ISF’s contribution to this year’s World Water Week includes an important session on financing water, sanitation and hygiene projects.
World Water Week (WWW) 2023 focuses on innovation at a time of unprecedented challenges. Organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), WWW started in 1991 and has since evolved into the leading yearly summit on worldwide water concerns.
The theme for the year, Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World, invites us to rethink how we manage water. Which ideas, innovations, and governance systems will we need in a more unstable and water scarce world?
World Water Week draws a remarkably diverse crowd each year from over 130 nations, uniting scientists, UN experts, activists, entrepreneurs, politicians, students, business representatives, and more. They share a common dedication to tackling significant issues like the climate crisis, poverty, and biodiversity loss.
In this year’s line-up, researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Future (ISF) will present at five different sessions exploring a range of topics from the intrinsic link between climate change and sanitation to water and food security in the Pacific.
The sessions include:
Mobilizing Innovations: taking action on climate resilient sanitation
Sustainable cost-recovery: fundamental for equitable, sustained sanitation services
Seeds for Sustainable Solutions – Assessing Transformation in WASH
Water and food security in the Pacific
Monitoring WASH services with a gender focus.
ISF Research Directors Juliett Willetts and Naomi Carrard will lead ‘Sustainable cost-recovery: fundamental for equitable, sustained sanitation services’, a session that explains why smart financing is necessary to cover the full life-cycle costs of providing universal sanitation and identifies the current economic barriers to achieving SDG6.2.
Read more about the SIWI World Water Week 2023 conference here.