Invitation to World Water Week 2025 Session on the Global Hydrological Cycle
Cindy Eiritz
Dear ERA Members,
On behalf of Ase Johannessen, PhD, the
Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW), the
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), and the International Water
Management Institute (IWMI), I’m reaching out to warmly invite you to join a
session they are organizing for World Water Week 2025. They would be honoured if you would consider
participating in the session:
“The Global Hydrological Cycle – A Common Good
Requiring Systemic Cooperation”
🗓 Date:
Thursday 28 August 2025
🕑 Time:
14:00–15:30
📍 Location:
Room A2, Level 6, and Online
🔢 Session
ID: 12303
Registration:
• Please register for online participation here: World
Water Week 2025: Register now
• Online participation is free. SIWI will share connection details
closer to the date.
This session is a strategic spin-off of the
2024 report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW), with a
particular focus on Green Water and its essential role in stabilizing
the hydrological cycle.
The aim is to explore how we can govern the global hydrological cycle as a common good. A unique feature of this session is its effort to bridge often-disconnected communities - atmospheric science, land-use management, and hydrology - and to raise the visibility of the small water cycle and its transboundary significance. The organisers also hope to contribute to the positioning of Green Water in the lead-up to the 2026 UN Water Conference. More details are in the attached background note.
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Please join the pre-conference discussion - here It’s shaping up to be a powerful conversation,
with scientists, practitioners, policymakers and Indigenous leaders all working together to chart a path forward.
warmest regards,
Cindy
Cindy Eiritz
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Cindy Eiritz
A reminder that this session is on this Thursday. If you register you can watch the recording.
On 28 August (14:00–15:30, Room A2, Level 6 & Online), join a landmark session:
“The Global Hydrological Cycle – A Common Good Requiring Systemic Cooperation.”
🔗 Register (online participation is free): https://lnkd.in/gQ9Y7bN
This is the only dedicated Green Water session at World Water Week — a critical moment to put this long-overlooked dimension of the water cycle on the global agenda.
What is Green Water?
Green Water refers to the rainwater that infiltrates into soils, is held by vegetation, and then returns to the atmosphere through plants (via evapotranspiration). It drives the small water cycle, regenerating local rainfall, stabilizing climate extremes, and cooling landscapes. In short - restoring Green Water means restoring water cycles.
The session builds on the Global Commission on the Economics of Water’s call to govern the hydrological cycle as a global common good. It will:
✔️ Highlight 50+ years of Green Water science
✔️ Recognize Indigenous stewardship in safeguarding the small water cycle
✔️ Explore how systemic land-use and water governance can restore climate, ecosystems, food, and water security
✔️ Shape recommendations for the 2026 UN Water Conference
Keynote presentations
• “50+ years of Green Water science” – Ase Johannessen, PhD, Deltares
• “Indigenous land and water stewardship’s contribution to atmospheric rivers” – Malin Lundberg Ingemarsson, Stockholm International Water Institute & Lauren Andersen, Potsdam Institute
Panel discussion: Looking for cooperative approaches to integrate Green Water in governance and the economy
• Stefan Uhlenbrook – Director, World Meteorological Organisation
• Sonja Koeppel – Secretary of the Water Convention & co-Secretary of the Protocol on Water and Health, UNECE Water & Climate Taskforce
• Natalie Topa – Global Adviser for Regenerative Resilience, World Food Programme
• Yolanda-Lopez Maldonado – Researcher & Indigenous Peoples representative
• Walter Jehne – Internationally recognised soil microbiologist & plant ecologist
• Martin Kovac – Co-author, The New Water Paradigm
• Zach Weiss – Practitioner in watershed restoration & ecosystem regeneration
• Isaac Monjo Chavula – Director, Tiyeni
Moderated by Inga Jacobs-Mata, International Water Management Institute
👉 This is a unique chance for scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and advocates to come together and chart collective action on the hydrological cycle.
warmest regards
Cindy
Cindy Eiritz
Thanks so much for your interest - it’s an honor to have an author and journalist of your caliber involved. I agree there is so much there it is a challenge to navigate. After I registered, I received several emails. One on 24 August, titled Welcome to World Water Week 2025, says…
Over the next five days, you can tune in to hundreds of sessions on diverse water and climate-related topics. Use the search functionality in the programme to find the subjects that you’re most interested in.
Can’t join live? Don’t worry, you can also watch the session recordings in your own time
I've also found these sessions which look good
Thanks again for your interest
warmest regards
Cindy
Hi Cindy, or anyone else, I signed up but couldn't see whether the sessions would be available to participants later? 2 p.m. in Stockholm is 5 a.m. on the West Coast of North America.eErica GiesAuthor of Water Always Wins: https://slowwater.world/Independent journalistNational Geographic ExplorerRachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental JournalismLiving in and acknowledging the homelands of the Songees and Esquimalt nations of the Coast Salish peoples (aka Victoria, BC) and the Yelamu, a local tribe of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples (aka San Francisco).
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Cindy Eiritz
Hi Cindy:Thank you! Could you clarify if the class time is EST or PST or something else?Best, Rob
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM Cindy Eiritz <ci...@regenerate-earth.org> wrote:
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