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World Water Day Observed in Bangladesh: World Water Day is celebrated every year on 22nd March to draw attention on the importance of freshwater and to propagate the needs of sustainable management of freshwater resources. In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro had recommended the observance of World Water Day. Thereafter, the United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March of each year as World Water Day by adopting a resolution. Since 1993, March 22nd is being observed as World Water Day considering the harsh realities in water sector. One in eight people in the world don’t have access to safe water.
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World Water Week in Stockholm, August 16-22, 2009: Building Capacity – Promoting Partnership – Reviewing Implementation
Hosted and organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the World Water Week in Stockholm has been the annual focal point for the planet’s water issues since 1991. The Week provides a unique forum for the exchange of views and experiences between the scientific, business, policy and civic communities. It focuses on new thinking and positive action toward water-related challenges and their impact on the world’s environment, health, economic and poverty reduction agendas. It does so by:

• Exploring the interconnected problems of water, society, the environment brand economic vitality, building capacity and charting action toward practical solutions.

• Fostering pro-active partnerships and alliances between individuals and organisations from different ﬁelds of expertise. World Water Week in Stockholm – Building Capacity – Promoting Partnership – Reviewing Implementation

• Highlighting ground-breaking research, best practices and innovative policy work by stakeholders and experts around the world and from multiple disciplines.

• Reviewing the implementation of actions, commitments and decisions in international processes and by different stakeholders in response to the challenges. By harnessing and linking best practices, scientific understanding and policy and decision-making, the World Water Week in Stockholm moves beyond rhetoric to provide real answers to the world’s water, environment and development problems. The perspective is global, but the context is attuned to differences and similarities between regions of the world, phases of development, political systems and climatic conditions.

Source: www.worldwaterweek.org

Contact: rosanna.ricciuti@siwi.org

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Knowledge Sharing Fair in Khagrachari: The National Resource Centre of NGO Forum for DWSS has organised a knowledge sharing Fair in observing the International Year of Sanitation (IYS) 2008 in Khagrachari which is one of the hill districts of Bangladesh. The theme for the Fair was “Total Sanitation for Sound Health and Safer Environment” it involved actively the local administration, relevant government agencies, and partner NGOs. There were stalls in the Fair which had displayed models and information about different alternative safe water supply and sanitation technologies like tube-well, ring-well, gravity flow system, rain water harvesting systems, low cost sanitary latrines along with the structure of house premise. Besides, there were different publications that were displayed and distributed among the interested peoples. Apart from these rallies, film shows and drama were also organized for sensitizing the people towards the use of safe water, environmental sanitation and practicing good hygiene habits. This knowledge sharing event was distinctive in nature in the WatSan sector in disseminating information to the snooping people where lessons were much encouraging for the NRC.
International Year of Sanitation 2008 launched for the Asia-Pacific region: From the small island States in the Pacific Ocean to the countries of the Himalayan plateau, Asia-Pacific leaders committed themselves to tackle the region's severe sanitation crisis. Although one out of five people in the region do not have access to safe drinking water, half of the population in the Asia-Pacific region, equating to a staggering 1.6 billion people, are still without adequate sanitation.