Dr. Mahmoud Abu-Zeid, Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation and President of the World Water Council, explains: "Increasing scarcity, competition and arguments over water in the first quarter of the 21st century will dramatically change the way we value and use water and the way we mobilise and manage water resources. Innovative ways of using this precious commodity have to be found to protect ecosystems and ensure food for the billions on this planet."
The 3rd World Water Forum, to be held in Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka from March 16-23, will highlight actions being taken to implement solutions to key global water problems. The Forum’s secretariat has initiated the "Water Voice" project aimed to solicit grass-roots views on water problems and solutions, which has so far drawn an estimated 30,000 messages from both individuals all over the globe who suffer from water problems as well as those who value water resources. The innovative web-based program "Virtual Water Forum" collected more than 160 topics and has seen 5,400 participants. Another initiative. The Forum will also consider some of the outstanding success stories among the 3,000 water actions of communities and other stakeholders to address the global water crisis that were collected for more than two years by the World Water Council for its new "World Water Actions" report. Many of these demonstrate that local communities implement their own solutions when governments fail to act,. This supports the argument that governments should encourage bottom-up solutions.
The 3rd World Water Forum, to be held in Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka from March 16-23, will highlight actions being taken to implement solutions to key global water problems. The Forum’s secretariat has initiated the "Water Voice" project aimed to solicit grass-roots views on water problems and solutions, which has so far drawn an estimated 30,000 messages from both individuals all over the globe who suffer from water problems as well as those who value water resources. The innovative web-based program "Virtual Water Forum" collected more than 160 topics and has seen 5,400 participants. Another initiative. The Forum will also consider some of the outstanding success stories among the 3,000 water actions of communities and other stakeholders to address the global water crisis that were collected for more than two years by the World Water Council for its new "World Water Actions" report. Many of these demonstrate that local communities implement their own solutions when governments fail to act,. This supports the argument that governments should encourage bottom-up solutions.