World Water Week

Name: World Water Week
Start: 2018-08-26T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-08-31T00:00:00+02:00
Location: World Water Week

Find out about WASH events in which Helvetas and its partners participate. World Water Week is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. It is organized by SIWI. In 2018, World Water Week will address the theme “Water, ecosystems and human development.”

Location

Tele2 Arena
Arenaslingan 14
Johanneshov / Stockholm

Date

26. to 31. August 2018

World Water Week is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. It is organized by SIWI In 2018, World Water Week will address the theme “Water, ecosystems and human development”. In 2017, over 3,300 individuals and around 380 convening organizations from 135 countries participated in the Week.

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. We believe water is key to our future prosperity, and that together, we can achieve a water wise world.

Meet Helvetas’ water experts at the following events:

We hope to meet you at the Swiss Water Partnership's Folkets Hus Booth #6, or at one of our sessions listed below:

Monday, 27 August, 16.00-17.30 - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation / Swiss Water Partnership / South Pole Group / Helvetas / International Union for Conservation of Nature / World Wide Fund for Nature: Addressing Challenges to Unlock Financing of Nature-based Solutions for Water
Monday, 27 August, 16.00-17.30 - Conservation International / World Wide Fund for Nature / The Nature Conservancy / Helvetas / Water For People / Millennium Water Alliance / IRC / Wetlands International: Freshwater Conservation-WASH integration: high-level and local-level challenges and opportunities
Tuesday, 28 August, 11.00-12.30 - Swiss Water Partnership / CSD Engineers / Caritas Switzerland / Helvetas / WaterLex / Direction Générale de L'Eau Genève / Swiss NGO DRR Platform: Nature-based Solutions for Water: A Smart Approach to Disaster Risk
Wednesday, 29 August, 16.00-16.45 - Caritas Switzerland / Sandec at Eawag / Helvetas / Terre des Hommes / Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation / Swiss Water and Sanitation Consortium / Swiss Red Cross: Blue Schools: Linking WASH in Schools with other SDG6 Targets

More information about the World Water Week programme can be found here.