The world’s leading water conference, World Water Week, will in 2023 take place on 20-24 August at the WaterFront Convention Centre in the heart of Stockholm. The week will focus on innovation at a time when new thinking is very much needed. It will also provide an opportunity to follow-up on commitments made at the UN Water Conference in New York in March.

The conference also takes place online. It will draw on the latest water-related scientific knowledge and experiences from around the world, exploring new ways for how water can be a powerful tool to address not only the world’s water crisis, but also global heating, biodiversity loss, poverty, and many other urgent challenges.

To adapt to life in a hotter and more water-scarce world, people everywhere are seeking better ways to manage water. We are starting to see inspiring initiatives and important transformations of societies and businesses, but not yet at the pace and scale needed. To this end, the theme for 2023 is Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World.

Following the United Nations 2023 Water Conference earlier this year, many sessions will be related to the themes Water for Health; Water for Development; Water for Climate, Resilience and Environment; Water for Cooperation and the Water Action Decade. World Water Week 2023 thereby provides an important forum for following up on the commitments made in New York and how they can be achieved, ultimately working to accelerates global water action.