The World Water Forum is the largest international event in the water sector that gathers various stakeholders, every three years since 1997. The 10th World Water Forum, under the central theme of "Water for Shared Prosperity", is held in Bali, Indonesia between 18-25 May 2024, with the aim to be a platform for sharing innovative ideas and discovering sustainable solutions. The forum agenda covers a wide range of topics related to prosperity, water for people and nature, disaster risk reduction, governance and cooperation, sustainable finance, knowledge and innovation. The forum proceeding under three processes (political, thematic and regional), hosts a total of 123 sessions, including 20 high-level panels, 89 thematic sessions and 14 special sessions.
Our Ministry is participating in the 10th World Forum with a delegation consisting of Turkish Water Institute, the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works and the General Directorate of Water Management, headed by our Deputy Minister Mr. Ebubekir Gizligider. The delegation actively participates in 14 sessions as speakers or moderators. Deputy Minister Mr. Ebubekir Gizligider and SUEN President Prof. Dr. Lütfi Akca attended the Ministerial Conference held on the first day of the forum in which Mr. Gizligider gave a speech about our country's water policies and vision.
The Forum also hosts numerous side events, and in this regard, a side event was organized on 20 May 2024 to present the "Water Efficiency Campaign" carried out by our Ministry under the auspices of First Lady Mrs. Emine Erdoğan, in which the opening speech was delivered by Mr. Ebubekir Gizligider.
On the margins of the forum, the delegation also meets with the representatives of the international organizations to evaluate potential collaborations on water issues.
Thematic and special sessions being organized / attended by our country:
- Political: Ministerial Sessions
- T4A2: Transboundary and cross-sectoral dialogue for peace and water resilience
- T2A1: Road map for water quality monitoring and assessment: From ecological status assessment to planetary blue health under climate change
- T2CC1: One Health: Linking water for humans and nature through water quality at a basin scale: new approaches and new technologies
- HLP9: Towards a Global One Health approach in public and environmental monitoring
- HLP10: Worldwide observatory for non-conventional water resources & renewable energy
- RM3: Drought and flood prevention and management
- T1A4: Can utilities be incentivized to supply less and reduce demand while remaining viable?
- T2A3: The Blue Mirror paradox: How dirty waters support the One Health approach in public and environmental health monitoring
- T6E2: Strengthening the capacities of institutions, professionals, and stakeholders of water resources management and utilisation
- Basin Segment: High level session on better integration of ecological security in basin level approaches
- SS4: Money for honey (Trucks): Financing a global wastewater and environmental water surveillance system in a One Health approach
- T4C3: Handbook for the local implementatıon of the OECD principles on water governance
- CC15: The role of science for building capacity and dialogue across transboundary basins