VIDEO From Synaptic Digital and SIWI: World Water Week in Stockholm Seeks Solutions to Global Water Challenges

NEW YORK, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm, held September 5-11, gathered a record 2600 participants from 130 different countries. The focus of this year's event was on water quality and its links to human and environmental health, but several other water related issues were on the agenda during the week-long conference: Sanitation and disease prevention, strategies for climate change, the issue of water as a human right and ways of collaborating around transboundary water resources. This year's conference particularly highlighted the crucial links between clean water, development and poverty reduction.

See video from SIWI at: http://inr.synapticdigital.com/water_37541

The World Water Week in Stockholm, organized annually by the Stockholm International Water Institute, brings together water experts, decision makers, UN representatives, business actors, NGOs and academia, providing a unique platform for bridging perspectives and finding common solutions to global water issues.

The 2011 World Water Week will look closer at our urbanizing world, exploring the challenges and opportunities connected to the growing cities around the globe.

For journalist resources, further information about the World Water Week and how to participate in the 2011 event, visit www.worldwaterweek.org/media. Broadcast quality video material is available at http://www.thenewsmarket.com/SIWI.

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SOURCE Synaptic Digital; SIWI