Water is vital for the survival, health and dignity of mankind. It is a fundamental resource for development. Water is increasingly becoming the single most precious and essential item that sustains life, enabling all humanity as well as nature to survive.
To ensure a sustainable water future we need to improve our knowledge. Sharing research results and lessons learnt from experience, new tools and innovative practices, ways of implementing more effective mechanisms of action for change and policy integration –these provide us the right path to follow. Scientific knowledge must be pertinent to issues on the ground and be shared effectively and rapidly, so that everyone may make a difference in reducing the impact of major water problems.
At the Symposium, we aim to exchange good practices as well as in-depth theoretical analyses to help stimulate ideas and actions for better stewardship of this most essential resource. The learning and sharing of good practice experience amongst HELP basins have greatly benefited the global community to improve the sustainable management of water resources, through continuous dialogue and involvement of stakeholders from the community to government level.
This global meeting will bring together more than 200 experts, government officials, media specialists, key water operators and political representatives of cities and stakeholder groups, to discuss the issues and propose the practical ways found at different parts of the planet to approach the water-related challenges.