International Secretariat for Water's Contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2002

Water Bridges were a site for exchanges, exhibitions, gatherings and celebrations that promoted citizen-centered approaches in water management around the world, thus bridging with the other sustainable development themes.

It was around a small lake, transformed for the occasion in a water garden and a floating exhibition of model sailboats, that the ISW has set up 2 sites:

« L'ARBRE A PALABRES or KGOTLO » that offered five groups the possibility to gather simultaneously and the « PANAPRESS», an open air studio, that offered a space for interviews, recording and broadcasting of radio programs.

The Giant Chess Board

The Garden of Governance provided a space for meetings, dialogue and exhibitions within a natural context. The visitors were able to express their personal vision of Governance through writing, painting, drawing, and equally were able to confront their ideas with different partners.

This citizen's space built around the symbol of the triangle was a meeting place of convergence between different partners of water management: private enterprise, public sector and civil society. This area for meetings, presentations and debates was also a space for exhibitions on the theme: "The entrepreneurs of the future".

Inside the House

Mrs Mitterand and Mr. Petrella

Mr. Oda and his guests

Mrs Nane Annan