Why Water Week?
Stockholm launch: 26 August 2026
Water connects us all.
Building a more water-secure future starts with all of us.
Water Week is a growing global initiative to help build a world where water is valued, protected and accessible for everyone, everywhere.
Water Week 2027 has a focus on engagement in projects with schools and communities in the UK.
UN Water Action Decade 2018–2028Developed in support of the UN Water Action Decade. Building the social infrastructure for a more water-secure future.
What is Water Week?
One global framework. Locally relevant action.
My Water Story
Everyone has a relationship with water.
The next generation
The next generation. Our greatest hope.
Life depends on water. But a water-secure world is possible — with knowledge, connection and action. That's why Water Week exists.
By inspiring curiosity, building understanding and equipping young people with the tools to lead, Water Week aims to create a world where everyone, everywhere has the opportunity to thrive.
Children, young people and educators are at the heart of what we do.
Investing in infrastructure. Investing in people.
News & Stories
News & Stories
Consultation
United Kingdom
Water Week takes shape through UK consultation and collaboration
Expertise from across water, education, government, science and the creative industries is helping shape how Water Week can inspire people to understand, value and protect water.
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Upcoming · Stockholm · 26 August 2026
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Water Week to be introduced at SIWI World Water Week 2026
A 90-minute session, Building the Social Infrastructure for Water Security, will bring together voices from across water, education, science, engineering, storytelling and public participation.
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UK Blueprint
Next phase
From consultation to action: building the UK Blueprint for Water Week
The UK will provide the first national blueprint for Water Week, turning ideas, partnerships and learning gathered through consultation into a practical framework for action.
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What Water Week does
What Water Week does
Connects
Bringing people, organisations and communities together across the water system.
Educates
Turning knowledge into understanding through inspiring learning.
Empowers
Equipping the next generation with skills, confidence and agency.
Tells our stories
Sharing diverse stories that inspire, inform and spark action.
Drives impact
From local action to global change for a water-secure future.
Shaped together
Water Week is being built collaboratively.
Water Week brings together organisations with different expertise, perspectives and reach to help shape and support its development.
Founding organisation
Wastebuster
Founder and Secretariat of Water Week
UK Founding Partners
Session Collaborators — SIWI World Water Week 2026
How Water Week works
One global framework. A virtuous circle of action and learning.
Water Week provides a shared framework that can work for people, schools, communities, organisations and places. Wherever the journey begins, learning leads to discovery and action; action creates impact, evidence and new stories; and what we learn can be shared to inspire and improve what happens next — locally, nationally and globally.
Local action. National partnerships. Global learning.
Connected communities, partners and solutions for a water-secure future.
Act. Learn.
Share. Improve.
Learn
Discover
Act
Recognise
Adopt
Measure
Share
From source to sea
From source to sea. Everyone has a Water Story.
Water Week is growing through conversations, partnerships and early action around the world. From the UK to the Global South, with communities, organisations and young people shaping what comes next for water. And we're just at the beginning.
Join us in creating a world where everyone has the opportunity to thrive through water for people, nature and a better future.
FOR GOVERNMENTS
Building awareness and strengthening engagement
Building awareness and strengthening engagement for water through education and public participation.
For organisations
Working together across sectors
Working together across sectors to build knowledge, share learning and accelerate impact.
For everyone
You have a part to play
Whether you have a Water Story, are a school or a community — you have a part to play.
Explore Water Week
See the connections. Discover what's happening.
From global stories and solutions to national partnerships and local action, the Water Week map will connect people, projects, knowledge and impact across a growing global network.
United KingdomScotlandWalesEnglandNorthern EuropeEastern EuropeSouth AsiaEast AsiaSouthern AfricaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaAustralia
Search locations, projects or stories…
Example project
River restoration in the Wye catchment
Herefordshire, UK · Community project
Map in development
- Stories
- Projects & Activities
- Solutions
- Partners
- Impact
In development — coming soon
Explore. Connect. Take action.
Use the map to discover what's happening, find opportunities to get involved and see the difference we're making.
Stories
Discover Water Stories from people, communities and organisations.
Projects & Activities
Find opportunities to participate and see what is happening locally.
Solutions
Discover relevant products, services, expertise and practical solutions.
Partners
Explore organisations contributing knowledge, projects and solutions.
Impact
See participation, outcomes and the collective difference being created.
Being built together
Bringing different perspectives to one shared challenge.
Water Week is being developed in support of the aims of the UN Water Action Decade 2018–2028. We're building with — not for — communities and partners across the world.
- 24,000+
- schools in the wider global education network
- 94
- countries represented across the network
- 180+
- organisations engaged in consultation and development
- Consultation ongoing
- with further voices actively invited to help shape what comes next
