Study Background

World Water Week in Stockholm is considered the leading annual global meeting place for capacity-building, partnership-building, and follow-up on the implementation of international processes and programs in water and development. The theme of this year’s conference is “progress and prospects on water: striving for sustainability in a changing world.”  Prior to attending the conference, I would like to target some core areas surrounding water issues, read, study, and find some connections in Seattle/Pacific Northwest surrounding these issues.

Study Learning Goals:

• To develop a better understanding of two target water issues and to discover how capacity- building and partnerships have affected those issues.
• To become familiar with water issues in the Pacific Northwest and to compare those issues with water issues in other parts of the world. 
• To take part in a world-wide conference with people from numerous nations, diverse backgrounds, and diverse interests, but who share a common concern.
• To recognize why and how partnerships and capacity-building have been used to facilitate change within an international context. 
• To understand how I fit in.

Foundational Reading:

• Gleick, Peter (2006) The World’s Water 2006-2007: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources. Washington D.C.: Island Press.
• Harden, Blaine (1996) A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia River. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

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