Upcoming events.
2026 UN Water Conference
The 2026 UN Water Conference will take place from 2-4 December, 2026, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Conference, co-hosted by Senegal and the UAE, aims to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), enhance global water governance, and further elevate water-related issues on the international agenda.
The upcoming UN Water Conference presents a singular opportunity for global leadership. WWFF is actively building partnerships to ensure that narrative and storytelling are central to the discussions. By aligning with WWFF, your organization can contribute to and shape the narrative around the conference's six core themes:
Water for People: Showcasing the human right to water and sanitation.
Water for Prosperity: Highlighting the role of water in economic development.
Water for Planet: Telling the stories of climate resilience and ecosystem protection.
Water for Cooperation: Documenting successful transboundary and scientific partnerships.
Water in Multilateral Processes: Supporting the achievement of SDG 6.
Investments for Water: Demonstrating the impact of innovative financing and technology.
A partnership with WWFF provides a direct and impactful way to engage with these themes and demonstrate your commitment to a water-secure future.
Conversation, Talk, and Debate on Agrochemicals in Agro-Ecosystems
In support World Water Day in Cordoba, Argentina!
Event Description:
Conversation, talk, and debate on agrochemicals in agro-ecosystems, including a screening of Veronica Lutri’s IGRAC documentary ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’, about aquifer contamination in Córdoba.
After the talk and discussion, we will screen the WWFF documentaries.
Date: Tuesday, March 17 (in the lead-up to World Water Day)
Location: Aula Magna, Faculty of Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences, National University of Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
Hosted By: Veronica Lutri
WEX Global - 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘴 𝘞𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥!
World Water Film Festival at WEX-Global
Vision to Action – Realising a World of Water Abundance
World Water Film Festival is proud to be an Educational Impact Partner at the 2026 WEX-Global Conference, February 9-11, 2026.
Aurelie Rodzynek, WWFF board of directors, will be representing World Water Film Festival at WEX Global.
Eleanor Treadwell, co-founder of AFR’EAU, will join us as we screen their organization's film, Dji Mansa, to discuss using film to secure financial and policy support for their work to clean the Niger River.
Monday, February 9 - Day One at WEX Global 2026
🎬 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 1 – 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 13:30 – 14:00PM
Water is Us – a one-minute visual short
KNOWING – a visual poem by Erika E. Wade as part of Alabama Rivers Alliance’s Southern Exposure Film Series
Take Care, Tar Creek – experimental short documentary told from the voice of water to humans
🎬 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 2 – 𝘼𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 15:30 – 15:55PM
The Right to Know – from the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters
YUMA: The Winter Salad Bowl – from Desert Ag Solutions
🎬 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 3 – 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙤𝙥𝙚: 𝙎𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙃𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩 19:35 – 20:00PM
Cracked – a short narrative drama featuring a little girl from Turkey
Intsikelelo Yamanzi – a short narrative drama featuring a little boy from South Africa
World Water Film Festival Overview Video
Tuesday, February 10 - Day Two at WEX Global 2026
Introduced by Aurélie Rodzynek (WWFF) and Eleanor Treadwell (Co-Founder of AFREAU)
🎬 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 4 – 𝙉𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙣 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙆𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 & 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 | 11:30 – 12:00
The Hōteo Sediment Reduction Project – Water New Zealand
Dji Mansa: Bambara for “Water Masters” – AFR’EAU
🎬 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 5 – 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙣 | 15:50 – 16:20
The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa – Corporate Europe Observatory
Rethinking Water UK 2025
World Water Film Festival is coming to London to Rethinking Water's UK conference featuring a selection of short films. Rethinking Water UK is hosted by SciensWater and University of Cambridge.
What About the Drinking Water
Director: Tiffany Westry Womack
Producers: Kelly Marshall, Michael Forman
Southern Exposure Film, Alabama Rivers Alliance - 2022, 16:03 min
Clean Water for All
Director: Benjamin Dix
Producer: Karrie Fransman
PositiveNegatives - 2023, 5:32min
Instikelelo Yamanzi
Directors: Michelle Name, Onke Meje
Producers: Katie Taylor, Matsidiso Daniels, Busisiwe Ngubane
Film School Africa - 2024, 7:34min
SLUDGE - PFAS Uprising
Director: Jeffrey Christian
Producers: Matthew Modine, Kiera Howard, Amanda Christian, Jeffery Christian, Muchael Pagano
Side Road Media - 2023, 26:23min
Sponge Cities
Director: Ruán Magan
Producers: Paul O’Callaghan, Doug Blush
Brave Blue World Foundation, BlueTech Research - 2024, 6:03min
Screening of the Documentary 'Our Blue World' - Buenos Aires
Screening of the Documentary ‘Our Blue World’
November 19th at the UN Delta (University of the Delta) at 14:00
Screening of the documentary ‘Our Blue World’
Av. Avellaneda 2270, B1645 Virreyes, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Screening of the Documentary 'Our Blue World' - Buenos Aires
Screening of the documentary Our Blue World
November 18th at the Museo Moderno: 17:00 – 19:00 | Teachers’ Activity
Debate with participation of IGRAC, AIDIS
Av. San Juan 350, C1147AAO Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
World Toilet Day - Buenos Aires
November 13, 2025 – Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires
Organized by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, the Museo Moderno, the Argentine Chamber of Water, and the World Water Film Festival, this event will convene students, teachers, experts, and international organizations for a day of awareness, learning, and dialogue on water, sanitation, and hygiene in the framework of World Toilet Day.
