Eye on Asia at World Water Week 2009 in Stockholm

摘要

The convergence of climate change with crises in food and finance makefinding solutions to the world's growingwater problems more urgent than ever.Nowhere is this more evident than inthe Asia-Pacific region, where severalhundred million people suffer fromunsafe drinking water, inadequatesanitation, polluted river systems, flooddisasters and more. At the 2009 WorldWater Week in Stockholm, August 16-22, hosted by the Stockholm Interna-tional Water Institute, Asia's responseto the challenges at hand will be infocus.