Sanitation Events
total results: 10
29 Oct. 2018 - 02 Nov. 2018 • Libreville, Gabon
7th Africa Water Week
The African Water Week represents a political commitment at the highest level where governments, regional institutions, international partners, the private sector, the scientific community, civil society, and the media from all over the world, and in particular Africa, meet to discuss and collectively seek solutions to Africa’s water and sanitation challenges. It is held annually in keeping with the decision of the African Ministers Council on Water to institutionalize the Africa Water Week (AWW) in order to build momentum on achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) water and sanitation targets by 2015, and the 2025 Africa Water Vision. This is in line with AMCOW’s belief that adequate and equitable access to water and sanitation makes a critical contribution to Africa’s progress towards sustainable development.
read more …29 Oct. 2018 - 02 Nov. 2018 • North Carolina, USA
Water and Health 2018
The Water and Health Conferences explores drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis.
read more …19 Nov. 2018 - 20 Nov. 2018 • Mumbai, India
World Toilet Summit 2018
World Toilet Summit 2018 will lay special focus on the evolution and journey of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and envisions itself as being a pioneer in motivating the successful completion of the mission as it enters its final year of conclusion. The summit aims to felicitate international stakeholder discussions and policy interventions that focus on bringing behavioural change, maintenance and sustenance of toilet usage, and innovations in WASH, along with solutions for faecal sludge management. The two-day summit will commence on 19 November 2018 in Mumbai, on the occasion of World Toilet Day. The summit is being officially supported by the government of Maharashtra and will consist of keynote address, panel discussions, as well as awards in different categories from WASH sector. As an increase in toilets leads to a healthier and cleaner environment, the summit will focus on promoting sustainable and viable solutions for the efficient management of toilets. On the afternoon of 18 November 2018, we are also holding a SuSanA India Chapter meeting on wastewater management back to back to the World Toilet Summit at Taj Land’s End, Mumbai.
read more …20 Nov. 2018 - 23 Nov. 2018 • Cape Town, South Africa
Sustainable Sanitation, Waste and Water Management Conference 2018
The conference Theme is Optimal Sanitation Waste & Water Management for a Sustainable Globe. Call for Papers in now open! The proper and sustainable management of sanitation, waste and water resources is a fundamental goal of the United Nations, articulated in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The management of these resources has a direct bearing on the quality of lives for all, but more especially communities in cities. Fresh water resources are depleting at an alarming rate, contaminated by human waste from industries and households, which compounds the water scarcity problem that currently affects one out of every ten people worldwide.
read more …21 Nov. 2018 • 00:00 - 00:00 • Telford, UK
International Conference on Water, Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring
WWEM 2018, The 8th in the Series of International Water and Wastewater Monitoring events is focused for companies and individuals who are involved with water, wastewater and environmental monitoring. WWEM comprises of a two day conference run with industry partners including SWIG (Sensors for water Interest Group) an exhibition of over 150 companies who provide instruments, equipment and services to monitor, test and analyse water and wastewater plus over 80 free technical seminar sessions on applications and case studies.
read more …28 Jan. 2019 - 31 Jan. 2019 • Rajasthan, India
SFD Week Designing and Implementing Affordable and Sustainable Citywide Sanitation for All
The fate of excreta produced by populations across the globe is often poorly understood. SFDs show how it is or is not managed as it moves from defecation to disposal or end-use. The SFD report presents the service delivery context of the city or town and the data sources used for the assessment.
read more …06 Feb. 2019 - 07 Feb. 2019 • Kisumu, Kenya
Innovate 4 Water
The proposed Innovate 4 Water Kisumu is a ‘homegrown’ initiative that seeks to build on lessons learned from the I4W Nairobi forum to provide a sustainable approach to addressing the need for innovation in the water and sanitation sector not only in Kenya but the region as well through private sector engagement. Technology and innovation have been prescribed as the strategy to deliver this aspiration as an enabler to efficient water use, which thereby reduces the strain on the utility companies in the country. Use of sustainable technologies and solutions is also recommended as a very good approach into which communities, urban centres, and governments can deal with the issues related to sanitation this include, collection, transportation. There is also a need to develop and integrate innovative technologies which can address non-revenue water in small towns and peri-urban centres. These include technical and commercial and water quality and adaptive management through real-time data collection and management.
read more …17 Feb. 2019 - 22 Feb. 2019 • Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
FSM5 - 5th International Faecal Sludge Management Conference
The fifth FSM conference will continue its mission of advocating and sharing good practice and innovation to improve how faecal sludge is managed and contributes to meeting the sanitation needs of 4.5 billion people lacking access to sustainable sanitation services. This platform creates an additional impetus to address the demands and challenges of the sanitation sector Africa, whilst also continuing to maintain the independent identity and global focus of the FSM conferences, including Asia. It will once again provide the opportunity for sector professionals, governments, policy-makers, utilities, development partners, investors, industries and service providers to coordinate, develop and share learning to provide affordable and workable solutions at scale.
read more …18 Feb. 2019 - 22 Feb. 2019 • Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
AfricaSan5, 5th AfricaSan Conference
AfricaSan is AMCOW’s path-breaking initiatives to promote prioritization of sanitation and hygiene in Africa. It is a Pan-African initiative to build momentum to address the ongoing epidemic of a lack of access to safe sanitation and large-scale open defecation. It is attended by Ministers responsible for sanitation and the key agencies working in sanitation and water across Africa. Since its creation, AfricaSan has grown from a conference to a movement with a blend of political support, technical advance and knowledge exchange driving the momentum for improved sanitation in the continent. From its start in 2002 in South Africa with just 13 ministers present, AfricaSan has expanded to include representatives from more than 60 African nations as well as over 1000 attendees. It has lobbied to influence global, regional and national sanitation and hygiene targets; to better make the case for investment in sanitation and hygiene, and to improve sectoral performance. AfricaSan has a unique focus on the establishment and tracking of progress towards achieving the AfricaSan commitments (eThekwini commitments (2008 – 2015) and Ngor commitments (2015 – 2030) as well as the AfricaSan Awards, aimed at honoring governments, organizations and individuals making strides in Africa’s sanitation and hygiene sector.
read more …03 Mar. 2019 - 07 Mar. 2019 • Dead sea, Jordan
Fifth Arab Water Week - Towards Sustainable Development in Water and Sanitation
The Arab Water Week (AWW) is a high-profile international and regional event promoted to attract decision makers, water management practitioners, and professional organizations internationally and in the Arab region. It was firstly launched in Amman, Jordan in December 2010, and organized by the Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) in partnership with Jordanian Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI) and League of Arab States- Arab Ministerial Water Council (LAS- AMWC).
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