Climate Impacts on Global Mountain Water Security Session
Water Future Conference – Towards a Sustainable Water Future
24-27 September 2019, Bengaluru, India

The Sustainable Water Future Programme (Water Future) of Future Earth organized a major international conference of Water Future titled 'Towards a Sustainable Water Future' in Bengaluru, India from September 24 – 27, 2019 (https://water-future.org/news/water_future_conference). The conference was hosted by Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

The conference addressed the current state of global water resource challenges, future pathways and scenarios, and different technological, institutional solutions to accelerate the implementation of water-related Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda targets with an aim of 'leaving no one behind'. Several hundred participants from across the globe attended the conference thus giving a major opportunity for academics, water practitioners, policymakers, scientists, civil society and government officials to discuss the direction that the global science community should take in order to solve myriad of challenges affecting our water systems in real time, and develop new frontiers for innovative solutions.

Members of INARCH convened a session at this conference titled “Climate Impacts on Global Mountain Water Security”. This session addressed some of the broad aims of INARCH and of a recently formed working group within Future Earth with the same name (https://water-future.org/working_groups/climate-impacts-on-global-mountain-water-security).

A short summary of the session is here.