2009 World Water Week in Stockholm

Tid 16 Augusti 2009 – 22 Augusti 2009

Plats Stockholm International Fairs (Stockholmsmässan). Mässvägen 1, Älvsjö, Stockholmsmässan AB, 125 80 STOCKHOLM

Since 1991, the World Water Week in Stockholm has been the annual meeting place for the planet’s most urgent water-related issues. 2500 leaders from government, academia, business and government from 130 countries and 170 collaborating organisations are expected in 2009. The theme for 2009 is Responding to Global Changes: Accessing Water for the Common Good. Learn more www.worldwaterweek.org.

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  • Media Invitation: 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm, August 16-22

    Journalists working with legitimate media are invited to register for press accreditation at the 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm, August 16-22, the leading annual global meeting place for water issues. 2,500 experts and decision makers from over 130 countries and 170 organisations are expected. Accredited Media can register with the press registration form at www.worldwaterweek.org/media.

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    Sveriges blivande vattenexperter har korats. Idag, den 24 maj, mottog de Svenska Juniorvattenpriset. Vinnarna blev Åsa Omstedt, Anthony Abdulahad och Lisa Chung, elever från De Geergymnasiet i Norrköping, som belönades för sitt projekt om buteljerat vatten. De kommar att representera Sverige i den internationella finalen, Stockholm Junior Water Prize, i augusti.

  • Indisk sanitetspionjär och samhällsreformator tilldelas 2009 års Stockholm Water Prize

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  • Pressregistrering öppen för 2009 års World Water Week

    Var med då politiska ledare, internationella organisationer, företag och forskare från hela världen åter samlas i Stockholm för att hitta gemensamma lösningar på internationella vatten- och utvecklingsfrågor. Årets World Water Week går av stapeln mellan den 16 och 22 augusti.

  • Private sector takes up challenge of balancing profits and responsible stewardship at 2009 World Water Week

    Private sector leaders meeting at the World Water Week addressed the rising significance of water as a strategic business concern. Trojan Technologies, Canada, was given the 2009 Stockholm Industry Water Award at a ceremony. Leading environmental and business organisations jointly released the report Water for Business: Initiatives Guiding Sustainable Water Management in the Private Sector."

  • Helsingforskommissionen får Swedish Baltic Sea Water Award 2009

    Helsingforskommissionen (HELCOM) har tilldelats 2009 års Swedish Baltic Sea Water Award. Priset annonserades av biståndsminister Gunilla Carlsson idag under Världsvattenveckan i Stockholm. HELCOM arbetar med att skydda Östersjöns marina miljö från föroreningar genom mellanstatligt samarbete mellan Danmark, Estland, EU, Finland, Tyskland, Lettland, Litauen, Polen, Ryssland och Sverige.

  • Helsinki Commission wins 2009 Swedish Baltic Sea Water Award

    Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation announces HELCOM as the winner of the 2009 Swedish Baltic Sea Water Award. HELCOM works to protect the marine environment of the Baltic Sea through intergovernmental co-operation between Denmark, Estonia, the EU, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden.

  • Climate, human health, conflict and cooperation take focus at 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm

    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.

  • 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm Press Kit: Week opens August 16-22

    The World Water Week press kit helps journalists cover a wide range of water related issues. It contains story ideas, thematic backgrounders, facts and statistics. In the kit you will also find experts available for interview and a guide to the media services available on site in Stockholm.

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    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.

  • Indian sanitation innovator and social reformer receives Stockholm Water Prize

    Assembeled experts from World Water Week call inadequate sanitation humanity's most urgent, yet solvable crisis. 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.

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