The SIWW, the Singapore International Water Week, will be held in Singapore from 1-5 July 2012. This week is the international gathering for water innovations, an opportunity to exchange best practices and open up to new issues. Organised by the International Water Association (IWA), this event brings together almost 10,000 professionals from the water sector.

The British photographer Edward Horsford has produced a series of ultra-high-speed shots, using balloons filled with water, to immortalise the moment just before the water disperses.

With the world’s largest supply of fresh water, Brazil has many strengths, and yet it must also face various climatic, geopolitical and socio-economic challenges with regard to this resource. With less than 10 days to go until the opening of the RIO+20 Earth Summit, the Waterblog looked into issues related to water in Brazil.

Water is one of the seven critical issues that will be discussed at the Rio+20 Conference. A number of organizations entities are sponsoring events leading up to and during the summit.

A whole village gathered on this tree trunks flot boat to join Brazzaville ascending “the Congo”, the second biggest river in Africa. In spite of the dangerousness of the travel, the river represents the only possible way.