The Water ESSENCE project focuses on topics with high relevance for the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs with implications for development: education, water, life on land, energy, health, urban development, and organizational/political leadership and collaboration as conceived by the 17 goals. A number of goals are selected for the purpose of analysing how they improve the conditions for realizing other goals, but also how they may be detrimental if pursued without an understanding of the wholeness and interconnectedness between the goals. For example,
SDG 6: “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. This goal shows a high degree of synergy with poverty, agriculture, greening and recycling of industry, cleaner cities not to mentions the importance for SDG2 (Zero Hunger), SDG3 (Good Health), SDG5 (Gender Equality) or SDG10 (Reduced inequality) and SDG17 on partnerships and cooperation.
Harsha Ratnaweera is a Professor on Water and Wastewater Technology at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
Zakhar Maletskyi's teaching speciality is Water and Wastewater Treatment Technology and Engineering. He co-facilitate several research and educational projects within the Water Harmony network in Europe, North and South America, East Africa, Central and South Asia.
Since the beginning of high school, Agnieszka Cuprys was fascinated by the complexity of chemistry, especially its interconnection with surrounding molecules and living organisms. To better understand these interactions, she ended up taking biotechnology at Gdansk University of Technology (Poland), where my scientific journey began.