The global water system is in crisis.

Despite safe water and sanitation being a human right, 3.6 billion people lack access to these essentials for life, according to the World Meteorological Organisation. This is directly linked to the process of global warming. The relevance of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: “Ensuring the sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” is outstanding and therefore, the UN 2023 Water Conference in March this year marked the halfway point through the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable Development”.

For this reason, the Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre (ABCD-Centre) led by TU Dresden and part of the Global Centre Initiative of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is organizing the Water Security and Climate Adaptation Conference (WSCA 2023) from 4^th to 8^th October. The conference will bring together partners from science, industry, private sector, and policy, to focus on sustainable development and implementation of climate adaptation measures especially in the water sector. 

Hosted by our partners at IIT-Madras in Chennai/India the conference comprises a total of 20 sessions with topics ranging from Coastal Water Body and Infrastructure Protection over Risk Evaluation, Mapping and Building Resilience to Sustainable and Equitable Deficit Management.

• read the resulting White Paper of the official side event by the ABCD-Centre at the UN 2023 Water Conference 
• learn about the official side event on "Leveraging Postgraduate Education for Sustainable Development: The Resource-Nexus and Environmental Management in Global South Partnerships" by TU Dresden and the United Nations University at the SDG-Summit 2023

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