New beginings are always exciting if not thrilling. You can imagine the carnivore mood we’re in at Waterpoint with the successful launch of the first-ever journalistic water magazine in this region.
This is not your usual magazine. It captures the very essence and spirit of water as a critical component of human survival. If you like, Waterpoint connects the divine nature of water as a life sustainer, to society, policies, philosophies and actions surrounding it.
We’re proud to publish a prestigious specialised industry magazine where all that’s important about water is contained. Waterpoint is the public square where the sober discourse happens. Our efforts in research and analysis sets this publication apart. Waterpoint will interrogate policies, it will celebrate every single success story that’s coming from the sector. This is the platform too to write about great people who are revolutionising our water world. But it’s not all about pampering! Like any other respectable and independent journalistic product, Waterpoint will not shy from holding players in the industry accountable.
Today, we at Waterpoint are making a pact with you that the magazine will be worth your read and money. And you can hold us on this word – no fights!
Talking of fights, when I was growing up in the countryside, so precious was water that you risked heavy punishment should you waste. As children of a disciplinarian mum, we, the boys, fetched water from the streams just like girls, something we least fancied. But mummy could hear none of our grumbles. The journeys to the stream were full of drama, laughter and fights over water. Water fights by the riverside is akin to the ethnic or inter-state conflict on water. Our main article explores how nations are teetering to the brink of possible water-triggerd wars.
But all is not gloom. Libya crafted a grand water scheme in the desert. And this is a pointer that indeed governments can meet the water needs of their people.
And then, there is this little issue of the Nile. It’s refusing to go. Find out how the Nile politics will shape up after Meles and Mubarak.
After the Nile, you can take a splash in our lighter pages ahead. Life’s wonderful with Waterpoint. Let’s all toast to new beginings.
Three cheers!
Wamanji
water@rococo.co.ke/ www.rococo.co.ke