The World Water Forum is the largest gathering in the world focused on water use, management, and policy. It meets every three years, and regularly engages 25,000 people from every corner of the globe in a week of dialogue on issues ranging from the right to water and sanitation, the impacts of climate change on water resources, and alternative governance arrangements – among many other topics.

Since spring 2011, the Center has been working with the Secretariat of the 6^th World Water Forum – which will be convened in March 2012 in Marseille, France -- to (1) mobilize and engage political and water leaders from the U.S. American West; and (2) prepare a policy report that tells the story of innovative solutions and institutional responses to water problems in the U.S. American West, .

For more information on the World Water Forum, go to http://www.worldwaterforum6.org.

This project was recently featured on the Montana Watershed Coordinating Council's website, in the "Latest News" section. 

Click here to read an account of the experience of federal officials, state legislators, and representatives of Native American Tribes, an international water commission, and a conservation organization as they shared the story of water management in the U.S. American West at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France, in March 2012.

Water in the U.S. American West