In the second year of implementation of the 2030 Agenda the World Water Week 2017 focuses on a key challenge for which two Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) have set ambitious targets: SDG 6, target 3: “by 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally”, and SDG 12, target 5: “by 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse”. These are just two of the 169 SDG targets, many of which, along with the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the annual Global Risks Reports launched by the World Economic Forum in Davos, highlight our challenge to achieve sustainable development in a changing world. A circular economy in which water and waste are managed as economic assets is an important part of the solution to this challenge.
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01 sept. 2017
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World Water Week 2017 // Water and Waste – Reduce and Reuse
World Water Week is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. It is organized by SIWI. In 2017, World Water Week will address the theme “water and waste – reduce and reuse”. In 2016, over 3,200 individuals and around 330 convening organizations from 130 countries participated in the Week.
Experts, practitioners, decision-makers, business innovators and young professionals from a range of sectors and countries come to Stockholm to network, exchange ideas, foster new thinking and develop solutions to the most pressing water-related challenges of today. We believe water is key to our future prosperity, and that together, we can achieve a water wise world.
Drottninggatan 71b
Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8-506 16 400
www.stoccc.se 27 Aug - 1 Sep 2017
The Week will address the theme “water and waste – reduce and reuse” from a holistic system perspective, addressing issues and challenges from all parts and countries of the world – low, middle and high income. It will do so by engaging all relevant water-dependent sectors, particularly food and energy, and all relevant stakeholder groups – public, private and civil society – with special attention to gender and age balance.
The theme covers the entire geographical range: upstream to downstream – from source to sea – and both rural and urban. However, with a rapid rate of urbanization, and the concentration of water-waste challenges in dense urban environments, the Week will contribute to the follow-up of the world’s urban summit HABITAT 3 in October 2016 by including a special urban focus.
Where and when
City Conference CentreDrottninggatan 71b
Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8-506 16 400
www.stoccc.se 27 Aug - 1 Sep 2017