The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) will be present at World Water Week (WWW) 2024, the main global conference dedicated to water issues, which will take place from August 25 to 29 in Stockholm, Sweden. During the event, ACTO will highlight its initiatives aimed at the integrated management of transboundary water resources, with an emphasis on the Amazon Basin Project, and will play a central role as co-organizer of the sessions focusing on the Americas and the Caribbean, coordinated by the Inter American Development Bank – IDB.

The World Water Week 2024 will feature the theme “Bridging Boundaries: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future”, highlighting the need for collaborative effort to achieve a peaceful and sustainable future. Co-created with leading organizations, World Water Week attracts a diverse mix of participants from many professional backgrounds and all corners of the world, who together develop solutions to the world’s biggest water-related challenges, with topics ranging from food security and health to agriculture, technology, biodiversity and the climate crisis.

The management of Amazonian waters

Representing ACTO, Administrative Director Edith Paredes will speak about the implementation of the Strategic Actions Program for the Integrated Management of the Amazon Basin (SAP), at the seminar “Management for peace and cooperation of shared waters”, which will take place on August 27, at 9 a.m. (Brazilian time), with online transmission. 

The SAP was adopted by the eight ACTO member countries on the basis of a Shared Vision that guides cooperation for participatory management, conservation and protection of Amazonian waters for their multiple use. Since 2021, it has been implemented by ACTO through the Amazon Basin Project, with implementation by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Focus on the Americas and the Caribbean

The organizing committee of the sessions focusing on the Americas and the Caribbean, which are coordinated by the IDB and co-organized by ACTO, has identified five thematic axes to be explored through hybrid and open sessions: 1) Overcoming divisions: A new era for transboundary basin management; 2) Hydro-diplomacy for shared water resources; 3) Sustainable financing for transboundary water resources cooperation; 4) Science and technology; 5) Embracing diversity. The sessions will be hybrid and free of charge.  

Access the full WWW program and register to follow the sessions free of charge and online.