Meet SEI at World Water Week 2026

SuSanA meeting

When? 22 August, 09.00-16.00 CEST

Where? Online and at Norrsken House, Birger Jarlsgatan 57C, Stockholm

In the lead-up to World Water Week, the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) will hold its 36^th meeting with a range of interesting presentations. SEI will share insights from the Bolivia Watch II project:

• Decision-support: Daniela Alzate will present a decision-support tool for evaluating the reuse potential of treated wastewater in smallholder and peri-urban agriculture in Bolivia. 
• Health risk assessment: Francesca Zanni will talk about Treated Wastewater Reuse under a Changing Climate: An ethnographic health risk assessment in the Chinchaya community in La Paz, Bolivia.

Bridging Watershed Management and Water Services to Build Resilient Livelihoods

When?  14:00–15:30 CEST

Where? Online and on-site Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre Room C1, Level 2

Session ID: 12520

Bridging watershed management with water and sanitation services is essential to build resilient livelihoods under rising climate pressures. This session explores practical ways to overcome fragmentation by strengthening coordination across institutions, planning, and finance, linking basin processes with service delivery to improve water security, public health, equity, and long-term resilience.

Convenors: SEI-HQ; SEI-Africa; SEI-Asia; SEI-Latin America; SEI-US

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Water for people, with people

When? 09.00-10.30 am CEST

Where? On-site at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Level 2, Room 26

Session ID: 12442

This on-site workshop will analyze complementary approaches of various stakeholders that strengthen participation of local communities (specifically women and youth) in the governance of water ecosystems and in the provision of water services, resulting in equitable and reliable water security and strengthened climate resilience.

Convenors: SEI, Oxfam, Deltares, WaterAid Netherlands, and IHE Delft – Institute for Water Education.

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AI – Water risks and opportunities

When? 11.00-12.30 CEST

Where?  Online and on-site at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre Room A4, Level 6

Session ID: 12738

Artificial intelligence relies on water across its supply chain, from chip production to data center cooling. This session will explore trade-offs different trade-offs as AI can both improve water management but also raises dependency, inequality, and geopolitical risks, making it both a solution and a water challenge.

SEI speaker: Biljana Macura, Senior Research Fellow

Convenor: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)

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Empowering Smallholder Farmers/Local Policymakers through a Collaborative Learning School, Nigeria

When? 14:30–16:00 CEST
Where? Online and on-site at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Room C4, Level 2

Session ID 12609

Hear stories from the 2025 Collaborative Learning School (CLS) held in Nigeria, including smallholder farmers, local policymakers, and early- and later-career researchers. This intense 2-week event linking smallholder farmers to policymakers, focusing on the water-energy-food nexus, led to measurable, documented changes: farmers formed cooperatives and accessed loans and infrastructure; policymakers restructured subsidy and credit systems; and researchers shifted from external observers to embedded contributors. Join us to see how you can apply these ideas in your geography.

Convenors: Stockholm Environment Institute, Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, SustainFood, University of Ibadan

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The Changing Landscape of Water Security: Investing in Resilience and Preparedness

When? 08.00-09.30

Where? The SEI office Textilgatan 43, Stockholm

Type of event: By invitation only.

Water is rapidly emerging as a strategic business issue. From supply chains and critical infrastructure to investment decisions and market stability, water-related risks increasingly shape operational resilience, competitiveness, and long-term value creation.

During World Water Week, we invite leaders from industry, finance, philanthropy, policy, and research to a high-level breakfast dialogue.

Organizers: SEI, The Coca-Cola Foundation Mexico, the Embassy of Mexico in Sweden and the Embassy of Sweden in Mexico.

Event contact: Marta Anguera 

Inclusive Basin Partnerships: Transforming Water Security Across Regions

When? 09:00–10:30 CEST

Where? Online and on-site at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Room A2, Level 6

Session ID: 12545

This session advances integrated river basin management from upper to lower basin areas through inclusive partnerships. Showcases from Europe and Asia highlight collaborative governance, science-based planning, and stakeholder engagement to balance competing water demands and risks. It also explores youth-led innovation and scalable policies and measures for climate-resilient basin management.

Convenors: SEI-Asia, DHI, Netherlands Water Partnership, Suntory, Water Risk Lab. / Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd; Korea Environment Institute

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Designing Systemic Progress in Water Security for LAC

When? 14:00–15:30 CEST

Where? Online and on-site at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Room C4, Level 2

Session ID: 12514

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, water progress depends on redesigning fragmented systems while reconnecting institutions, data, integrated planning, finance, and decision-making across scales. This session explores how community-led, place-based solutions, basin governance, circular transitions, and regenerative approaches strengthen adaptation and resilience, advancing transformation to deliver measurable outcomes for people and the environment.

Convenors: Stockholm Environment Institute, We Are Water Foundation, Altamira Regenerative Finance, Grupo Rotoplas, Rainforest Flow

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Rethinking WASH for crisis resilient communities

When? 14:00–15:30 CEST

Where? Online and on-site at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, A4, Level 6

Session ID: 12519

WASH services often collapse during extreme climate events and conflict, forcing repeated humanitarian response. This session examines how the disconnect between development and humanitarian WASH planning creates preventable failures. It explores integrating societal adaptive capacity, governance, and community participation into infrastructure resilience plans for more inclusive resilient WASH services.

Convenors: Stockholm Environment Institute, Swedish Red Cross

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SEI’s Arati Davis will moderate Centre Stage events throughout the week.

Find the full slate of sessions here.