WASH events calendar

Key conferences, meetings, webinars and international days

10th World Water Forum

World Hand Hygiene Day

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

21 February - 01 May 2024 - [Virtual Event] NEWAVE & VU Amsterdam: Water Security & Justice Webinar Series
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]

April 2024

03 April - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: Treading the complexities of living with(out) waters - Stories from the Philippine and Peruvian Amazon - Lecture by Heidi Mendoza, 16:00-17:00 CET
03 April - [Hybrid Event] IRC WASH Debates: Results Count - Getting to know the updated results framework for the Dutch Water Portfolio, The Hague, the Netherlands, 16:00-17:30 CET
04 April - [Webinar] WASHWeb Webinar: The Future of Our WASH Data Ecosystem, 15:00 CET
05 April - [Event] IHE: Mini Symposium & Inaugural address Professor Ioana Popescu - Mapping hydroinformatics on the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Landscape, Delft, the Netherlands, 15:00-18:00 CET
07 April - [Global Event] World Health Day
09-12 April - [Hybrid Event] Skoll World Forum, Oxford, UK
10 April - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: New and old watergates: biophysical and water tenure controls on water access in conditions of scarcity - Lecture by Prof Paolo D'Odorico, 16:00-17:00 CET
10-31 April: [E-discussion] SNV: Professionalising management and accountability in rural water supply [Registration required to SNVWater | RuralWASH eGroup in Groups.io]
11 April - [Webinar] SWA: Mutual Accountability Mechanism (MAM) - accountability in action, 10:00-11:30 EST (English only) | 16:00-17:30 CEST (English, Spanish and French)
14-17 April - [Event] IWA-WLSG: Water Loss 2024, San Sebastián, Spain
15-17 April - [Event] Global Water Summit 2024: Security for a Changing Planet, London, UK
18 April - [Webinar] FSN Network & PRO-WASH & SCALE: Making Markets Work for Hygiene - Engaging the Private Sector for Healthier Communities, 07:00-08:00 ET | 12:00-13:00 CET
19 April - [Event] SWA, IADB & UNICEF: Latin America and the Caribbean Finance Ministers' Meeting (LAC FMM), Washington, DC, USA
24 April - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: What we learned about environmental justice looking at water in mining conflicts - Lecture by Beatriz Rodríguez Labajos, 16:00-17:00 CET
29 April - 10 May - [Hybrid Event] Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, Geneva, Switzerland
30 April - [Webinar] FSN Network & PRO-WASH & SCALE: Lessons and Perspectives from Water Security and Resilience Activities in the Sahel - Part I, 09:30-10:00 ET | 14:30-16:00 CET
30 April - 02 May - [Virtual Event] Collective Impact Forum: Collective Impact Action Summit

May 2024

01 May - [Webinar] VU Amsterdam: WSJUST webinar series: Negotiating nature(s) - Decision-making on mining projects through a multi-dimensional environmental justice lens - Lecture by Mirja Schoderer, 16:00-17:00 CET
05 May - [Global Event] WHO: World Hand Hygiene Day
08-09 May - [Event] On Think Tanks & Fundació Bofill: OTT Conference 2024, Barcelona, Spain [register interest]
08-10 May - [Event] Priorities 2024 Conference: 14th Conference of the International Society for Priorities in Health (ISPH), Bangkok, Thailand
13-14 May - [Event] 28th Global WASH Cluster Annual Meeting, Zürich, Switzerland
14-15 May - [Event] EWA, IWA & NULS: WMCC 2024: Water Management in Changing Conditions at the IFAT-Munich exhibition, Munich, Germany
14-24 May - [Event] 6th General Assembly of the World Youth Parliament for Water: Building bridges for a water-secure world, Bali, Indonesia
15 May - [Webinar] FSN Network & PRO-WASH & SCALE: Lessons and Perspectives from Water Security and Resilience Activities in the Sahel - Part II, 10:30-12:00 ET | 15:30-17:00 CET
15-16 May - [Hybrid Event] Global WASH Cluster: National Coordination Platforms Workshop [Save the Date]
15-17 May - [Hybrid Event] Emergency Environmental Health Forum, EAWAG, Dübendorf, Switzerland
17-20 May - [Event] IWA Conference on Sustainable Sludge Management, Beijing, China
18-24 May - [Event] World Water Council - 10th World Water Forum, Bali, Indonesia
20-24 May - [Event] 17th IFEH World Congress on Environmental Health, Perth, Australia
21-22 May - [Event] AMSE, LSHTM & IFS: WASH Economics Conference, Marseille, France
27-29 May - [Event] Biennial WISA 2024 Conference: Turning the Tide, Durban, South Africa
27-31 May - [Event] 15th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2024): From Nature to Digital Water - Challenges and Opportunities, Beijing, China
29-31 May - [Event] eLearning Africa: 17th International Conference & Exhibition on Digital Education, Training & Skills Development, Kigali, Rwanda
30 May - [Webinar] Advancing solutions for water-related challenges in Latin America together: Webinar 2 - Emergency Management, 16:30-18:30 CET

June 2024

02-06 June - [Event] 18th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion, Istanbul, Turkey
09-14 June - [Event] Delft University of Technology, 16th International Conference on Urban Drainage 2024 (ICUD 2024), Delft, the Netherlands
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
18-21 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
19-21 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

July 2024

03-05 July - [Event] RECONECT network. IWA & IAHR: Nature-Based Solutions for Water Security and Climate Adaptation Conference - Bridging Science & Practice, Belgrade, Serbia
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

August 2024

11-15 August - [Event] IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
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
08-13 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

October 2024

07-10 October - [Event] 4th International Conference on Disinfection and Disinfection By-Products (DBPs), Almeria, Spain
13-15 October - [Hybrid Event] World Health Summit, Bonn, Germany
15 October - [Global Event] Global Handwashing Day
19 October - [Virtual Event] ISNTD Water: Water, sanitation & hygiene for tropical diseases

November 2024

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] 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
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

2025

February 2025

17-20 February - [Event] 22nd AfWASA International Congress and Exhibition, Kampala, Uganda [postponed from 19-22 Feb 2024, Conakry, Guinea]

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

Jun 2025

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

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]

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]