Key conferences, meetings, webinars and international days
Save the date!: 22-26 November - [Event] AMCOW & African Union: 8th Africa Water Week and the 6th Africa Sanitation Conference (AfricaSan6), Namibia [Announcement Tweet]
Featured Event: 19 July - 11 September - [E-discussion] Sanitation Learning Hub / Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) / SuSanA: Building WASH resilience to climate change in rural communities
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
WASH Systems Academy
Courses: WASH systems strengthening: the basics | Social art for behaviour change: the basics | Specialist course: Building blocks of sustainable WASH systems | Custom-made course: Advocating for universal WASH services
PRE-REGISTER: Specialist course: Finance for sustainable WASH systems
2021
July 2021
- 28 June – 18 July [E-discussion] RWSN Leave No One Behind group: Social Accountability for Rural Water Supply During COVID19 Pandemic [Free membership required]
- 01 July - [Hybrid Event] GIZ: Water Dialogues for Results High-Level Conference: accelerating cross-sectoral SDG 6 implementation, Bonn, Germany, 14:00-17:20 CEST [register for livestream]
- 05 July - [Webinar] HWTS Network / CAWST: Chemical contaminants in drinking water and their impacts with a focus on point-of-use (household) applications, 09:00 MT | 17:00 CEST [registration]
- 05-07 July - [Virtual Event] 1st IAHR Online Forum
- 05-08 July - [Virtual Event] Shahidi wa Maji, Water Witness, UDSM & Univ Glasgow: Symposium on Urban Water Governance (SUWG)
- 06 July - [Webinar] SuSanA Stepping Stone Session - SuSanA Latin America, 17:00-18:30 CEST
- 06-09 July - [Virtual Event] Government of Japan: Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2021
- 07-08 July - [Virtual Event] 6th International Water Regulators Forum
- 09 July - [Webinar] SDG 6 Special Event during High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2021, 8:00-9:30 EDT/14:00-15:30 CEST
- 12 July [Webinar] Akvo: Water quality testing for Water Safety Plans, 15:00-16:00 CEST
- 13 July - [Webinar] SuSanA Stepping Stone Session - SuSanA African Chapter, 13:00-14:30 CEST
- 13 July - [Webinar] WSUP: The missing piece of climate adaptation - building water and sanitation services for resilient cities, 16:00-17:30 BST | 17:00-18:30 CEST [registration]
- 14 July - [Webinar] Sanitation Learning Hub: Rural sanitation and climate change, 09.00–10.30 BST | 10:00-11:30 CEST
- 14 July - [Webinar] AfWASA: Strategic Positioning and Visibility of African WASH Professional Women Networks, 10:00-12:00 GMT | 12:00-14:00 CEST
- 14 July - [Webinar] Human Right 2 Water webinars: Climate and Health Resilience, 14:00-16:00 CEST [registration]
- 14 July - [Webinar] USAID-funded WASHPaLS project: Creating Viable and Sustainable Sanitation Enterprises, 12:00-13:30 EST | 16:00-17:30 Ghana | 18:00-19:30 CEST
- 15 July - [Webinar] Third IWRA 2021 Master Class on Water Cooperation & Diplomacy: Approaching the SDGs as a System - Basic Observations, 14:00-16:30 CEST [Registration, membership required]
- 16 July - [Webinar] ADBI-Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Webinar on Sanitation and Development: Sanitation and Household Behavior in Rural Bangladesh, 19:00-21:00 Tokyo time | 06:00-08:00 North Carolina time
- 19 July - 11 September - [E-discussion] Sanitation Learning Hub / Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) / SuSanA: Building WASH resilience to climate change in rural communities
- 20 July - [Webinar] SuSanA Stepping Stone Session - WANA Chapter, 13:00-14:30 CEST
- 21 July - [Webinar] Seghal Foundation: How can HWTS support the government agenda of Safe water coverage in India?, 09:00 IST | 05:30 CEST [registration]
- 21 July - [Webinar] USAID Sustainable Water Partnership: Water Resources in Peril: A Discussion of Challenges and Opportunities, 09:00-10:30 EST | 15:00-16:30 CEST
- 22 July - [Webinar] IRC Uganda: Safe Water Strategy E-learning event - Not your typical PPP: Leveraging resources to extend utility partnerships for safely managed water services in Kabarole District, Uganda, 16:00-18:00 CEST | 14:00-16:00 Accra | 17:00-19:00 Addis Ababa/Kampala
- 22 July - [Webinar] UWASNET Uganda: IWRM, Climate Change and Environment Group Meeting, 11:00-12:00 Kampala | 10:00-11:00 CEST [Twitter announcement]
