Stockholm Water Week 2008
An IRC overview of activities at the 2008 Stockholm Water Week.
News from Stockholm Water Week – Friday 22 August 2008
22 Aug 08
The conference is in wind down mode now, and so the post mortems are starting: what did you learn, who did you meet, what work was discussed, what new ideas generated and, overall, was it all worth it?
News from Stockholm Water Week - Thursday 21 August 2008
21 Aug 08
Readers of yesterdays “News from Stockholm” will, hopefully, have picked up on the sense of vitality and re-connection with reality engendered by a number of the presentations at the third day of the 18th Stockholm World Water Week.
Sanitation realities from Stockholm Water Week - Wednesday 20 August 2008
20 Aug 08
Sometimes you can attend a World Water Week, or other such events, and although the topic is about people’s lack of the very basic needs, there is a distance between the nature of the event (delegates in their suits, the comfort of the auditorium, plentiful food and drink, oh and while we’re on the subject, palatial toilets) and the subject matter. This gulf was smashed in at least three different events - yesterday at the World Water Week brought us back to reality. And how.
News from Stockholm Water Week - Tuesday 19th August 2008
19 Aug 08
We are well underway now, Day 2 gone already! Monday (18 August 2008) was the day of the set piece plenaries. You either love this part of the event, or you hate it. In the morning some great folk singing set the scene and the standard welcomes were carried out. There were some superb presentations – His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange and HE Marc Ravolomanana, the President of Madagascar, in two very different ways inspired the bulk of 2,400 registered delegates (the largest ever, in the 18 year history of the World Water Week).
News from Stockholm Water Week - Monday 18th August 2008
19 Aug 08
Stockholm World Water Week got under way on Sunday, with a full programme of seminars and workshops. This year’s gathering reflects the fact that the International Year of Sanitation is in full swing, and so the title Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with special focus on sanitation illustrates that sanitation (and even hygiene?) has made it to the big time, here at least, and for now at least.
