Aquaterra is an international conference and exhibition on development in coastal and delta regions, which focuses on managing risks and creating opportunities to meet the challenges of deltaic and coastal development at all levels, from economic and financial to safety and planning issues.

Aquaterra 2007 took place from 7-9 February 2007, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Prince of Orange, who was recently appointed chairman of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, opened the meeting. The forum presentations explored a variety of positive ways of tackling the effects of climate change and concluded, inter alia, that: people are not going to move from threatened areas and ongoing development is important for a healthy economy; the costs of land reclamation are more than compensated for by the results; and solutions permitted by advances in technology such as the creation of islands in front of the coast and the development of rivers and lakes are economically viable and can be carried out in an ecologically responsible way (ENB Sources).
Link to further information
Aquaterra’s webpage