The IWA Development Congress and Exhibition provides a unique opportunity to signpost best practices, applied research and enabling policies to meet the water and sanitation challenges of today and tomorrow in an increasingly urbanizing world. The learning outcomes from the 2nd IWA Development Congress and Exhibition in 2011 reaffirmed some our traditional understandings but also challenged conventional thinking about how we better prepare ourselves for an uncertain future.

While the world, and Asia in particular, continues to feel the increasing effects of climate change and urbanization, the need to create and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to our water challenges becomes more pressing. The 5th IWA-ASPIRE Conference and Exhibition will bring together water experts, academicians and practitioners from Asia-Pacific to share and discuss best practices and proven applications to solve the water problems in highly urbanized environments in Asia.

This Initiative aims to set-up a multi-stakeholder network to advance on the global water governance agenda. It will encompass the establishment of a Policy Forum, the creation of an International Observatory on water governance, and a Web Portal to share good governance practices across a wide range of public, private and not-for-profit actors at different levels, within and outside the water community.

The year 2013 will mark the 6th anniversary of Korea's largest conference focused on green industries, Global Green Hub Korea. The conference will include the Green Partnership Plaza; the Global Green Forum; a series of seminars introducing opportunities for global green projects; and the Global Green Tech Exhibition. In particular, Global Green Hub Korea 2013 will be held in Songdo, Incheon to welcome and celebrate the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Secretariat, scheduled to open in 2013.

The objective of “ Water Management In India-2013” conference to help understand new policies, and updates on National Water policy, increasing water use efficiency by 20% bring policymakers and stakeholders on a single platform, understand existing and potential opportunities under PPP and other possible solutions.

he Arab Water Week is a high-pro­file international and regional event promoted to attract decision makers and water management practitioners and professional organizations internationally and in the MENA region. It was ­firstly launched in Amman, Jordan in December 2010 and organized by the Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) in partnership with the Arab Ministerial Water Council (AMWC) and the Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI). The second Arab Water Week will present ACWUA’s second international conference and exhibition bringing new partnership with the IWRM...

The World Water Council is co-organizing two events for this year's edition of World Water Week. 7th World Water Forum Workshop: Implementation & Sharing Sunday, 1 September 2013 14:00 - 17:30 SWWW venue - Stockholm International Fairs - Room B8 More information and program This workshop aims to receive a wide range of input and to integrate stakeholder contributions into the preparatory process through joint cooperation, following presentation of the results of the 7th World Water Forum Kick-off meeting. Hosted by the World Water Council, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport-...