“Leave no-one behind in rural water supply” has been this year’s thematic focus for the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN). It was the guiding theme for RWSN activities for the World Water Day, the early 2019 RWSN webinar series, blog posts and for the RWSN e-discussion. The theme also mobilised many RWSN partners to put in session proposals for this year’s SIWI World Water Week, and a record number (five) for RWSN as co-convenor were accepted.

Membership of the network continued to grow - from 10,883 to 11,473 between January 2019 and December 2019, an increase of 5%. Further exploration into expanding RWSN’s presence in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was undertaken.