Welcome to Stockholm Water Week 2008

World Water Week which takes place in Stockholm from 17th to 23rd August 2008 focuses on key global water issues and is a meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programmes in water and development. This event is organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). The theme of the week is Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World with a special focus on Sanitation.
IWMI is pleased to launch it's 53 city global assessment of wastewater in developing countries at Stockholm Water Week this year.

Contacts

Jeff Haskins : jeff.haskins@burnesscommunications.com

Megan Dold : mdold@burnesscommunications.com

Dawn Rodriguez : d.rodriguez@cgiar.org

53-City Assessment Finds That in Most Cities Wastewater Dumped Into Environment Ends Up in Urban Agriculture

• Press Release - [English PDF 93 KB] [French PDF 121 KB] [German PDF 119 KB] [Spanish PDF 117 KB]

Full Report [PDF 527 KB]	Summary [PDF 668 KB]

Background Material

• The Case of Dhaka City of Bangladesh
• The Case of Rajshahi Metropolitan City of Bangladesh
• Summary of Findings for the CA 30 City Study - La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia
• Summary Report - Botswana
• CA 30 City Survey Questionnaire - Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, Suzano and Guarulhos Cities
• Summary Report - Cambodia
• Summary Report - Almaty, Central Asia
• Summary Report - Tashkent, Central Asia
• Summary Report - Santiago, Chile
• Summary Report - Shijiazhuang, China
• Summary Report - Zhengzhou, China
• Summary Report - Colombia
• Summary Report - Kenya
  
• CA 30 City Survey - Questionniare For City Data Collection

Photos
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Canal carrying wastewater to fields Hyderabad, 2005 - Photo Credit Sanjini de Silva.	Cultivation using water from the polluted Musi river in Hyderabad, 2005 - Photo credit Sanjini de Silva.	In Ghana, a man draws water for his vegetables from a wastewater stream. Photo credit IWMI, Ghana.
Despite the health risks, wastewater also provides an income to the poor. A woman in India sells leafy vegetables grown with wastewater for a living. Photo Credit Sanjini de Silva.	In Mexico a farmer washes his crops in a river filled with sewage. Photo credit IWMI.	Leafy vegetables grown with wastewater. Polluted water from a nearby latrine poses health risks. Photo credit IWMI, Ghana.
Wastewater dumped into the sea. 85 percent of the cities in the study discharged untreated or partially treated wastewater. Photo credit IWMI, Ghana.	Wastewater poses serious health and environmental risks . IWMI is looking at ways and means of reducing the risks to both farmers and consumers.	Waste water-fall in the Polluted Musi River, Hyderabad. Photo credit Sanjini de Silva.
Buffaloes swim in the polluted water of the Musi River in Hyderabad, India		A cabbage crop grown with wastewater in Accra, Ghana.
Wastewater from the Musi river in Hyderabad, India. Samples are taken from across a 40 kilometer stretch. Water closest to the city is the most polluted. As it flows out through natural wetlands the water gets cleaner. At a distance of 40 km from the city the water is considerably cleaner as seen in the samples.

Posters

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