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IDRA Reykjavik Summit on Water and Climate Change

12th - 14th October 2025

Reykjavík, Iceland

The IDRA 2025 Reykjavik Summit on Water and Climate Change will serve as a vital platform to tackle the urgent challenges of climate change and water scarcity. It will focus on expanding water reuse, advancing innovative desalination solutions, and strengthening the water-energy-food nexus.

Bringing together professionals from diverse sectors—including private, public, financial, industrial, municipal, national, international, and multilateral stakeholders—the summit aims to foster collaboration, drive technological innovation, and develop financing solutions through guarantees, tariffs, and PPP project models. It will emphasize shared responsibility, collective action, integrating renewable energy, increased water reuse in industrial operations, and water stewardship to protect natural resources. Additionally, the summit will highlight the need for institutional and operational capacity building to ensure effective policy implementation, sustainable project execution, and long-term resilience.

By advancing scalable strategies for climate resilience and sustainable water management, the summit will contribute to the efficient and integrated use of vital resources, ensuring their protection on a global scale.

• IDRA Call for technical abstracts & case study submissions

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• Submission Form - Call for thematic session proposals

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The world needs water. Hear what it has to say:

A special word from Fmr. Secretary John F. Kerry, U.S.A. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change

“Most people will first experience the impact of climate change through water. Two billion people already lack access to safely managed drinking water, and this problem is only going to get worse due to the climate crisis. The world is changing.”

– Fmr. Secretary John F. Kerry, United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change

“We know that water security is literally a matter of life and death.”
“Each generation has its own challenges, but no generation has faced such an urgent and formidable challenge as climate change and global warming….This is the battle for our lifetime.”
From the White House, President Kennedy remotely turns on the first Seawater Conversion Plant in Freeport Texas.
“Most people will first experience the impact of climate change through water. Two billion people already lack access to safely managed drinking water, and this problem is only going to get worse due to the climate crisis. The world is changing.”
“We know that water security is literally a matter of life and death.”
“Each generation has its own challenges, but no generation has faced such an urgent and formidable challenge as climate change and global warming….This is the battle for our lifetime.”
From the White House, President Kennedy remotely turns on the first Seawater Conversion Plant in Freeport Texas.
“Most people will first experience the impact of climate change through water. Two billion people already lack access to safely managed drinking water, and this problem is only going to get worse due to the climate crisis. The world is changing.”
“We know that water security is literally a matter of life and death.”
“Each generation has its own challenges, but no generation has faced such an urgent and formidable challenge as climate change and global warming….This is the battle for our lifetime.”

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IDRA partners with Green by Iceland to Advance Global Climate Resilience, join us at 2025 IDRA Reykjavik Summit
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The New Water Era
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Meeting Water Sustainability Challenges
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Subsea Desalination
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Industrial Water
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Beneath the Timeline: An Early Decade
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Digitalization of Water Assets
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The Post Treatment of Desalinated Water
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The Post Treatment of Desalinated Water

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Solar Powered Membrane Distillation
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Water Reuse in Latin America
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From waste to resource – Managing trade effluent discharge
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Fusion Power and the Future of Desalination: A Game-Changer for Energy and Water Security?
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Department of Energy – Abu Dhabi to Address Global Water Scarcity at the IDRA World Congress 2024
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Amendments to Sewerage and Drainage Act
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Low-Cost Water Treatment and its Economic Ripple Effect
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Industrial Wastewater Treatment: A Remedy To Freshwater Scarcity?
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Climate Technology Company Partanna Oasis Joins the Abu Dhabi Sustainable Finance Declaration
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ADNOC, Masdar and Microsoft Release Powering Possible: AI and Energy for a Sustainable Future
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Honoring 50 Years of Innovation in Desalination and Water Reuse

Honoring 50 Years of Innovation in Desalination and Water Reuse

We believe in impactful growth. Desalination and reuse technologies have been changing drastically over the last fifty-few years, and we want to showcase the instrumental role of IDRA and its members in driving this development. Explore the history of change here.

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Honoring 50 Years of Innovation in Desalination and Water Reuse

Honoring 50 Years of Innovation in Desalination and Water Reuse

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Impact in Numbers Created
Through Desalination and
Water Reuse

Climate change is intensifying droughts. Water reuse offers a sustainable solution to meet rising water demands and replenish resources. Around 22,000 desalination plants globally provide clean water to over 300 million people.

What significant developments occurred in the desalination sector?

The global desalination capacity has grown exponentially in recent decades, from 14.5 million cubic meters per day in 2000 to 95 million cubic meters per day in 2019.



Desalination continues to be a pivotal method for securing clean water, particularly in regions experiencing water scarcity. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region leads in desalination capacity, with countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE relying heavily on desalinated water to meet their freshwater needs. In the United States, particularly Florida, California, and Texas, desalination helps supplement water supplies in drought-prone areas. Similarly, Western Australia uses significant desalination plants to combat water scarcity, providing a substantial portion of the region’s drinking water.

As of 2023, the global desalination contracted capacity reached 109.22 million cubic meters per day, facilitated by approximately 22,000 desalination plants worldwide. The capital expenditure (CAPEX) for desalination in 2023 amounted to USD 5,971 million, with a significant increase in new capacity—4.4 million cubic meters per day—contracted in 2022.

Additionally, 356 new desalination plants were awarded between 2022 and 2023, emphasizing the continuous expansion of this vital infrastructure, which now caters to over 300 million individuals globally.

Source: Desal Data and IDRA Desalination & Reuse Handbook 2023-2024
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How is water reuse addressing global water demands and what are the key developments in this sector?

Water reuse is emerging as a critical solution to address growing global water demands, particularly in the face of intensifying droughts due to climate change.

In 2023, the global contracted water reuse capacity reached an impressive 259.33 million cubic meters per day, underscoring the scale of this growing practice. In 2022 alone, 12 million cubic meters per day of new water reuse capacity were contracted, with 89 new water reuse plants awarded.

The substantial investments in operational expenditures (OPEX) for water reuse, which amounted to USD 10,759 million in 2023, demonstrate the financial commitment towards ensuring sustainable and dependable water supplies while conserving natural resources.

Source: Desal Data and IDRA Desalination & Reuse Handbook 2023-2024

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