WASH events calendar

Full overview

  - Event involving IRC as (co-)organiser or contributor

2018-2028: International Decade for Action: Water for sustainable development
2021-2030: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

WASH discussions:
SuSanA Forum |  RWSN Dgroups |  WASH in Schools Network | KnowledgePoint Forum | SNVWater groups 

 2024

• 04 April - 04 December 2024 - [Virtual Event] NEWAVE - The Next Wave of Water Governance Diffuse Conference
• Until 01 September 2024 - [Exhibition] REACH and Oxford Museum of Natural History: Fair Water?, Oxford, UK
• Until 25 October 2024 - [Innovation Challenge] World Bank Youth Innovation Challenge: Water Solutions for a New Climate Reality [Application deadline: 23 February 2024]

June 2024

• 02-06 June - [Event] 18th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion, Istanbul, Türkiye
• 03 June - [Event] GIZ & WINZ: Watering the Clean Energy Transition - A global call to action on the water-climate-energy nexus, Bonn Germany, 10:30-12:00 CEST
• 03-13 June - [Event] UNFCCC: Bonn Climate Change Conference, Bonn, Germany
• 04 June - [Webinar] RWSN Early Webinar Series 2024: Incontinence: An urgent hidden issue for rural water supply, 09:00 CEST
• 04 June - Webinar] IWA: Strengthening Regulatory Frameworks for Water & Sanitation Resilience, 14:00 CEST
• 09-14 June - [Event] Delft University of Technology, 16th International Conference on Urban Drainage 2024 (ICUD 2024), Delft, the Netherlands
• 10-13 June - [Event] Tajikistan / United Nations: 3rd High-Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development", Dushanbe, Tajikistan
• 11 June - [Webinar] RWSN Early Webinar Series 2024: Artificial Intelligence and Water Management: Opportunities, Effectiveness, Limitations and Ethics, 14:00 CEST
• 11 June - [Webinar] SuSanA: Putting Animals on the WASH agenda : launch of policy brief, 15:00 CEST
• 12-13 June - [Hybrid Event] TechChange, USAID, Chemonics, IBM & DAI: Global Digital Development Forum (GDDF 2024), Washington, DC, USA
• 16-20 June - [Event] 13th IWA Micropol and Ecohazard Conference - Towards a Low Ecological and Health Risk Water Environment, Taipei, Taiwan
• 18 June - [Webinar] RWSN Early Webinar Series 2024: Supported self-supply: case studies from four continents, 09:00 CEST
• 18-21 June - [Event] IWA: International Conference on Wider-Uptake of Water Resource Recovery from Wastewater Treatment (ICWRR 2024), Palermo, Italy 
•  18-22 June - [Event] Singapore International Water Week, Singapore
• 19 June - [Webinar] IWA & UN-Habitat: Urban Sanitation Challenges: Case Studies from Africa and Asia, 15:00-16:30 CEST
• 19 June - [Webinar] WHO, UNICEF World Bank: Align to accelerate - Monitoring the strength of WASH systems, 15:00-16:30 CEST
• 19-21 June - [Event] Environmental Peacebuilding Association & Leiden University: Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding [Water is one of the 5 themes], The Hague, the Netherlands
• 24-28 June - [Event] 18th IWA Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies, Essen, Germany
• 24-28 June - [Event] ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS) and ECOSOC Meeting on the Transition from Relief to Development, New York, NY, USA
• 25 June - [Webinar] CSE: Inequity and climate change - Water woes of our large dense unplanned urban settlements - A Case study of Sangam Vihar, Delhi, 15:00-16:00 IST | 11:30-12:30
• 25 June - [Webinar] RWSN Early Webinar Series 2024: Stop the Rot: The quality challenge - ensuring a high standard of rural water infrastructure from the outset, 14:00 CEST [Registration]
• 25 June - [Webinar] UNICEF & partners: Towards a Period Friendly World - Taking Stock on Funding and Progress to Reach Scale, 08:00-09:15 EST | 14:00-15:15 CEST
•  25 June - [Webinar] CDC Foundation & Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Safe Water Strategy Initiative: Models for WASH in healthcare facilities - Lessons from five years of contextually designed district-wide WASH programs in HCFs across Sub-Saharan Africa, 15:00 CEST [Registration]
• 25 June - [Webinar] World Bank: Perspectivas de Jóvenes Indígenas en la Gestión del Agua en América Latina, 12:00-13:00 EDT | 18:00-19:00 CEST
•  25-27 June: UNICEF, WaterAid & WHO: Global Summit to Accelerate Progress Towards Universal Access to Safely Managed Sanitation, Kathmandu, Nepal
• 26 June - [Webinar] WIN: Integrity Talk 11: Big Cities and Water Scarcity - Issues of Accountability [in Spanish], 08:30 CDMX | 16:30 CEST [Registration]
• 26 June - [Webinar] ADB Pacific WASH Webinars: Building Successful Utility-Landowner Partnerships for Reliable WASH Services in the Pacific, 08:00 Manila
• 27 June - [Webinar] IWA: Water Security, Inclusivity and the SDGs, 14:00-15:00 CEST
• 28 June - [Webinar] IWA: Seguridad hídrica, inclusión y los ODS, 16:00-17:00 CEST
• 28 June - [Webinar] EAWAG Sandec & WRI Uganda: Facilitating collaboration in Nexus of research, practice and funding for WASH, 11:00 EAT | 10:00 CEST [Registration]

