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World Water Week | 20 - 27 August 2011
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From 20 to 27 of August 2011, the World Water Week will take place in Stockholm, Sweden under the overarching theme "Water in an Urbanising World".
The World Water Week in Stockholm, organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute, is the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development.
UN-Water will jointly organize several seminars and events, some listed below.
Regional Lessons on Urban Water: A UN-Water Stakeholder Dialogue to Address Capacity Development and Communication Needs
17:45 - 18:45 | August 22nd
Convenor: UN-Water
Water operators, experts, and other stakeholders from regions around the world will discuss challenges and solutions and examples of solutions and responses to increase access to improved water quality/ sanitation in urban settings. Open discussions, adaptation of regional best practices, and responses/ actions will be key points of the dialogue.
Striking WASH Communication: Urban Water in Depth
17:45 - 18:45 | August 23rd
Convenor: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), The UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) and Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
Striking cases of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) communications in cities, peri-urban areas and informal settlements will be presented and discussed. How have communications and information sharing led to improved WASH services? What is the impact of media, marketing, public relations and advocacy? How can it be measured?
World Water Day 2012. Water and Food Security: Call for Solution
09:00 - 12:30 | August 24th
Convenor: UN-Water / FAO
The World Water Day in 2012 is intended to draw the international attention on the relationships between water & food security. "Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life" and water is one of the fundamental input factor to the food production.
Food security has been raising the international political agenda following the peak prices of 2008 and the financial crisis of 2009. Since then, the raising commodity price level continued volatility have destabilized food security in several countries. Future population growth, urbanization, changing diets and development pressure on land and water (including resources allocated to biofuel production) and energy cost increase are all conducive to a progressive and severe water scarcity that will in turn undermine the food security. At the same time, climate changes are expected to impact the most food insecure populations first.
The Workshop will address the status and prospects for food security and will illustrate the water-related implications. A call for solutions will be brought into discussion with the audience and will befurther animated by a panel of experts. It is envisaged that the conclusions of the Seminar will provide key messages and promising solutions to form the basis of the campaign for the World Water Day 2011, coordinated by FAO on behalf of UN-Water members and partners.
Chair: Mr. Alexander Müller (Director, Natural Resources and Environment Department, FAO Rome)
Co-Chair: Ms. Alice Aureli (UNESCO/IHP)
Moderator: Mr. Johan Kuylenstierna (Stockholm Environmental Institute)
Rapporteur: Ms. Domitille Vallee, (Land and Water Division, FAO, Rome)
09:00 Welcome and Introduction. Mr. Adeel Zafar, Chair UN-Water, UNU Canada
09:10 Water and Food Security: Feeding the world in a sustainable way. Mr. Alexander Müller, Director, Natural Resources and Environment Department, FAO Rome
09:30 Water and Food Security: Which solutions? Mr. Tony Allan, King's College London
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Panel and Audience debate
The debate will start with short statements made by the panelists, representing different stakeholder perspectives (e.g., farmers, private and food-chain companies, scientific research, environment, youth, diets and nutrition specialists) and expressing opposing views about solutions addressing water and food security (e.g., innovation vs tradition, intensification vs greener agriculture, small-holder vs large-commercial farming, increasing food production vs reducing food waste and adopting sustainable diets, food import vs self sufficiency; present vs future generations). This will provide discussion points to the Audience that will further intervene into, and enrich, the debate. The moderator will ease the dialog between Audience and Panelists. The debate should be seen as a highly interactive platform for discussion, bringing-in a whole set of different voices that will provide key messages for the WWDay 2012.
Panelists: Tony Allan (King's College); Representative "Federation of Swedish Farmers"; Saba Loftus (International Council of Youth); Alice Bouman-Dentener (President Women for Water Partnership); Mr. Jan Lundqvist (SIWI); Kebede Ayele (Director IDE-Ethiopia; Value Chain Development); Thomas Farrell (Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska); Alice Aureli (UNESCO/IHP); Representative "ICID"; Lifeng Li (WWF); Julia Bucknall (Water Anchor, World Bank); Mohamed Ait Kadi (Chair Technical Advisory Committee, GWP); Jorge Mora Portuguez (Freshwater Action Network for Central America (tbc); A chef (tbc); ...and maybe more.
12:00 Summary and Conclusion
12:20 Closure
Download the event flyer 
Focus: Water in a Green Economy
09:00 - 15:30 | August 25th
Convenor: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), UN-Water and German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
The notion of green economy as "one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities (UNEP, 2010)" is the centre-piece of this seminar. This transition to clean and green growth is closely tied to opportunities to develop renewable forms of energy for expanding cities, populations and wealth worldwide. Laying the foundation for this shift will require deeper understanding and innovative approaches to manage the core components on which this economy is to be built: water, energy and food. These issues are linked: water is needed for almost all forms of energy production; moving and treating water uses energy; and producing food takes both. Explicit strategies to build synergies between water, energy and food security are needed to stimulate a green economy, reduce poverty and minimise our impact on ecosystems. This seminar will explore which strategies and policies are needed, how they relate to concrete action on the ground and what roles different stakeholders can play.
The outcomes from the seminar are aimed squarely at positioning the water-energy-food nexus as a central dimension in the 2012 Rio+20 summit.
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