We convene countries, corporates, nonprofits and communities to discuss, deliberate and decide the future of water, backed by a global registry of verified data and one shared protocol for reporting it.
Hosted at the Center for Social Value Creation, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. A brainchild of Dr Subramanya Kusnur.
Water is fast replacing oil at the centre of global power. Yet the industry that manages it stays fragmented, its data unverified, its rules a patchwork that fits no one.
Every country, sector and community measures water differently, if at all. Policy is written one size fits all. Capital cannot find the projects that work.
Water Parliament exists to bring consensus: to recognise water as an economic asset, and to build the shared language the world still lacks.
Water Parliament is a complete democratic process. Every stakeholder, from a national government to a village community, has a seat. Together they set the emerging agenda for water sustainability, then turn it into standards the whole sector can adopt, and data the whole world can trust.
Each chamber takes on one part of the water problem. Members join the chambers that matter to them.
The nucleus of the Parliament: one verified home for the world's water data, aggregating today's fragmented reporting frameworks into a single taxonomy, the Abu Dhabi Protocol.
Registry infrastructure by Neer VazhvuWater behaves differently in the Gulf, in Africa, in Europe, in cold and in agrarian nations. The Parliament builds characteristics and protocols specific to each, not one rule for all.
Agriculture, textiles, automobiles and software each consume water differently. The Parliament defines a water resource efficiency index and reporting taxonomy for each sector.
Recycle and reuse at the core. Stakeholders that meet verified reuse standards earn water reuse certificates, water credits, building toward a tradable circularity index for every country.
Water security, water rights and water control are now questions of geopolitics. The Parliament is the table where they are discussed, with the convening power to bring the right people to it.
The world reports water in a hundred incompatible ways. The Parliament is aggregating them into a single shared taxonomy, the Abu Dhabi Protocol, so that for the first time a regulator, a corporate and a community speak the same language, and policymakers can build forward-looking climate policy on data that finally lines up.
Working registry surfaces from Neer Vazhvu, the Parliament's platform and technology partner: rivers, reservoirs, monitoring, pressures and governance, with every number traced to its source. Choose a basin: the Cauvery on either side of the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu border, or Chennai's rivers. This is the infrastructure the global water registry builds on.
Circularity is not only an environmental goal. It is a financial one. Here is how a litre of reused water becomes capital for the grassroots.
Registering puts you on the floor. Contribute and access verified data, join the chamber that matters to you, help shape the Abu Dhabi Protocol, and stand first in line for water credits as the market opens.
Take your seat in the Parliament and help write them.
The Parliament is led by a Governing Council and run by a Secretariat, with the convening power to bring the water value chain to one table.
Hosted at the Center for Social Value Creation, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA.
A brainchild of Dr Subramanya Kusnur, convening a fragmented industry toward consensus and a shared future for water.