Colombo, Sri Lanka, was the host city for the fifth IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhbition 1-5 December 2019 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall. It brought together around 3000 participants from the water sector from 90 countries to discuss and plan for a sustainable future.
Photo: IWA The programme covered 5 main topics in workshops, symposiums, forums, posters, over the course of four days
We decided to host a project meeting for the WaSo group during the congress, and participants from both WaSo Asia and WaSo Africa came together, focusing on the future of the project both in the coming year and a phase-II of the WaSo project.
WaSo Africa and Asia participants after the meetingThe current IWA Executive Director, Prof. Kala Vairavamoorthy (left), also attended the meeting and gave each partner university a certificate of membership in the IWA. In this photo Prof. Francis Mutua and Ms. Elsa Ouma received the certificate for University of Nairobi, Kenya, together with Prof. Harsha Ratnaweera from Norway Ms Dorina Keji, Dr. Ronald Semyalo, Ms Elsa Ouma, and Prof. Mafizur RahmanAttending the Water Harmony workshop on Wednesday 4 DecemberWaSo participants from Makerere University, Addis Ababa University, University of Nairobi, University of Juba, and Institute of Technology of Cambodia, attending a workshop Photo: Tone Jøran Oredalen, USN
