Stockholm World Water Week 2015
The World Water Week in Stockholm 23-28 August: Water for Development
This year marks a milestone in World Water Week’s development. In 1995, the first Water symposium was held for a hundred scientist and researchers. Now it is grown out into the world’s most important annual water meeting, with more than 3500 participants from over 140 countries.
This year; a Silver Jubilee, with the thematic scope ‘Water for Development. 2015 is the target year for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). The aim of halving poverty will not be fully reached. Almost two billion people will still lack access to safe water and about 2,5 billon people lack access to basic sanitation. More than a billion people will still be without electricity and almost one billion people will go to bed hungry. The challenge remains for the world community in 2015 to formulate, commit to and urgently pursue a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’S).
Water is central to this challenge. Our lives and livelihoods, along with other living creatures, depend on water. Without it we cannot sustain a productive economy to live healthy lives, produce food, energy and other basic necessities and commodities. This is why World Water Week in Stockholm focuses on these issues; 2015 the year for renewed global commitments.
To speak out the voices of our members, our Steering Committee members Lesha Witmer and Marjon Verkleij, and our founding member of NetWWater Kusum Athukorola have attended several events during the World Water Week.
The World Water Week in Stockholm 23-28 August: Water for Development
This year marks a milestone in World Water Week’s development. In 1995, the first Water symposium was held for a hundred scientist and researchers. Now it is grown out into the world’s most important annual water meeting, with more than 3500 participants from over 140 countries.
This year; a Silver Jubilee, with the thematic scope ‘Water for Development. 2015 is the target year for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). The aim of halving poverty will not be fully reached. Almost two billion people will still lack access to safe water and about 2,5 billon people lack access to basic sanitation. More than a billion people will still be without electricity and almost one billion people will go to bed hungry. The challenge remains for the world community in 2015 to formulate, commit to and urgently pursue a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’S).
Water is central to this challenge. Our lives and livelihoods, along with other living creatures, depend on water. Without it we cannot sustain a productive economy to live healthy lives, produce food, energy and other basic necessities and commodities. This is why World Water Week in Stockholm focuses on these issues; 2015 the year for renewed global commitments.
To speak out the voices of our members, our Steering Committee members Lesha Witmer and Marjon Verkleij, and our founding member of NetWWater Kusum Athukorola have attended several events during the World Water Week.
