Building on the success of the Budapest Water Summit 2013 and 2016, Hungary will host the Summit for the third time in 2019.

The event aims to expose the urgency of tackling the challenges of the emerging water crises, related to the issues of abundant, scarce and polluted waters, including their social, economic, environmental and political consequences. Building on previous findings and recommendations by the High Level Panel on Water and other fora, the Budapest Water Summit 2019 will focus on:

• How to prevent the emerging water crises?
• How to manage the crises where they cannot be prevented?
• What is missing in terms of knowledge, governance, technology, financing, regulations and institutional support?