The objective of the XIIIth World Water Congress is to enhance the world’s knowledge and raise global consciousness of the impact of global changes on water resources. The Congress will bring together wide-interest participation, exhibitions and scientific communications about our planet’s water resources. This Congress will represent an important global meeting point
for open dialogue between public and private partners, between users and decision makers and between developing, emerging and developed countries. In order to contribute to this
global reflection and action, the Congress will organise numerous debates, presentations and exhibitions among key water stakeholders.

The XIIIth World Water Congress follows the success of an established history of previous IWRA Congresses at New Delhi in 2005 (Water for sustainable development – Towards innovative solutions); Madrid in 2003 (Water Resources Management in the 21st Century); Melbourne in 2000 (Sharing and Caring for Water) and building on a tradition of excellence stretching back to the inaugural World Water Congress held in 1973 in Chicago, USA (Water for the Human Environment). The XIIIth World Water Congress will provide the platform to launch and advance
further the debate on the assessment of future global changes, emanating from natural or man–made actions on water resources.    

The main theme of the XIII World Water Congress GLOBAL CHANGES AND WATER RESOURCES: confronting the expanding and diversifying pressures

1. Water Availability, Use and Management
2. Towards the Future: Water Resources and Global Changes
3. Climate Change and Disasters
4. Development of Water Resources and Infrastructure
5. Water Governance and Water Security: 30 Years After The Un Mar Del Plata Conference of 1977
6. Water Conservation and Demand Management
7. Financing Water Development and Capacity Building
8. Capacity Building in Developing Countries