Delft Water Week 2025 from March 16 to 22nd
Around the World Water Day of the United Nations on 22nd of March, we are organizing the Water Week 2025 together with Delft for Global Goals from March 16 to 22nd, with the Water Market on March 22nd. Several organizations are participating in this with presentations, workshops and demonstrations. This year too, the Water Market will be held in OPEN at the Vesteplein opposite Theater de Veste.
Lecture: Cultural Heritage and Climate Adaptation
How did historical waterworks help manage floods and droughts? Find out during Delft Water Week on March 19 at Rietveld Theater. Menne Kosian, a water heritage specialist, will give a lecture on the role of heritage in climate adaptation. Admission is free, but registration is required. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore historical solutions for modern challenges.
More information and registration
Programme of the Delft Water Week 2025
Whole week (Monday – Saturday)
- Art exhibit on jellyfish “Cinquecento Medusae”, Location OPEN
- Self-guided bike tour along 14 water filling stations in Delft
Sunday 16 March
- 14.00 – 15.30 – New Delftse Waterloop Guided walk
Monday 17 March
- 12.30 – 13.00 – Water stories by Hermine van Helden (In Dutch), Location: Delft City Hall (entrance area)
Tuesday 18 March
- 19.30 – 21.30 – Climate café: Greening your neighborhood. Location: Papaver
- 20.00 – 21.30 – Taalcafé (practice speaking Dutch) discussions about ‘water’, Location: OPEN
Wednesday 19 March
- 14:00-16:30 : WATER FESTIVAL at DOK Voorhof Library
- Book reading “Blub heeft buikpijn” by Cleanup All (in Dutch)
- Delft Clown, Mobile Clown Factory
- 015Duurzaam Water table
- 14.00 – 17.00 – School football tournament, with a Water quiz. Location: Full Speed
- 17.30 – 18.30 – Concert by Sukrit Sen, music about water in India. Location: IHE-Delft
- 20.00 – 22.00 – Lecture: Cultural heritage and climate adaptation (in Dutch), Menne Kosian
Friday 21 March
- 14.00 – 16.00 – Tour of the ‘Water Street’ and ‘Heat Square’, Locatie Green Village
Saturday 22 March
- 07.00 – 10.00 – Birding excursion with focus on water birds, Vogelwacht Delft
- 10.00 – 16.30 – DELFTSE WATER MARKET in OPEN. Full programme with more than 15 organisations
Sunday 23 March
- 14.00 – 15.30 – New Delftse Waterloop guided walk
Download the program (Dutch, PDF)
