World Water Week 2023 has closed with a forward-looking prompt: what’s next? During the event, innovative solutions to water challenges lay in focus. In 2024, the spotlight for the conference will be on transboundary water cooperation with the theme: Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future. World Water Week 2023 saw 15000 participants from 193 countries and territories […]
World Water Week showed how the world can solve the water crisis – Stockholm International Water Institute (siwi.org) SIWI World Water Week 2021 Stockholm (27 August 2021): World Water Week ended on 27 August with a strong message: we have many solutions to fix the water crisis and tackle climate change, but we need political will and […]
During the last week of August, Stockholm hosted World Water Week, where leading experts and decision-makers came to exchange ideas, experiences, encourage innovative thinking and solution building to address urgent, global water challenges such as this year’s topic “Water and waste: Reduce and Reuse”. This year’s theme, illustrated the importance of water in the circular economy […]
World Water Week closed on Friday, concluding that water must be recognized as the enabler of successful implementation of the entire 2030 Agenda as well as the Paris Climate Agreement. “Water – the lifeline of our planet – will be needed to achieve nearly every Sustainable Development Goal, and to face the challenges that climate […]
Water for sustainable growth will be at the top of the agenda when world leaders, development professionals and water experts gather in Stockholm from 28 August to 2 September for Stockholm Water Week. The 2016 theme for World Water Week is water for sustainable growth – water and the ongoing migration crisis, and several other […]