Global Water Forum

The Global Water Forum was established in 2010 as an initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance in order to present knowledge and insight from leading water researchers and practitioners.

The contributions provide evidence-based, accessible and freely available articles looking at local, regional and global water challenges. Specifically, the goals of the Global Water Forum are to:

• support capacity building through knowledge sharing;
• provide a means for informed, unbiased discussion of potentially contentious issues;
• provide a means for discussion of important issues that receive less attention than they deserve;
• create a high quality resource for water practitioners that is accessible and freely available across the world.

To reach these goals, the Global Water Forum seeks to:

• present fact and evidence-based insights;
• make the results of academic research freely available to those outside of academia;
• investigate a broad range of issues within water management;
• provide a more in-depth analysis than is commonly found in public media.