Events

World Water Week 2017

From: 27.08.2017 to: 01.09.2017

World Water Week is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Experts, practitioners, decision-makers, business innovators and young professionals from a range of sectors and countries come to Stockholm to network, exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions to the most pressing water-related challenges of today. Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the 2017 World Water Week will address the theme “Water and waste: reduce and reuse”.

The programme consists of more than 200 sessions of different formats and covering a range of subjects. Topics that will be addressed include: the implementation and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals, sanitation and health linked to wastewater, financing, integrated urban water management, food related to nutrition, water in relation to conflict and fragile states and much more. To find those events that will be related to mountains, visit the interactive online programme and search for the keyword “mountain”.

All participants, including speakers and invited participants, are required to register for World Water Week. To follow the event on social media, use the official hashtag #WWWeek

Read more 

Photo: FAO/Thomas Hofer