Start Date : 26 Nov 09   End Date : 26 Nov 09 Location: ADB Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Sustainable, efficient and equitable management of water resources has never been as important as in today's world. More than ever, it is the world's water and wastewater utilities that are central to achieving global goals of environmental protection and universal access to water and sanitation services.

As the providers of drinking water for the majority of the world's population, water operators have great power to communicate, show by example, and inspire their customers about the urgent need to act in solidarity towards common environmental and development goals.

This role of water operators/utilities as leaders in the efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals and other international commitments on water and sanitation will be the focus of seminar. And the seminar is targeting the water and wastewater utilities in Japan.