World Water Week is the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Organized by SIWI, this year, World Water Week will address the theme ‘water and waste: reduce and reuse’. 2016, saw more than 3,200 individuals and around 330 convening organizations from 130 countries participated in the events.
The World Water Week 2017 programme consists of more than 200 sessions of different formats and covers a range of topics. such as the implementation and monitoring of the SDGs; sanitation and health linked to wastewater; financing; integrated urban water management; food related to nutrition; water in relation to conflict and fragile states and more.
Understanding the gender dimension of water and waste Programme 11.00-17.30, 27 August, NL 357
With a welcome and moderation by Lesha Witmer, Women for Water Partnership, Netherlands, Soroptimist International President, Mariet Verhoef-Cohen will speak at this event on the connection between SDG 5 – Gender Equality and SDG 6 – Clean Water and Sanitation.
Additional speakers include Jack Moss, Executive Director, AquaFed, France; Khaoula Lamzouri, National Office for Electricity and Potable Water (ONEE), Morocco; Neekita Sharma, Government Department of Education, Jammu and Kashmir, India; Prof. Stefan Ulhenbrook, coordinator, UNESCO-WWAP, Italy; Maren Heuvels, BORDA, Germany, followed by a Q&A and vote on recommendations/ response from public.
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