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Topics

Themes

Isuues

Overarching Theme

Adapting to climate change

Global Changes and Risk Management

Providing Water for Sustainable Development

Bridging
Divides
for Water

Migration and changing land uses, human settlements and water

Mitigating disasters

Ensuring water, sanitation and hygiene for all
- ensuring adequate infrastructure
- protecting public health in the short term

Advancing Human Development and the MDGs

Water for energy, energy for water

Water and food for ending poverty and hunger

Multiple uses of water e.g. water supply and irrigation

Basin management and transboundary water cooperation

Managing and Protecting Water Resources and their Supply Systems to Meet Human and Environmental Needs

Ensuring adequate water resources and storage infrastructure to meet agricultural, energy and urban needs

Preserving natural ecosystems

Managing and protecting surface, ground and rainwater

Implementing the right to water and sanitation for improved access

Governance and Management

Enabling Mechanisms for Development

Improving performance through regulatory approaches

Ethics, transparency, and empowerment of stakeholders

Optimizing public and private roles in water services

Institutional arrangements for efficient and effective water management

Sustainable means of financing local water authorities and systems

Finance

Pricing strategies to ensure fairness and sustainability

Pro-poor policies and strategies

Education and capacity-building strategies

Education, Knowledge and Capacity Building

Water science and technology: appropriate and innovative solutions for the 21st Century

Using professional networks and associations to strengthen the water sector

Topics	Themes	Isuues	Overarching Theme
Adapting to climate change	Global Changes and Risk Management	Providing Water for Sustainable Development	Bridging Divides for Water
Migration and changing land uses, human settlements and water
Mitigating disasters
Ensuring water, sanitation and hygiene for all - ensuring adequate infrastructure - protecting public health in the short term	Advancing Human Development and the MDGs
Water for energy, energy for water
Water and food for ending poverty and hunger
Multiple uses of water e.g. water supply and irrigation
Basin management and transboundary water cooperation	Managing and Protecting Water Resources and their Supply Systems to Meet Human and Environmental Needs
Ensuring adequate water resources and storage infrastructure to meet agricultural, energy and urban needs
Preserving natural ecosystems
Managing and protecting surface, ground and rainwater
Implementing the right to water and sanitation for improved access	Governance and Management	Enabling Mechanisms for Development
Improving performance through regulatory approaches
Ethics, transparency, and empowerment of stakeholders
Optimizing public and private roles in water services
Institutional arrangements for efficient and effective water management
Sustainable means of financing local water authorities and systems	Finance
Pricing strategies to ensure fairness and sustainability
Pro-poor policies and strategies
Education and capacity-building strategies	Education, Knowledge and Capacity Building
Water science and technology: appropriate and innovative solutions for the 21st Century
Using professional networks and associations to strengthen the water sector