- 23 July - [Webinar] CSE India: Understanding the desludging models in Urban Settings: What works and what doesn't work?, 15:00-17:00 IST |11:30-3:30 CEST
- POSTPONED - 26-29 July - [Virtual Event] Government of Uganda: Africa Climate Week 2021 --> September 2021
- 26 July - [Webinar] Soroptimist International South West Pacific: Women, Water, Climate: The Way Forward, 16:00-17:30 (GMT+8) Malaysia | 08:00-09:00 CEST [registration]
- 27 July - [Webinar] IHE Delft Alumni & Partners Online Seminar: Simple sewage treatment processes in low and middle-income countries, 11:45-12:45 CEST
- 28 July - [Webinar] Water Integrity Network (WIN): Research Exchange: - Combating Corruption in WASH: Lessons from Lusaka, 14:00-15:00 CEST
August 2021
September 2021
- 19 July - 11 September - [E-discussion] Sanitation Learning Hub / Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) / SuSanA: Building WASH resilience to climate change in rural communities
- September - [Virtual Event] Water and WASH Futures virtual symposium [dates & theme tbc]
- September - [Virtual Event] Government of Uganda: Africa Climate Week 2021 [dates tbc]
- 02 September - [Webinar] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series - Finance, 09:00-10:00 BST | 10:00-11:00 CEST
- 03-11 September - [Hybrid Event] IUCN World Conservation Congress, Marseilles, France, includes Speaker pitch on Water for People & Nature: Lessons from Integrating Freshwater Conservation and WASH in Africa [date tba]
- 05-08 September - [Virtual Event] 4th IWA Resource Recovery Conference
- 06-08 September - [Hybrid Event] Delft International Conference on Sociohydrology: Engaging social scientists & water professionals to address the SDGs, X at Delft University of Technology, Delft the Netherlands
- 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
- CANCELLED 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
- 04 October - [Hybrid Event] United Nations World Data Forum 2021: Session TA4.03 - Ensuring the future of sustainable water data--for citizens, scientists and policymakers, 09:00-10:00 CET, Bern, Switzerland [programme]
- 04-08 October - [Virtual Event] German WASH Network: Regional Workshop WASH in Emergencies 2021 Africa (EN)
- 04-09 October - [Event] UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- 05/12 & 19 October - [Virtual Event] COP26: Water Climate Discussion Series - Water Climate Discussion Conference, 09:00-17:00 BST | 10:00-18:00 CEST [registration]
- 15 October - [Event] Global Handwashing Day: "Our Future is at Hand – Let's Move Forward Together"
- 17-21 October - [Event] 9th IWA-ASPIRE Conference and Exhibition 2021, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China
- 18-20 October - [Virtual Event] IWA/TU Delfy: 9th Microbial Ecology & Water Engineering Specialist Conference (MEWE 2021)
- 18-29 October - [Virtual Event] UN-Habitat's Global Water Operators' Partnerships Alliance: 4th Global WOPs Congress
- 25-29 October - [Virtual Event] German WASH Network: Regional Workshop WASH in Emergencies 2021 Asia
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 - [Hybrid Event] Aquatech Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 19 November - [Event] World Toilet Day
- 22-26 November - [Event] AMCOW & African Union: 8th Africa Water Week and the 6th Africa Sanitation Conference (AfricaSan6), Namibia [Announcement Tweet]
- 29 November - 02 December [Event] IWA Digital Water Summit, Bilbao, Spain
- 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
January 2022
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
April 2022
May 2022
June 2022
- 08-10 June - [Event] Water Africa & West Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars, Accra, Ghana
- 19-22 June - [Event] IWA/Czech Water Association: Water Loss 2022, Prague, Czech Republic
- 19-24 June - [Event] 39th IAHR World Congress: From Snow to Sea, Granada, Spain
- 22-24 June - [Event] IWA: Water Safety Planning 2022, Narvik, Norway
- 27 June - 01 July - [Event] 3rd IWA Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products Conference, Milan, Italy
July 2022
- 05-07 July - [Event] NbS Conference 2022: Nature-based Solutions in a Changing Climate, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
September 2022
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