The Need for a Research Network

TWRA tries to improve the world by promoting an ecosystem that brings together people and institutions from various fields of knowledge interested in solving water issues with the agents who need or want to encourage impact changes that generate value for society.

We seek to build systemic solutions to complex problems related to water resource management in watersheds as an integrating agent between researchers, government, and civil society. We seek the appropriate solutions in the most correct way possible, involving the stakeholders necessary for a dialogue that enables the implementation of sustainable projects aimed at water resource management. We develop, manage, and implement methodologies, build diagnostics, and propose tools and models for integrated management of aquatic ecosystems involving all social actors (companies, government, and society) problems related to the waters of the Tropical Region. We differentiate ourselves by involving many people and institutions, providing a vast network of expertise, able to offer systemic solutions to complex problems in watersheds and marine environments of the Tropical Region for integrated management of aquatic ecosystems.

The Alliance is formed by a network of people active and concerned with human pressures on natural resources with expertise to address problems transdisciplinary and systemic. We know that managing water resources is urgent, necessary, and fundamental for good Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance and for preserving human life. We do what we do because we are more than an organization and are committed to offering a better and more sustainable future for future generations. TWRA comprises those who care about the water issues of the planet and people who want to generate impact with their knowledge and expertise in this matter. We are not an organization of creators but executors of a better and sustainable future for people. We create alternatives that allow good governance of water resources, providing value generation for society as a whole allowing the sustainable use of water resources while promoting environmental preservation and human development. We are an alliance that unites people, the environment, businesses, and government to build a healthy and sustainable ecosystem. We bring together people, institutions, and knowledge to solve fundamental water-related problems for humanity.

Mission

Preserve access to quality water with sustainability and governance in tropical ecosystems.

View

To be the main interlocutor of systemic solutions related to managing and preserving tropical waters in Brazil and Australia.

Values

Balance: Work for the preservation of water for people and nature. This value values the balance between the environment and human beings seeking to manage the needs of use with the conservation of ecosystems.

Reconnection: Reconnect the human being with the spaces of the waters. This value seeks to improve the understanding of the complexity of river basins to work priority processes for the rehabilitation of water spaces.

Sustainability: Integrate land use with the preservation of access to quality water. This value seeks to guide land use to ensure land occupation without compromising ecosystems, quantity, and quality of access to water.

Security: Reduce conflicts for water. This value promotes stability by developing the capacity of a population to ensure sustainable access to adequate amounts of water of acceptable quality for their livelihoods and their socioeconomic development, along with the preservation of ecosystems. 

Planning: Evaluate and act on changes in time to mitigate possible damages. This value aims to provide information that allows the correct decision-making in the management and implementation of measures that guarantee sustainable access to water and the conservation of the quality and biodiversity of its ecosystem.

Empathy: Transform data into information and information into knowledge. This value seeks the diffusion and access of research information in natural and social sciences for practical decision-making and the effective management of socioecological systems, whether by public or private persons or institutions.

Collaboration: Promote dialogue and cooperation. This value seeks the preservation of ecosystems through qualified information that allows a vision of assertive values to identify the cause-and-effect relationships that will enable the conservation of water resources.

Transparency: Promote access to qualified information and actions that generate impact. This value aims to give access to data, projects, and good practices so that they can be used, studied, and improved by any agent who wants to implement changes that positively impact the management of tropical waters. 

Planning: Evaluate and act on changes in time to mitigate possible damages. This value aims to provide information that allows the correct decision-making in the management and implementation of measures that guarantee sustainable access to water and the conservation of the quality and biodiversity of its ecosystem.