Saving drops for tomorrow
considered the most important annual global conference on water, the Stockholm Water Symposium (sws) is slated to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, from August 4-9. Organised by the Stockholm Water Company, the symposium and the Stockholm Water Prize have been instituted to focus the world's attention on the rapid deterioration of global water resources, to analyse the problems and to suggest means of overcoming them.
According to the organisers, "the aim of the symposia is to serve as a bridge between practice, science, policy making, and decision taking in the search for effective, long-term water resources management.'
In the sixth year of the seminar this time, the focus is