July 2024

• 02 July - [Webinar] SuSanA, CDD India, CSE & ESF: Faecal Sludge Treatment Plants - Some Lessons from India for the Global South, 15:00-16:30 IST | 11:30-13:00 CEST
• 02 July - [Virtual Workshop] Amita Bhakta - Hidden WASH: Cultural legacies of sanitation: Using PhotoVoice in WASH, 11:00-13:00 CEST
• 03-05 July - [Event] RECONECT network. IWA & IAHR: Nature-Based Solutions for Water Security and Climate Adaptation Conference - Bridging Science & Practice, Belgrade, Serbia
• 04 July - [Webinar] FSM: Introduction to the Sanitation Economy Maturity Assessment Tool (SANEMAT): Consultation with Partners, 11:00 CEST [Registration]
• 08-17 July - [Event] UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), New York, NY, USA
• 16 July - [Event] UN ECOSOC / UN-Water: SDG 6 and Water Action Agenda Special Event at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, New York, NY, USA
• 17 July - [Webinar] KWAHO & WIN: Info Session - Integrity Management Toolbox for Small Water Supply Systems, 11:00 CEST
• 21-23 July - [Event] 9th International Conference on Water Pollution and Treatment, Berlin, Germany
• 24-26 July - [Event] 7th International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management (WWEM-24), Lisbon, Portugal
• 25 July - [Webinar] Global WASH Cluster: Multi-Sectoral Hygiene Promotion - Social and Behavior Change in Emergencies, 13:00 CEST [Registration]

August 2024

• 11-15 August - [Event] IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
• 24 August - [Hybrid Event] 34th SuSanA Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 10:00-16:00 CEST
• 25-28 August - [Event] 10th IWA Odours and Air Emissions Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• 25-29 August - [Hybrid Event] SIWI: World Water Week - Bridging Borders, Stockholm, Sweden

