The importance of water quality and how improving water quality provides better opportunities and sustainable development for urban and rural populations. UNEP-DHI Partnership presents a series of 6 webinars that gives you an introduction to the basic challenges and issues related to water quality. The purpose of the webinars is to improve awareness on the importance of water quality and the understanding of why water quality is a vital element in Sustainable Development Goals.

Working in the Wet provides a platform for Contractors, Consultants and providers of services associated with working in the water environment to present projects and new advances. In addition it offers an excellent opportunity for networking between sessions in the exhibition area.Any and all expressions of interest and the outline of potential papers' themes need to be with ICE by the 30th October 2015. 

The Understanding Risk & Finance Conference--Nov. 17-19, 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia--aims to advance the risk assessment and risk financing agenda in Africa by providing a forum for policy-makers to discuss effective strategies to improve the financial post-disaster response capacity. We are seeking proposals for session topics.

CDIET Project/PUSDIKLAT MPW in collaboration with its partners (IHE Indonesia/CKNet/UNESCO-IHE), is organising a Workshop in Water Governance and River Basin Organisation Management from 24-27 August 2015 at UB Hotel Malang, East Java.

As per 5th Assessment report of the IPCC, the buildings sector globally accounted for about 32% of final energy use and 8.8 Gt CO2 emissions, in 2010. This includes both direct and indirect emissions. The share of the building sector in global GHG emissions was 19% (including direct and indirect) in 2010. The energy demand with associated emissions shall continue to grow, with projected demand to double by mid century and CO2 emissions shall increase by 50-150% in the same time period. In parallel, there are significant advances in technologies, know‐how and policies that provide opportunities to reduce energy consumption in the sector. Both new and existing buildings need to be addressed in order to bring down the overall consumption levels and the associated emissions.

Entries open today for a youth video competition organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in conjunction with its upcoming 2nd Asian Irrigation Forum in Manila. ADB invites budding filmmakers aged 18-30 to submit a video of up to 3-minutes in length on the topic of “Who's growing tomorrow's food?”

SOS 2015 will bring together the diverse ocean business community to plan for the next 50 years of Blue Growth, a sustainable ocean economy and responsible ocean business opportunities.

In its second run after a successful launch in 2014, WMRAS, ISWA and NEA are happy to present a Seminar on Waste-to-Energy, a unique programme that combines the technical and policy expertise of senior experts from Europe and Singapore, with extensive WTE project development and implementation experience.

The staging of the Global Water Conference 2015 is to create awareness on the importance of safe water and sanitation crisis to the country. This conference is designed to facilitate the implementation of the safe water policies and encouraging collaboration between those working on water and sanitation issues, and those working on environmental, public health, economic growth and other issues.