World Water Week: SEI focuses on climate change vulnerability, sanitation and water management

Written by Sturle hauge Simonsen

Wednesday, 05 August 2009 06:56

SEI's water resources group and sustainable sanitation programme EcoSanRes will play a key part during the upcoming World Water Week, an annual meeting place for discussing the planet’s most urgent water-related issues.

EcoSanRes, through its partnership in the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), invites you to a side event on August 16th to showcase its current and future activities.

SuSanA partners will introduce the network, discuss its roadmap and highlight results from several thematic working groups. The aim is to inform interested parties to become active in this wide ranging alliance. The side event takes place August 16th between 17.45-18.45 CET.

Seminar on productive sanitation
Through its collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Centre Régional pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement à faible coût (CREPA), SEI will host a seminar on productive sanitation, with a special focus on the IFAD-funded productive sanitation project in Niger which shows how agricultural productivity can be a driver for sanitation.

The seminar takes place on August 19th between 12:45-13:45 CET.

Convened together with Duke University and Wetlands International, SEI will also hold a seminar on climate change vulnerability in water management. The seminar, which will take place on August 19th between 11.00-12.30 CET, will examine vulnerability, discuss appropriate analytical tools, consider the relevance to the practice of water resources management and explore practical interventions and policy actions.

SEI will also take part in a two-day comprehensive programme covering the latest scientific insights, practical response options, public awareness sessions, political debate and relevant issues beyond the water sector.

The programme, called Water and Climate Focus, builds on previous Water and Climate Days in 2007 and 2008 and is a collaborative effort between many organisations working with various aspects related to water and climate.

Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the World Water Week will take place in the Swedish capital 16-22 August.