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World Water Day 2017 – Wastewater

World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22. It is a day to focus attention on the key importance of our planet’s freshwater resources and to push for greater recognition of their sustainable management.

Programme Detail

Starts
Mar 22, 2017

Language

English

Start Time:

09:30 GMT

Member fee: $0.00

Standard fee: $0.00

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Description

Each year’s theme is proposed by UN-Water and is part of a broader campaign that highlights the complex role of water in our daily lives. World Water Day is a crucial opportunity to reflect and act.

Panelists

  • Pritha Hariram https://iwa-network.org/people/pritha-hariram/ IWA Manager Water Supply & Sanitation Services
  • Gabriel Eckstein Professor, Law Department, Texas A&M University
  • Matthijs Wessels Junior Member, Scientific Programme Committee, World Water Week 2017
  • Hannah Leckie Policy Analyst, Water Team, OECD
  • John Payne Consultant, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, World Water Development Report

Target Audience

IWA Members interested on Wastewater & sanitation issues. Leading academics and policy specialists

Learning Objectives

– Launch of the 2017 World Water Development Report (WWDR) on ‘Wastewater: The untapped resource’, highlighting the linkages between wastewater and industry – Understanding the urban-rural relationship in water reuse for irrigated agriculture – Emerging threats posed by pharmaceuticals wastes and pollutants in the aquatic environment – Water utilities’ role in managing wastewater – Release of an upcoming OECD report on policy solutions to diffuse pollution sources in wastewater

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