The World Water Week has been the annual focal point for global water issues since 1991. It is hosted and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and takes place each year in Stockholm. This year UNESCO-IHE participated at the Water Week that was held from 21 to 27 August. This year's theme 'Responding to Global Changes - Water in an Urbanising World' dealt with many topics related to the work the Institute does with regard to education, research and capacity development.
Videos & Images
See video interviews with the various participants in the Watercube.
See images from the Water Week on the Flickr photostream.
Alumni gathering
All UNESCO-IHE alumni, staff members present and friends of the Institute, were invited to an alumni gathering at the joint UNESCO-IHE & IHP stand (EH 04:31) on Wednesday, 24 August at 17.30 hrs. Of course, alumni that could not attend were welcome to meet up at the stand at any other time during the Water Week as well.
Convening sessions
UNESCO-IHE was one of the conveners of the Seminar on 'Pro-Poor Urban Water and Sanitation Provision: how can it be supported by participation, benchmarking and WOPs' that took place in room K21, on the 22nd of August from 15.30 to 18.45.
UNESCO-IHE was one of the co-convenors of the Asian Development Bank led Seminar entitled 'Focus: Eye on Asia' that took place on the 23nd of August from 9.00 to 17.30.
The Centre for Science and Environment together with the SWITCH project - with UNESCO-IHE as lead partner - were the co-conveners of the Stockholm International Water Institute led workshop entitled 'Need for a Paradigm Shift: New Technologies and New Lifestyles' that took place in room K22 on the 25th of August from 9.00 to 15.30.
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