World Water Week in Stockholm
World Water Week 2009 kicks off in Stockholm today with an opening session from top water experts who will set the stage for a week focused on “Responding to Global Changes: Accessing Water for the Common Good.” This meeting, organized annually by the Stockholm International Water Institute, brings together experts, practitioners, and global leaders to share information and develop solutions for the most urgent water-related issues.
This year’s theme, “Accessing Water for the Common Good,” seeks to address the dual problems of the growing demand for water and its increasingly erratic availability. Participants have their work cut out for them: there are currently 884 million people living without access to clean water, and 2.5 billion living without access to adequate sanitation.
We hope to hear from partners that are attending on the week’s progress.
To learn more about this year’s program, check out the full list of sessions here.
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We’re also looking forward to live reporting from the conference.
So far Twitter has been a good source of news and referrals – for example, this morning @WaterWired sent out a good reference, Peter Gleik of Pacific Institute reporting for the SF Chronicle: http://tinyurl.com/n4zchp.
And the World Water Week website is providing PDFs of the daily bulletin, which covers the daily news from panels, speakers, etc.
As a short introduction to water issues – we (explore.org) today released a short compilation video that brushes upon topics such as the shortage in India, the Three Gorges Dam project in China, and melting icebergs in the Arctic.
It’s on several video-sharing sites, but here’s the link to the YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5H0wCs3k4g