The Water Integrity Network (WIN) is the leading global research and advocacy partnership dedicated to clean water governance.

WIN focuses on corruption risk prevention and awareness raising, knowledge sharing and technical assistance for integrity since 2006.

We champion integrity to improve water and sanitation management and service delivery for all, including the poorest and most marginalised.

By addressing corruption in water and sanitation, together we can transform water and sanitation management and service delivery to reach everyone, including the most marginalised.

We work as a global research and advocacy partnership, focusing on:

• awareness raising for integrity,
• training and knowledge sharing on clean water governance,
• technical assistance to water and sanitation organisations, to assess integrity risks and prevent corruption.

​Join and support us to ensure transparency, accountability, participation, and anti-corruption shake up the water and sanitation sectors for good.

In Tuesday, March 5th, the Water Integrity Network and Uhuru Productions, with support from Brot für die Welt and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, invite you to this free film showing on Day Zero in Cape Town: Capturing Water. 

Capturing Water brings fresh insights into water activism and hope from Cape Town, South Africa, and a lesson for water activists everywhere facing major climate-related ravages in their cities.
The film shows the human realities of water scarcity and the decisions and empty promises that lead to day zero scenarios.

Capturing Water introduces different activists as they work tirelessly for their communities’ rights to water and life: a working class activists mobilising against water cut-offs without the dignity of discussion, an activist farmer litigating to stop city plans to cement over an aquifer that provides affordable food to thousands of people, and a suburban activist tirelessly engaging the city to stop sewage flowing into life-giving wetlands.

Afterwards WIN will moderate a discussion on water justice, city politics in times of climate change, and the dynamics behind “day zero” announcements. Seating is limited, please RSVP here to attend. 

Tuesday, March 25, at 5:00 pm.
Kino der Kulturbrauerei, Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin

We hope to see you there!

The studio Urban Fibers investigates and implements new paradigms for the production of sustainable and regenerative textiles. In collaboration with regional producers, they have been remanufacturing local cotton from discarded t-shirts, a valuable raw material, to produce upcycled yarns. Designed for the use in locally existing textile infrastructure of digital weaving, knitting and braiding machines, these yarns can replace virgin cotton up to 100%. The results are vibrant and sophisticated textiles that can be recycled again.

Every week, 15 million second-hand garments from the global North arrive in Accra (Ghana) to be sold at Kantamanto, a vital hub for circularity, reuse and repair. Despite the local efforts to bring these clothes back to life, 40% of them remain unsellable and are directly landfilled, polluting the waterways and the complete coastal line of Accra. To top an already unjust situation, in January 2025 a devastating fire destroyed Kantamanto and left more than 8.000 market workers without a livelihood. Urban Fibers is hosting an event on March 1st to fundraise for Kantamanto and to bring attention to the problem of waste colonialism.

Last year Urban Fibers spent two months working in Accra, Ghana, processing market discards from the global north to make upcycled products. They worked with a young Ghanaian team of designers who are making a living by using the imported waste as their material and diverting it from the landfill. Back in Berlin, Urban Fibers wants to share the story of your clothes with you. Let’s give voice to the people processing our waste behind the scenes of the fast fashion industry, one of the most polluting on earth. But also to illustrate how we are all intertwined in our fight for a more just and safer future.

At our fundraising event on 1st March, there will be a discussion with Circular Berlin about the wasteful textile industry. We will also connect live with The Or Foundation, the charity behind the fire relief fund, that has been supporting the community of Kantamanto and providing remediation efforts since 2011. They will update us about the state of rebuild and about the current challenges of the workers. There will also be Urban Fibers’ goodies on sale, interactive activities, food and drinks and a clothing exchange corner. We will end the event with live guitar music and a DJ set to keep our spirits high.

All proceeds from the event will go directly to the fire relief fund of the Or Foundation.

Fundraising event for the workers at Kantamanto in Accra, Ghana
Date: Saturday, 1st of March
Time: 16:00-23:00 h
Location: C*Space Berlin – Langhansstrasse 86, 13086 Berlin

Entrance to the event is free, donations for the fundraising will be collected at the door

Accessibility: The space is unfortunately not accessible on wheelchair

For any accessibility requests please contact hello@urbanfibers.org