Water efficiency in the textile industry: Best practice and future directions

In this ninth online seminar, which is jointly organized by GIZ Fabric and Jeanologia, whose mission is to create an ethical, sustainable, and eco-efficient textile & apparel industry through disruptive technologies, we will examine resource efficiency – of doing more and better with less to enable societies to improve allocation of water among competing users keeping in mind future generations. This seminar therefore takes efficiency as a starting point. There is no need to belabour the point that we need to obtain more value with available resources. The question for the textile industry is not whether water efficiency is essential, but how to do it better. Our speakers all have practical experience in water efficiency in the industry and will discuss ways to use water more efficiently and explore what changes we are likely to see in future.

SPEAKERS

Hoang Thanh Nga, Water Stewardship Programme Manager, WWF-Viet Nam

Hoang Thanh Nga promotes water conservation in intensive water-use sectors, including textile, food processing, and industrial parks. She has work experience in sustainable resource management, agriculture value chains, and social and environmental sustainability in the textile and garment sector.

Pepa Silla Casanova, Project Manager of Urban Factories, Jeanologia

Pepa Silla Casanova majored in industrial engineering at Northeastern University, Boston. She is currently Project Manager of Urban Factories at Jeanologia, which is part of the product & technology team. She is focused on developing and implementing technology and new operational models to dehydrate and detoxify the textile industry as well as optimizing overproduction waste.

Raffay Bin Rauf, Senior Manager Compliance, Nishat Chunian Group, Pakistan

Raffay Bin Rauf is a compliance and industrial engineering professional, qualified in the implementation of multiple lean manufacturing methodologies and textile industry compliance requirements. He has presented numerous social, quality, technical, chemical and environmental audits.