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PLOS BLOGS Speaking of Medicine and Health

Announcing World Water Week, 5-11 September 2010, Stockholm.

Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS

The theme this year is “Responding to Global Changes: The Water Quality Challenge – Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement.” The stated intention of the meeting is “to deepen the understanding of, stimulate ideas on, and engage the water community around the challenges related to water quality” (for more on the scope of the meeting, see http://www.worldwaterweek.org/purposeandscope). The full program, which includes over a hundred plenary sessions, workshops, seminars, and other events, can be navigated through the organizer’s Event Finder at http://www.worldwaterweek.org/sa/node.asp?node=750 or downloaded at http://www.worldwaterweek.org/documents/WWW_PDF/2010/Final_programme_2010_web.pdf.

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