The World Water Forum is an initiative of the World Water Council (WWC), which aims to raise the awareness of water issues around the world. As the more important international event on the subject, the Forum aims to foster the participation and the dialogue of multiple actors with the purpose to influence in the elaboration of policies development at global level, ensuring a better quality of life for the humanity around the world and a more responsible social behavior towards water use, in congruence with the goal to reach a sustainable development.

TheWorld Water Forums are built on the base of the knowledge, experience and consumptions of various organizations very active in the world of the water. Is an iniciative founded on the principlesof collaboration, association and innovation.

Every three years since 1997, the World Water Forum mobilises creativity, innovation, competence and know-how in favour of water. It gathers all stakeholders around today's local, regional and global issues that cannot be undertaken without all stakeholders into a common framework of goals and concrete targets to reach.

The goal of the 6th World Water Forum is to tackle the challenges our world is facing and to bring water high on all political agendas. There will be no sustainable development while the water issues remain unsolved. Everywhere on the planet, for all and everyone, the Right to Water (recognised by 189 states at the UN one year ago) must be guaranteed and implemented.

Key datas:

• 140 ministerial delegations
• More than 180 countries represented
• Over 800 speakers
• 25 000 participants expected
• Over 400 hours of discussions and debates
• Over 250 sessions and panels and about 100 Grassroots & Citizenship events
• Regional Trialogues organised among Ministers, Parliamentarians and Local/ Regional Authorities.
• High Level Roundtables

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