By encouraging people around the globe to explore nature-based solutions to 21st century challenges relating to water, World Water Day is making us take a fresh look at water and the factors leading, in parts of the world, to its increasing scarcity. These challenges include the growing demand for water...

The forest-water topic is a contentious one. There are few universal truths about forest-water relationships that can be applied widely for an array of ecosystems, in different regions, or across various scales. Our accepted wisdom relies on expert judgement and inference. The benefits and/or impacts of forests in relation to water...

A little more than a year has passed since approximately 20 international experts met for a three-day workshop at SIWI’s offices in Stockholm to develop indicators that measure forest-water relationships. The ambitious task responded to a repeated call to improve forest-water monitoring and evaluation, and the need to mainstream these...

This August, world leaders, water experts, development professionals and policy-makers gathered in Stockholm for a week-long meeting focused on finding ways to better use, and reuse, the world’s increasingly scarce fresh water. World Water Week events draw over 3,000 participants from nearly 130 countries with the 2017 theme being, “Water...

Between 29 May and 3 June, approximately 1500 registered participants attended the XVI World Water Congress. The week of events related to the topics: Water Scarcity in a Changing World; Building Capacity, Water, Sanitation and Health; Water Policy and Governance; Water Ecosystems and Physical Regimes; Water Quality Management; Water and...