5 topics to watch at Stockholm World Water Week
Wastewater, and how to reduce it, clean it and recycle it, is the theme of this year’s World Water Week conference in Sweden next week. The theme seems especially appropriate as a record number of countries around the world grapple with devastating droughts while seeking to meet the increasing water demands of the world’s growing population.
Thousands of delegates from civil society, government, academia and the private sector are set to gather in Stockholm for the week-long event, which is the largest and longest-running annual conference — now in its 27th year — in the water calendar.
But this year’s conference — organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute — aims to broaden out beyond its traditional realm of water use, sanitation and hygiene, attracting participants from across the development sector — including actors in health, agriculture and energy — and outside of it, including private sector players such as businesses, insurers, financiers and manufacturers.