September 2024

• 04-06 September - [Event] IWA: 6th International Conference for Water Safety, Montevideo, Uruguay
• 04-06 September - [Event] IWRA: First Islands Water Congress - Freshwater and Islands: Administration, Collaboration and Innovation, Faroe Islands
• 08-12 September - [Event] 14th IWA Specialized Conference on the Design, Operation and Economics of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants (LWWTP 2024), Budapest, Hungary
• 08-13 September - [Event] IAH2024Davos: World Groundwater Congress [Incl. sessions on Self-supply and Groundwater for drinking water & sustainable livelihoods for low-income communities], Davos, Switzerland [Abstract deadline: 29 Feb]
• 09-13 September - [Virtual Event] Water and Climate Resilience: 43rd WEDC International Conference
• 10-12 September - [Event] 19th EverythingAboutWater Expo 2024, New Delhi, India
• 22-23 September - [Event] UN Summit of the Future, New York, NY USA
• 23 September - [Event] France/Kazakhstan: One Water Summit - for an international cooperation agenda on water, New York, NY, USA

October 2024

• 07-11 October - [Event] 38th AGUASAN Workshop: the WASH humanitarian-development nexus, Meielisalp, Switzerland
• 13-15 October - [Hybrid Event] World Health Summit, Bonn, Germany
• 14-18 October - [Hybrid Event] UNC Water & Health Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• 15 October - [Global Event] Global Handwashing Day
• 19 October - [Virtual Event] ISNTD Water: Water, sanitation & hygiene for tropical diseases
• 21-24 October - [Event] IWA: 4th International Conference on Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products (DDBP 2024), Almería, Spain
• 24-29 October - [Event] IWA Biofilms 2024 Conference : biofilms for nutrient removal and carbon neutrality, Shanghai, China
• 28 October - [Event] DevelopMetrics: AI for Development Conference, Barcelona, Spain

November 2024

• 04-08 November - [Hybrid Event] UN-Habitat: World Urban Forum (WUF12), Cairo, Egypt
• 10-14 November - [Event] 17th IWA Small Water and Wastewater Systems and 9th IWA Resource Oriented Sanitation, Curtiba, Brazil
• 11-22 November - [Event] UN Climate Change Conference (COP-29), Baku, Abseron, Azerbaijan
• 12-14 November - [Event] IWA Digital Water Summit, Bilbao, Spain
• 12-14 November - [Event] IEREK: 1st international conference on Sustainable Water Management and Resource Adaptation: Security and Energy Nexus, Paris, France
• 17-21 November - [Event] IWA/University of Queensland: Nutrient Removal and Recovery Conference 2024, Gold Coast, Australia
• 18-19 November - [Event[ G20 Brasil 2024, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 19 November - [Global Event] World Toilet Day
• 24-29 November - [Event] IWA & AFD: 18th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, Fort-de-France, Martinique

December 2024

• 06-08 December - [Event] 5th India Public Policy Conference Network (IPPN): Policy Processes in the Global South - Water and Sanitation panel, Mumbai, India

 2025

February 2025

• 17-20 February - [Event] 22nd AfWASA International Congress and Exhibition, Kampala, Uganda

March 2025

• 10-14 March - [Event] Amsterdam International Water Week, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• 16-20 March - [Event] 14th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse, Cape Town, South Africa

April 2025

• 28-30 April - [Event] IWA: 6th International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics and Finance and 10th Leading Edge Conference for Strategic Asset Management (LESAM) (IWA Cyprus 2025), Pafos, Cyprus

May 2025

• 19-23 May - [Event] IWA Resource Recovery Conference 2025: From Novel Concepts to Business, Leeuwarden, Fryslân, the Netherlands

June 2025

• 23-26 June - [Event] 7th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment, Stockholm, Sweden

November 2025

• 10-21 November - [Event] UN Climate Change Conference (COP-30), Belém, Pará, Brazil

2026

• [tbd] 2026 - [Event] 2026 United Nations Water Conference to Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all [UN General Assembly, 77th session, A/77/L.106, 28 Aug 2023]

2027

• [tbd] 2027 - [Event] World Water Council: 11th World Water Forum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2028

• [tbd] 2028 - [Event] United Nations Conference on the Final Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028, Dushanbe, Tajikistan [UN General Assembly, 77th session, A/77/L.106, 28 Aug 2023]