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2016 World Water Week Theme: Water for Sustainable Growth
Aug 28- Sept 2

Leaders and experts from the world’s
scientific, business, government
and civic communities convene
in Stockholm to exchange views,
experiences and shape joint solutions
to global water challenges. The latest
World Water Week attracted over
3,000 participants and 300 convening
organizations from 130 countries all
over the world.
Hosted and organized by SIWI, World Water Week in
Stockholm is the leading annual global event for concretely
addressing the planet’s water issues and related concerns
of international development. The 2016 World Water
Week will be carried out under the theme “Water for
Sustainable Growth”.

Functioning as an open and dynamic
platform, the World Water Week enables participants
to build capacity, form partnerships and review
implementation, thereby advancing the world’s water,
environment, health, livelihood and poverty reduction
agendas.

The Water Report 2016 – including highly current issues of water and migration
sometimes parallel, issues
of water and migration.
While we are witnessing
some of the largest refugee
flows since the Second
World War, water crises
are highlighted as one of
the most pressing global
challenges. How these
two issues are linked, if at
all – read more in the first
chapter of this report.
At the core of SIWI’s work is building and sharing
knowledge about water and development issues. A better
understanding of our shared challenges, responsibilities
and opportunities is necessary if we are to successfully and
sustainably manage the world’s water resources for future
generations.
For several years, we published the World Water Week
Report, meant as an inspiration in the lead-up to what we
believe is the world’s most important annual water meeting.
The Water Report 2016 takes on the highly current, and
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Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene • September - October 2016

2015 was a year of big decisions. The time has come for
implementation. SIWI and The Water Report aims to
follow, on an annual basis, the implementation of the
Sustainable Development Goals – the Water Goal (SDG
6) and the other water-related SDGs – as well as the
implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Hoping to offer inspiration for talks at World Water Week
and beyond, the report’s final chapter discusses several
aspects of Water for Sustainable Growth – the theme of
the 2016 World Water Week