2009-11-03 08:33 Governments, UN agencies, international NGOs and civil society advocates gathered at a Water Day in Barcelona today, to urge negotiators to consider the critical role that water plays in climate change adaptation. This was a respons to the fact that the latest iteration of the negotiating text on adaptation has deleted any clear references to water and its management.
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2009-08-17 19:40 The 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm formally opened this morning with a plenary session addressing the week's central theme of Responding to Global Changes: Accessing Water for the Common Good. Most of the more than 2000 participants now gathered in Stockholm were on hand to hear leaders in science, government, and civil society challenge the world to think in new ways about the role of water.
2009-08-07 07:00 The 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm will open August 16 with a weeklong agenda focused on the converging challenges that characterise the world's growing water crisis. More than 2000 experts and leaders from all major sectors will join UN executives and national ministers to address a range of topics centered on the theme of Responding to Global Changes: Accessing Water for the Common Good.
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2009-08-20 18:30 Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International, received the Stockholm Water Prize tonight at a Royal Ceremony for his wide-ranging work in the sanitation field to improve public health, advance social progress, and improve human rights in his home nation and other countries. Assembeled experts from World Water Week call inadequate sanitation humanity's most urgent, yet solvable crisis.
2009-08-17 18:42 SIWI introduced a new report developed to serve as a primer on transboundary water management. Produced with support from The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the report challenges the international water community to integrate new conceptual thinking in the field with lessons learned from transboundary water basins around the world.
