Xylem to host workshops, support water prize at World Water Week 2017  

At World Water Week 2017 in Stockholm, Xylem will lead and participate in forums focused on accelerating the smarter management of water and wastewater. Taking place from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1, World Water Week will focus on the theme of “Water and Waste: Reduce and Reuse” and be attended by more than 3,000 professionals from some 300 businesses, agencies and non-governmental organizations.

On August 27, Xylem is co-convening a forum entitled “Data Drought: An Assessment of Global Hydrological Monitoring Systems” along with Duke University, the Aspen Institute and the University of Oxford. This multi-stakeholder discussion will assess the severe decline in critical global water monitoring infrastructure, explore the challenges and solutions to up-scaling this infrastructure as well as the implications of non-action, and define next steps for collaboration. The session will be led by Albert Cho, Xylem’s Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Alex Fischer of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at University of Oxford, and Martin Doyle of Duke University and the Aspen Institute.