Water Resources Resilience for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

GRRN Partner hosted event

Background: The Water Efficiency Conference is a bi-annual conference hosted by The Water Efficiency Network (WATEF) which aims to foster knowledge exchange and transfer between academia, researchers and industry practitioners. This year, the theme of the conference is Water Resources Resilience for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The conference will be held online and in person in Trinidad & Tobago from the 14th – 16th December, 2022 in collaboration with The University of the West Indies.

Conference Topics

• Bringing resilience to life
• Capacity building for climate & environmental change
• Community responses to environmental hazards
• Collaboration, partnerships & relationships
• Customer, citizen, and community innovation
• Drought-flood continuum
• Ecosystem services
• Efficiency-equity nexus
• ICT for water
• Innovation in product, practice, process, protocol or policy
• Integrated resource efficiency & resilience
• Knowledge making & social change
• Local, regional and global case studies
• Public engagement and participatory processes
• Smart & resilient water, communities, cities
• Smart processes, technologies, systems
• Supply chain standards & processes
• Water efficiency-data-driven, household, non-household, including SMEs
• Water-energy, water-energy-food nexus
• Water leadership and governance
• Water reuse and recycling
• Water, Sanitation and Health (WASH) in temporary settlements and emergencies
• Other associated topics not listed above

Special sessions will also include

• Water Security Challenges & Strategies in the 21st Century
• Flooding Resilience against Climate Change