2011 World Water Week

World Water Week provides a unique forum for the exchange of views, experiences and practices between the scientific, business, policy and civic communities. It focuses on new thinking and positive action toward water-related challenges and their impact on the world’s environment, health, climate, economic and poverty reduction agendas. It does so by:

• Exploring the interconnected challenges of water, society, environment and economic vitality, building capacity and charting action toward solutions.
• Fostering proactive partnerships and alliances between individuals and organisations from different fields of expertise.
• Highlighting ground-breaking research, best practices and innovative policy work by stakeholders and experts around the world and from multiple disciplines.
• Reviewing the implementation of actions, commitments and decisions in international processes and by different stakeholders in response to the challenges.
• Awarding outstanding achievements and outstanding individuals.

By harnessing and linking best practices, scientific understanding, policy and decision-making for concrete action, World Water Week in Stockholm moves beyond rhetoric to provide real answers to the world’s water, environment and development challenges. The perspective is global, but the context is attuned to differences and similarities between regions of the world, phases of development, political systems and climatic conditions.