The Water Consensus - Reference Material

Seminar Papers

Seminar 5, Overview - beyond the consensus

The fifth and final seminar was held at the University of Bradford on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 February 2006, attended by a range of academics, practitioners and staff from development agencies.

• Seminar 5, Overview - beyond the consensus

Seminar 4, What's water got to do with it? Scarcity, vulnerability, and environmental change

The fourth seminar, "What's water got to do with it? Scarcity, vulnerability, and environmental change" was held in London on 21 October 2005. Presentations from this seminar can be accessed at the Overseas Development Institute Water Programme page.

Seminar 3, Politics, Institutions and Participation

The third seminar, “Politics, Institutions and Participation” was held at ISS, the Hague, on 27th and 28th June 2005.

• Seminar 3, Politics, Institutions and Participation

Seminar 2, Access to Poverty and Social Exclusion

The second seminar, on the topic “Access, Poverty and Social Exclusion” was held at ODI in London on March 1st 2005. The papers from the seminar can be found at http://www.odi.org.uk/wpp/News_Events/ESRC.html.

Seminar 1, Identifying the Gaps

The launch seminar of this ESRC funded seminar series was held at the Bradford Centre for International Development on 18-19 November 2004.

• Seminar 1, Identifying the Gaps

Background Resources

1. The idea for this ESRC-funded seminar series grew out of the Alternative Water Forum, hosted by the Bradford Centre for International Development at Bradford University in May 2003. This forum, which was held to complement the Third World Water Forum in Kyoto, brought together academics and practitioners to discuss the emerging consensus in water development, and to critically examine the underlying assumptions and generalities. Papers from the Alternative Water Forum can be found at:
   http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/bcid/seminar/alternative_water/papers/
2. 2005-2015 has been declared as the International Decade for Action – Water for Life. Further details can be found on the website, which also has useful links to other official sites such as the Millennium Declaration, the Millennium Development Goals and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
   http://www.gdrc.org/uem/water/decade_05-15/
3. The UN has established the Millennium Project “to recommend the best strategies for achieving the MDGs”. The report of the task force on water and sanitation can be found at:
   http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_watersanitation.htm

The next opportunity to engage (at a formal level) with the international water consensus will be at the Fourth World Water Forum held in Mexico in March 2006. For more information, please see the World Water Forum website (http://www.worldwaterforum4.org.mx).

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