WORLD WATER DAY 2011 :Capetown Main Event
The African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) is pleased to join UN-HABITAT and UN-Water in co-organizing World Water Day (WWD) 2011. The global observance of WWD 2011, to be hosted by the Government of South Africa in Cape Town with the theme Water and Urbanization, provides a good opportunity to discuss a range of options for tackling urban water and sanitation challenges facing the African continent. World Water Day 2011 will take place from 20 - 22nd March 2011 at the Cape Town International Conference Center. On 20 and 21st March 2011 many organisations will have parallel and side events. On World Water Day, 22nd March a plenary program will be organised with presentations, debate and culture
Registration for WWD 2011 will be through this website, starting from January 2011.
The WWD 2011 Exhibition and Fair will be open for three days from 20th - 22nd March to exhibitors from all over the world. The exhibit area will present 40 units of 16 - 20m2, which will be available to a large and varied number of national and international exhibitors and on a first-come-first-served basis. Visitors to the fair will include 1,500 participants attending the Cape Town event as well as local visitors from South Africa. At the fair is a large podium for presentations and entertainment. It will feature cultural events, speeches, interviews and worldwide videoconferencing via the Internet. All luncheons and reception parties will take place at the fair.
The global celebrations of World Water Day 2011 (WWD 2011) provide a good opportunity to alert the world to the adverse global situation in urban water management, and to encourage seizing opportunities to address these formidable challenges. Through disseminating knowledge of successful approaches, it also seeks to give hope that solutions can be found. A principle objective of WWD 2011 is to celebrate success and better educate decision-makers, sector stakeholders and the world population about solution.