Stockholm World Water Week is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the conference is an important catalyst for change and attracts leading researchers, decision-makers, companies, and organisations from 130+ countries each year.
In 2021, World Water Week will be a full-scale digital event, with five days of exciting content and sessions convened by world-leading institutions from many different fields. With a theme of Building Resilience Faster, this year’s event will focus on solutions to address climate change and other water-related challenges. WaterAid is facilitating or taking part in a number of sessions this year, across such themes as gender, climate change, and hygiene and health. Find out more about these sessions in the table below.
How to register
This year, all sessions are free to attend, but you must register first. Once registered and logged into your SIWI account, click on the session titles below to add it to your personalised World Water Week schedule.
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Session title |
Date and time (CEST) |
Theme |
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Self-supply's potential for increased resilience and water security |
23 Aug, |
Water security |
This session will be repeated on 26 Aug, 14.00 - 15.00 |
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23 Aug, |
Equality and inclusion |
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Will the WASH response to COVID-19 strengthen supply chain resilience? |
23 Aug, |
Business and supply chain resilience |
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23 Aug, |
Climate change, |
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23 Aug, |
Hygiene and health |
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Building resilience by challenging social norms: fostering gender-transformative WASH programming |
23 Aug, |
Equality and inclusion |
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24 Aug, |
Climate change |
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Empowering local communities to tackle NTDs, WASH and climate change |
24 Aug, |
Climate change |
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Climate and water quality: building resilience through water safety planning |
24 Aug, |
Climate change, |
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Five years on: WASH4Work business leadership |
25 Aug, |
Business and supply chain resilience |
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The business case for building community resilience in corporate value chains |
25 Aug, |
Business and supply chain resilience |
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Intersectoral cooperation: a catalyst for climate resilience and SDG6 acceleration |
25 Aug, |
Climate change |
This session will be repeated on 26 Aug, 08.00 - 09.00 |
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Accelerating sustainable transformation of the textile sector |
25 Aug, |
Business and supply chain resilience |
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How might we prevent vulnerable groups from being left behind? |
26 Aug, |
Equality and inclusion |
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Putting people first: citizen-centric climate adaptation and mitigation in water |
26 Aug, |
Climate change, |
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Betting on complementarity to achieve universal access to safe water |
27 Aug, |
Water security |
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27 Aug, |
Sanitation |
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27 Aug, |
Sanitation |
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Supporting resilient communities through WASH and energy services in healthcare |
27 Aug, |
Hygiene and health |
Resources
COVID-19 has shown how poor sanitation in one part of the world can have rapid and long-lasting impacts in another. In this report, WaterAid shows the economic, environmental and health benefits of investing in WASH
Faced with a global pandemic, climate change and ecosystem collapse, a coalition of governments, businesses, and water, development and climate organisations are working together to increase finance for climate-resilient water sources
In a climate-stressed world, WaterAid calls on companies to invest in WASH in the workplaces, supply chains and communities their workers live in to ensure a prosperous workforce and robust, sustainable businesses
WaterAid’s five-year sustainable WASH initiative is aimed at addressing the long-term challenges of service and behaviour sustainability, and ensuring universal access
Expert opinion
Access to clean water is vital to climate change resilience. As WaterAid's work in Burkina Faso shows, developing robust and reliable water, sanitation and hygiene systems is our best defence against climate uncertainty
How much will it cost to achieve water and sanitation for all by 2030? Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an accelerating climate crisis and rising global poverty, a new report by End Water Poverty and WaterAid sets out the financial challenge
Sanitation workers are a vital workforce, yet they are often denied their rights to safe work. How can working conditions be improved, if authorities know nothing about them?
Healthy waterways and sustainable access to WASH are key to business and supply chain resilience. Here are practical steps companies can take to boost resilience and join the sustainable fashion movement
Top image: Parul Begum, 35, stands in front of the household rainwater harvesting system she installed beside her poultry farm. Shibbati Poshchim Para, Ward 9, Paikgacha, Khulna, Bangladesh. September 2018.