The Pan-European Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 2023 UN Water conference will be organized as a hybrid meeting on 12-13 April 2022, in Geneva and online.

The Regional Preparatory Meeting will provide a platform for UNECE member States and stakeholders to review progress and showcase effective ways to implement the goals and objectives of the International Water Action Decade, and water-related goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The meeting is organized in cooperation with UN-Water and will discuss issues such as access to water and sanitation, transboundary and intersectoral water cooperation, ecosystem and biodiversity conservation, pollution prevention, floods and droughts, financing water, circular economy etc.