The Valletta Forum 2009

Valletta Forum 2009 is focused on Water: Management and Sustainable Capacity Development in the Mediterranean, where water has shaped the environment and economies since the earliest times.  

With 3% of the world’s freshwater resources and more than half the world’s water poor population, the effects of climate change, shifting rainfall patterns, urban expansion, intensive agriculture, over-extraction from aquifers, mass tourism and pollution are fuelling a potential crisis in the region.

It is has been proposed that the ever increasing demand could be met by limiting environmental impact through a significant improvement in water management and sustainable capacity building.

The Valletta Forum 2009 seeks to investigate this proposal. Topics expected to be covered over the two-days include:

·        Sea-water desalinization

·        Waste-to-water and remote area sanitation

·        Aquifer management and replenishment

·        Water ethics and regulatory concerns

·        Project funding

·    Renewable energy usage in water management and sustainable capacity building