WEFTEC
The World Water Film Festival will be attending WEFTEC, the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference, the largest annual water quality event in the world. This year’s conference takes place from September 27 to October 1, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois.
World Water Film Festival will be at booth #6348 during the exhibition. On the morning of October 1, WWFF Founder Robert Strand will be speaking at the Global Center.
WEFTEC brings together water professionals from around the world to exchange knowledge and explore the latest technologies, solutions, and practices shaping the future of water.
'How To Poison A Planet' Panel Discussion Live Stream
Live Stream Interdisciplinary Expert Panel Discussion
We will be Live Streaming the panel discussion on 9/23 at 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST on our website worldwaterff.org
Henk Ovink – Executive Director of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water and former Special Envoy for International Water Affairs, recognized worldwide for redefining water as central to climate, equity, and security.
Mae Stevens – Chair of Water Infrastructure Practice at Banner Public Affairs and Founder of Safe Water Voters, a leading national voice driving PFAS regulation, federal water investment, and environmental justice.
Dr. Upmanu Lall – Director of the Water Institute at Arizona State University and Professor in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems; former Director of the Columbia Water Center, leading global initiatives on water sustainability and resilience.
Gary Douglas – Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame attorney and lead counsel in the first federal PFAS case, securing a landmark $12.5B settlement with 3M.
Rebecca Newman – Senior Associate at Douglas & London P.C., specializing in environmental toxic tort litigation and a core member of the PFAS legal team.
Amara Strande fought to ban PFAS while dying of cancer. Now, Minnesota has the nation's strictest law that has been passed. Amara's father, Michael, and sister, Nora, will continue her advocacy and join us from Minnesota to share their experience.
For more on their story check out the CBS news segment on them:
What are PFAS?
PFAS—our so-called “forever chemicals”—are everywhere: flowing through our water, seeping into our soil, and coursing silently through our blood. Once invisible, they now carry a staggering toll—cancer, infertility, immune collapse—while billion-dollar lawsuits and community uprisings reveal just how deep the damage runs. Science is racing to catch up, and the truth is unavoidable: the PFAS crisis is one of the greatest public health and environmental reckonings of our time.
For more on this film and to view the trailer visit:
Join the Conversation
This crisis touches every one of us. Join the conversation, stand with the community, and help drive the call for clean, safe, and just water systems.
Thank you to our sponsor SciensWater for making this program possible! For more on Sciens Water visit https://scienswater.com/
‘How to Poison a Planet’ Screening During NYC Climate Week
The Truth Behind the PFAS Crisis
Tuesday, September 23rd 6PM to 10PM
Location: DCTV 87 Lafayette St, NY NY
Award-winning documentary How to Poison a Planet, featuring Mark Ruffalo, exposes the chemical industry’s long standing knowledge of the danger of “forever chemicals” and reveals the human cost in communities around the world.
Watch On Demand 9/21 - 9/25
Interdisciplinary Expert Panel Adressing Economics, Policy, Education and Law
Special Guests: Amara Strande’s Father and Sister
Including Water Sommelier, Milin Patel, Water Tasting
Video-On-Demand 'How To Poison A Planet'
Watch ‘How To Poison A Planet’ On Demand | Available 9/21 - 9/25 ONLY
About the film
With behind-the-scenes access to the largest litigation involving drinking water in American history, How to Poison A Planet investigates how the use of a product as seemingly harmless as firefighting foam has resulted in the contamination of communities all over the world. Spanning from the heart of New York City to a small First Nations community in Australia the film exposes one of the most widespread environmental disasters in human history.
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 1hr 18min
Released: 2024
Director: Katrina McGowan
Producer: Katrina McGowan, Janine Hosking, Mathew Cornwell
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Rob Bilott, Gary Douglas, Ned McWilliams, Carrie Fellner, Matthew Sims, Theresa Ardler
Community Movie Night - Swimmable Cities
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Community Movie Night at Swimmable Cities Summit
How to Poison a Planet (Chicago)
Award-winning documentary How to Poison a Planet, featuring Mark Ruffalo, exposes the chemical industry’s long standing knowledge of the danger of “forever chemicals” and reveals the human cost in communities around the world.
Short Film Feature: The Disappearing Man
Documentary Feature: How to Poison a Planet
Panel Discussion to follow with:
𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘁, environmental attorney, Taft Law
𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀, lead counsel in the $12.5B 3M settlement, 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀 & 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻, 𝗣.𝗖.
𝗗𝗿. 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗻, a Crown Family Professor of Molecular Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and lead water strategist at Argonne National Laboratory
𝗥𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗺𝗮𝗻, Senior Associate, 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀 & 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻, 𝗣.𝗖.
𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲, father of Amara Strande, featured in the film
𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, moderator (Chief Executive Officer, 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁)
Date: May 5, 2025
Doors Open: 6:30pm
Program: 7pm-9pm
Location:
Jones College Prep Theater in the South Building
700 South State Street, Chicago, IL, 60605
World Water Day - Guangzhou, China
Screening with Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands