UTEP World Water Week 25'

Water: States and Transformations

   March  17 - 22,  2025

World Water Day, observed annually on March 2nd since 1993, celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water.

The UTEP One Water Cluster and faculty and staff at UACJ are inviting you to our annual celebration of World Water Day in March 2025. As we have for the past four years, we will celebrate with a week of interdisciplinary events. These events are designed to engage faculty, students, and community partners who are working on the issue of water from various perspectives. This creates a public platform to increase visibility of water scholarship and activism. It also provides an opportunity to develop new connections and working relationships on the topic. We expect to have a mixture of online and in-person events. 

This year’s theme is: “Water: States and Transformations”.

Water Week 2025 will mobilize the multiple meanings of these terms to explore the role of water within the institutional frameworks that govern its access, use, and distribution. We urge contributions that interrogate how nation-states, agencies, and organizations shape or respond to global inequalities, water conservation, and emerging technologies, while emphasizing transformative solutions to the environmental and socio-political challenges of water scarcity and governance.

• Deadline to submit proposals: January 13, 2025
• Proposal notification - January 23, 2025
• Event calendar assignments - January 31, 2025
• Open registration - TBD
• World Water Week 2025 - March 17-22

We invite community members, artists, students, scholars, groups, and organizations to submit a proposal to share work through an interdisciplinary session on Monday, 3/17, Tuesday, 3/18, or Thursday, 3/20. We would like to stress that this is not a traditional academic conference – we encourage you to submit proposals for non-traditional formats, highlight work in progress or new ideas, and raise questions in your activity that might foster new ways of thinking about the topic of water from multiple perspectives, with a particular emphasis on this year’s urgent theme.

Possible formats include: 

• Artistic or literary performances by one or more individuals engaging with the conference's annual theme; 
• Roundtables/public conversations with diverse expertise exploring water from a multi-disciplinary lens; interactive workshops to illustrate scientific principles or present creative visualizations about water issues;
• Panels that include both academics, activists and/or community members working on similar water problems from their different perspectives;

Workshops that provide practical information on how we can conserve and protect the quality of water, ensure water distribution and livability particularly in border and contested areas, etc.

Fill out the online Google form (link below) by no later than Monday, January 13, 2025. We will respond to proposals by January 23, 2025, and follow up with the final schedule no later than January 31, 2025. 

Google form (English version): https://forms.gle/GRZgXDgGxJgfH8WV8 

Google form (Spanish version): https://forms.gle/Ljny5aWHMDzPpaQ57 

Thanks from all of us from the UTEP and UACJ Organizing Committee, the UTEP One Water Cluster, the Center for Environmental Resource Management, the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, and the Centennial Museum at UTEP.