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Agriculture depends on water and underpins food security and rural livelihoods. Sustainable practices for green water and landscape management, support productivity, ecosystems, and climate resilience.

Climate resilience depends on placing water at the centre of climate strategies. Managing droughts, floods, and shifting hydrological patterns is essential, alongside links to climate policy and finance.

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by water challenges but often excluded from decision making. Gender-transformative approaches strengthen leadership, participation, and more just water governance.

Green water is the moisture stored in soils and vegetation and released into the atmosphere as evaporation and rainfall. Governing forests and landscapes is essential to manage these flows and sustain climate, ecosystems, and agriculture.

Groundwater is a critical yet often overlooked water source. Strengthened governance and monitoring of aquifers are essential for resilience, drinking water, agriculture, and ecosystems.

Human rights-based approaches promote equitable access to water and inclusive governance. Principles such as participation, accountability, and non-discrimination are central to sustainable water management.

Indigenous Peoples hold deep knowledge of water, landscapes, and ecosystems. Supporting Indigenous rights and leadership ensures policies reflect this knowledge and strengthen resilience and justice.

Industry and business play a key role in water stewardship. Managing water risks, reducing pollution, and aligning economic activity with responsible water use are essential.

Integrated management of land, water, and ecosystems supports biodiversity, livelihoods, and water flows. Healthy landscapes are essential for climate adaptation and mitigation, and long-term resilience.

Nature-based solutions reduce risk, enhance biodiversity, and strengthen ecosystem and socio-economic resilience.

Rivers, wetlands, and basins form the backbone of freshwater systems. Their protection and sustainable management are essential for ecological health and water security.

Many rivers, lakes, and aquifers cross national borders. Different forms of cooperation over shared waters – both across scales and sectors – helps reduce tensions, ensure sustainable use and prosperity, and deliver regional benefits beyond water.

Swedish Water House convenes Swedish actors to collaborate on international water challenges. Through dialogue and knowledge sharing, it strengthens Sweden’s contribution to global water governance.

Water security means reliable access to water for people, economies, and ecosystems, now and in the future. Addressing risks, scarcity, and extremes is central to long-term resilience.

Water diplomacy fosters cooperation over shared freshwater across levels and sectors through formal and informal dialogue. By strengthening collaboration across borders, it supports conflict prevention and sustainable peace.

Policies, institutions and social values shape how water is managed across sectors and scales. Effective governance underpins equitable, impartial, and sustainable water decisions.

World Water Week is SIWI’s annual global conference on water. As SIWI’s flagship convening platform, it drives dialogue, collaboration, and solutions across the water community.

Young people are essential actors in addressing global water challenges. Meaningful youth participation strengthens water governance and climate action at all levels.