Key conferences, meetings, webinars and international days
2018-2028: International Decade for Action: Water for sustainable development
2021-2030: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
WASH discussions: SuSanA Forum | RWSN Dgroups | Yammer: WASH in Schools Network | COVID-19 Hygiene Hub forum
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2021
May 2021
- 23 March - 30 May - [Virtual Event] FINISH Mondial - 2nd Annual SanTech Hackathon: seeking innovations on flood-proof toilet designs
- 03 May - [Webinar] Fostering STI Ecosystems for Impact: Enabling Technologies Advancing Human Infrastructure (Side event UN DESA STI Forum 2021), 09:00 EST | 15:30 CET
- 04 May - [Webinar] Designing During Disruption - Building Healthcare Programs with Communities During COVID-19, 10:00-11:00 EDT | 16:00-17:00 CET
- 05 May - [Event] WHO: World Hand Hygiene Day
- 05 May - [Webinar] Sphere India COVID-19 Academy: COVID-19 appropriate behaviour in 2021, 15:00-17:30 IST | 11:30-14:00 CET
- 06 May - [Webinar] Consultation to improve the Empowerment in WASH Index [Closed event, visit the SEI project web page]
- POSTPONED - 07 May - [Webinar] Cranfield University/RUST project consortium: Rural-urban Sanitation Transitions [register], 16:30 IST | 13:00 CET --> new date pending
- 11-14 May- [Virtual Event] Regional Climate Weeks: Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week
- 11-13 May - [Hybrid Event] Enlit Africa [Formerly African Utility Week and POWERGEN Africa], Cape Town, South Africa
- 13 May - [Webinar] Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP): Regionalization: RCAP's [US] State Policy Recommendations for Water and Wastewater Systems [register], 11:00-13:00 EST | 17:00-19:00 CET
- 13 May - [Webinar] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series - Adaptation & Resilience (with WaterAid), 09:00-10:00 BST | 10:00-11:00 CET
- 16-18 May - [Event] Global Water Summit: Challenging Assumptions, Madrid, Spain
- 21 May - [Webinar] Oxford Talks/REACH: Transformative practice and gender relations in water security projects, 12:30 BST | 13:30 CET [Recording will be published on REACH YouTube channel]
- 22 May - [Event] World Vision Global 6K for Water
- 24-27 May - [Virtual Event] UNICEF, UNFPA & UNESCO: Virtual Symposium on Menstrual Health and Hygiene in West and Central Africa
- 24-28 May - [Virtual Event] Emergency Environmental Health Forum (EEHF) [call for abstracts]
- 24 May - 04 June - [Virtual Event] IWA Digital World Water Congress
- 26-28 May - [Event] WASPA Youth and Women Water & Sanitation Conference 2021: Unlocking potentials of Youth and Women for Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services", Naivasha, Nakuru County, Kenya
- 28 May - [Event] Menstrual Hygiene Day
- 28 May - [Webinar] Water Museum Global Network: When Waters Speak - Reaching Water, 13:00-14:30 CET
- 31 May - 04 June - [Virtual Event] 6th International Faecal Sludge Management Conference (FSM6)
June 2021
- 07-09 June - [Virtual Event] IWRA Online Conference 2021: One Water, One Health: Water, Food and Public Health in a Changing World
- 07-10 June - [Event] 8th International Congress & Exhibition on Arsenic in the Environment, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- 10 June [Webinar] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series - Nature Based Solutions, 09:00-10:00 BST | 10:00-11:00 CET
- 14-16 June - [Event] DevRes 2021: Advancing Sustainable Transformation, Umeå, Sweden
- 15-18 June - [Virtual Event] Regional Climate Weeks: Africa Climate Week
- 20-24 June - [Event] Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), Singapore
- 21-25 June - [Event] IWA: 5th International Conference on Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment (EcoSTP), Milan, Italy
- 28 June - 02 July - [Virtual Event] DSA2021 - Development Studies Association Conference: Unsettling Development
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
- September - [Virtual Event] Water and WASH Futures virtual symposium: Sep-Oct 2021 [dates & theme tbc]
- 02 September - [Webinar] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series - Finance, 09:00-10:00 BST | 10:00-11:00 CET
- 03-11 September - [Event] IUCN World Conservation Congress, Marseilles, France
- 05-08 September - [Event] 4th IWA Resource Recovery Conference, Istanbul, Turkey
- 13–15 September - [Virtual Event] 42nd WEDC International Conference: Equitable and Sustainable WASH Services: celebrating our learning from failure and success
- POSTPONED 13-17 September - [Event] XVII World Water Congress: Foundations for Global Water Security and Resilience: Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Daegu, Korea --> 29 November - 03 December 2021
- 15-18 September - [Event] 1st IWA Non-Sewered Sanitation Conference, Pretoria, South Africa
- 22-24 September - [Event] 5th International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance + The International Conference on Rethinking Treatment with Asset Management, Porto, Portugal
- 23-24 September [Hybrid event] 1st Palestinian-Dutch Conference on Water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Climate smart agriculture (CSA), An-Najah National University/ via Zoom, Nablus, Palestine
October 2021
November 2021
- November - [Virtual Event] International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases - ISNTD Water 2021: Water, sanitation & infrastructure for tropical health
- TBA November - [Virtual Event] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series: Live from COP26
- 01-12 November - [Event] 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- 02-05 November - [Event] Aquatech Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 15–18 November - [Event] IWA Digital Water Summit, Bilbao, Spain
- 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day
- 29 November - 03 December [Event] XVII World Water Congress: Foundations for Global Water Security and Resilience: Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Daegu, Korea
December 2021
2022
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February 2022
March 2022
- 21-26 March - [Event] 9th World Water Forum: Water Security for Peace and Development, Diamniadio (Dakar), Senegal
- 22 March - [Event] World Water Day: Groundwater: making the invisible visible
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