Welcome to SIWI’s new website and visual identity
Water is inextricably linked to the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate change, poverty and biodiversity loss. To help more people understand the role of water and the solutions that exist, SIWI is launching a new website and an updated visual identity.
Over the past 30 years, SIWI has played an important role in raising decision-makers’ awareness of the importance of water and forming an international water community. Compared to when we started in 1991, many more people share our concern over freshwater management and are eager to learn about the solutions that exist.
To meet a growing demand for water expertise, SIWI is launching a new website and will start to roll out an updated visual identity. This includes an updated logotype for SIWI as well as sub brands such as the Stockholm Water Prize, Stockholm Junior Water Prize, Swedish Water House and, later, World Water Week.
Both the website and the new look are designed to be useful tools for the change we want to see. In the next 30 years, the world needs to significantly improve how water is understood, valued and managed. At SIWI we aim to drive this transformation, as an expert in water governance and through our ability to bring many stakeholders together.
On the website you find accessible information on different water-related topics, from water governance and water diplomacy to sustainable landscapes management, poverty reduction, climate resilience and much more. We will also share insights on SIWI’s research, projects and other activities. Our ambition is for the website to be a hub for water knowledge.
“We are of course proud of what SIWI has achieved since we started 30 years ago, but we also know that we need to see much faster transformations in the next three decades. Our website, the way we look and speak, should contribute to this so that more people understand that we need to change how we use and manage water,” says Henrika Thomasson, Director of Communications at SIWI.
“We must communicate about water in a new way, so that everyone understands how fundamental water management is for our future. SIWI has a unique responsibility as an expert on improving water governance, especially in developing economies.”
The new website is launched in the lead-up to the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where SIWI will have a strong presence. Henrika Thomasson sees this as one example of the need for a broad, inclusive movement for water to accelerate change.
“We must communicate about water in a new way, so that everyone understands how fundamental water management is for our future. SIWI has a unique responsibility as an expert on improving water governance, especially in developing economies. With our new website and visual identity, our knowledge and resources will be more visible and more accessible. Looking ahead at 2050, we need to create a broad community for freshwater,” she says.
SIWI dates back to 1991 when a scientific seminar and an award were launched as part of a public water festival in Stockholm. Today the two have evolved into the leading global water conference, World Water Week, and the Stockholm Water Prize, widely considered the water world’s Nobel Prize. SIWI has become a distinguished expert in water governance – from sanitation and water resources management to water diplomacy. We create knowledge, develop capacity, and offer policy advice to countries, communities, and companies.
