From 9-11 November 2026, IAHS (International Association of Hydrological Sciences), LADSIS Laboratory (Research Laboratory on Socio-Anthropological Differentiations and Social Identities), Faculty of Arts and Humanities Aïn Chock – Hassan II University of Casablanca, and EGU (European Geosciences Union) will be hosting a conference centered around Theme 3 – Cross-Cutting Goals of the current IAHS scientific decade, HELPING – Science For Water Solutions Decade. It will take place in Casablanca, Morocco, at Mohamed Sekkat University Library.

Background

In a time of growing water insecurity and climate uncertainty, bridging global water expertise with local knowledge and visions is more critical than ever. Our conference aims to foster dialogue between researchers, communities, and policymakers, ensuring the co-creation of solutions that are appropriate to the local context and socially and environmentally equitable and sustainable.

By acknowledging and valuing local capacities, we want to strengthen resilience at the grassroots, where the impact of water challenges is most deeply felt. This conference offers a platform for co-creating knowledge, sharing lived experiences, and spotlighting community-driven solutions that often go unrecognized. It aims to bring together researchers from a variety of fields, from socio-hydrology, over numerical modeling, to remote sensing, and aims to explore avenues for how to better integrate local perspectives into a wide range of methodologies, especially those that rarely take them into account. For researchers, it  encourages translational work; for communities, it affirms their agency in shaping water futures. For society at large, it is a call to collaborate across scales for just and lasting water solutions.

This conference will, among other things, foster long-term engagement, leading to greater involvement of hydrologists in science communication and transdisciplinary research, increased community ownership of water solutions, and peer-reviewed publications featuring applied showcases and new theoretical frameworks for inclusive hydrology.

Scientific themes:

• Co-creation of water knowledge in practice: experiences and limitations
• Between policy and practice: gender mainstreaming in water and irrigation governance
• Water mobilities in arid and semi-arid regions
• Hydrosocial territories: integrating flows, power and people
• Water as boundaries: rethinking borders and shared systems
• Co-creation strategies for mountains and the cryosphere
• Decolonising water: from theory to practices for sustainability
• AI in science communication – what does it mean for hydrologists?
• Science communication and art – how to leverage creative approaches in hydrology?
• Water weaponization: power, control, and prevention
• Water-related SDG implementation: case studies, challenges and success stories
• Science-policy-practice nexus in hydrology and water management
• Co-creating water resilience for agriculture.

More information and detail of scientific themes click here.