The online Youth Water Congress held between 6-8 April 2022. It is co-organized by the UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) together with UNESCO Centre on Integrated and Multidisciplinary Water Resources Management (CIMWRM), hosted by the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), the Aristotle University (AUTh), and the Youth Delegates to the World Water Council (YDWWC). 

More than 650 attendees from 84 countries, 17 mentors from 15 countries, as well as 5 keynote experts contributed with their innovative ideas, experience, and knowledge. These e-proceedings include fifty-two (52) extended abstracts of 169 authors

The past years are characterized by significant changes in planning, design and management of water resources all over the planet. Structural changes, demographic alterations, technological breakthroughs, expanding populations, climate shifts, demands, the energy crisis, the water crisis, the pandemic and also war all around us set the current scene of complexity, uncertainty and interdependence we are experiencing. All, highlight a pressing need to develop alternative schemes for managing in an integrated way the scarce natural (water) resources.