoor Jankeen, Keur Yakaar, Kuu Tinaa, Océanium Dakar...

On Saturday, April 27th at 4 pm, the vernissage of Tags de PluiË took place on the Pont de la Machine in the heart of Geneva!

Tag Creation Process

We aimed to create the tag phrases in a participatory and collaborative manner. To achieve this, we organized three activities titled "Paroles de Pluie," aimed at exploring the connection between words and rainwater, emotions, and art (see our previous blog).

Subsequently, we applied these phrases onto the ground using a hydrophobic, biological, and ...

Go out and search for our rain tags pluiË in the area of Geneva !

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In the context of our PartageÖ project, a knowledge-sharing initiative funded by the Geneva Federation of Cooperation, we are organizing a Rainwater Management Awareness Workshop in Djilor, Senegal, on April 15th and 16th.

This workshop is open to all partners of organizations affiliated with the FGC, particularly partners of the Food Sovereignty Platform (PSA), who are interested in issues related to water and rainwater management.

The main objective is to actively encourage participating NGO...

We are extremely proud to present to you the program of activities for our project PluiË - Promouvoir de manière LUdique et Innovante l’Eau de Pluie.

You will discover a variety of creative and artistic activities, such as participatory dance workshops aimed at appropriating and valorizing rainwater through movement, in collaboration with the Global Water Dances - Geneva.

Also on the agenda are rain walks offered by IRHA in various locations in Geneva, such as Parc Bertrand or the Berge de ...

The opening of our exhibition "Hors Sec" at Espace Enchanté took place last Saturday, in commemoration of World Water Day. Approximately 50 people took part in various highlights of the afternoon.

IRHA presented a photo exhibition consisting of 9 shots and testimonials from different continents, showcasing rainwater as a free and universal resource, usable in everyday life.

A playful expression space around a large cloud was also offered by IRHA, where everyone could share their memories relat...

In a context where water is becoming a growing global concern, IRHA's PluiË_Promouvoir de manière Lundique et Innovante l'Eau de pluie project is raising awareness of the need to change perceptions of the rainwater resource. The project's "Paroles de Pluie" activity features a creative, participatory approach to exploring the link between art, words and rainwater.

The activity took place in three distinct stages, each offering a unique dimension for expressing and understanding the resource ...

In November, I had the honour of meeting with the Minister of Water Resource of Burkina Faso. The meeting was held at the Burkina Faso House in Geneva,

Following the oucomes of the IWRM review conducted in Burkina, we had the chance to discuss water issues and the obvious need to take into account rainwater management into the plans. Urban or rural settings, it is all about dealing with the too much and too little water.

Climate change is there and it is becoming an urgent matter for national...

The International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance is pleased to announce the launch of the PluiË project, an innovative initiative aimed at raising awareness and engaging the public of Greater Geneva in the crucial importance of Rainwater Management (RWM).

Aim of the project

"PluiË - Promouvoir de manière LUdique et Innovante l'Eau de pluie" aims to break the rules, deconstruct prejudices and put forward a rethought approach to rainwater. Over a period of 1 year, the aim is to raise awareness ...

Once again this year, IRHA will be present at the 9th edition of the Alternatiba Léman festival, to be held in Geneva's Parc des Bastions. The festival kicked off on Monday August 28, with 5 days of conferences, roundtables and workshops at various venues around the city.

Alternatiba Léman is first and foremost a citizens' movement that highlights the many citizen initiatives that aim to raise public awareness of the climate emergency. Thus, every year since 2015, these actors have had the o...

An interesting blog on rainwater practice around the globe was recently written by Prof. Mooyoung Han as a contribution to the Rainwater Harvesting and Management Specialist Group of the International Water Association. Prof. Han is the CEO of a Korean NGO "Rain for All". The NGO is an alliance member of IRHA. IRHA is in turn a "Rain for All" member while we also contribute to the IWA RWHM Specialist Group

" As we seek to develop water practices fit for the future, we can look for lesson...

There are many private and cooperative rainwater harvesting initiatives in the Geneva region. While sharing information about rainwater harvesting at the 5th Alternatiba Léman Festival, in the city’s Parc des Bastions, we exchanged with local advocates of rainwater harvesting. We learnt about the collective and cooperative, Le Terroir, who harvest rain for watering their organic, market garden. They sell their produce in Présilly on Tuesday evenings.

We chatted with a local inhabitant, ...

Precious Rain

Emily Dickinson makes rain generous and loving, like a mother, in 'Rain Poem’.

Drops fall on a house 'half a dozen kissed the eaves/and made the gables laugh’. By accounting for raindrops, almost one by one, this poem introduces each one as something precious. The poet, in following the course of these falling drops, imagines 'were they peals/what necklaces could be!’. If we succeed in teaching people to value raindrops as much as pearls falling from the sky, we will b...

Rachel Nisbet: As an architect, how did you come to focus on creating of low-tech structures, which are able to collect and store snow and ice?

Conradin Clavuot: When my architecture class at the University of Lichtenstein discovered Sonam Wangchuck’s Ladakian Ice Stupas, this was an important step in conceiving how we might initiate creative, meaningful, socioenvironmental architectural projects in our own water-stressed regions. That in creating ice stupas, natural processes can excl...

Rachel Nisbet: Sálvano, you have spent a career working in nature conservation and environmental planning at the international level, focusing latterly on how communities can develop their resilience to natural hazards. We are very fortunate to benefit from your expertise as an IRHA board member. Thanks for your time in a few questions about your vision for IRHA.

What motivates you in supporting IRHA?

Sálvano Briceño: I believe IRHA performs an important function in promoting sustainabl...

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Water March at Alternatiba festival !

Webinar 2: 900 Students, 1 School, No Water

IRHA is being featured on the Léman Bleu show Esprit Solidaire !

The porous irrigation jars are ready for use at the Moraines Garden !

After the Rain: Between participatory dance and unveiling of rain tags

The knowledge-sharing workshop in Senegal is bearing fruit !

2023 Annual report is OUT!!

Café-débat : L’eau de pluie dans vos projets, vous y avez pensé ?

Balade de pluie

A Successful Knowledge-Sharing Workshop in Senegal !

Tags de PluiË in Geneva !

Go out and search for our rain tags: pluiË !

A rainwater harvesting awareness workshop in Senegal is coming!

PluiË Programme in Geneva

Review of the Opening of the "Hors Sec" Exhibition

Paroles de PluiË: a 3-dimensional activity

IRHA meets with Minister of Water Resource (Burkina)

3, 2, 1... launch of PluiË initiative

On the road to Alternatiba 2023 !

Rainwater practices around the globe

Geneva’s Rainwater Harvesters

Poems about Rain

In Conversation with Conradin Clavuot of Ice Stupa International

In Conversation with IRHA Board Member Sálvano Briceño

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