From Sunday to Thursday of this week, thousands of people convened in Stockholm, Sweden for the annual World Water Week—a week-long conference designed to foster new thinking and develop solutions to the most pressing water-related challenges of today.

Experts, practitioners, decision-makers, business innovators and young professionals from a range of sectors and countries came to Stockholm to network, exchange ideas and tackle the world’s water and sanitation problems. Last year, over 3000 individuals and 270 convening organizations from 143 countries participated in the events, and even more were expected this year.

The Global Poverty Project was lucky enough to play a role in this historic week. The Global Citizen Festival is just one month away and the Global Goals will be announced the day before. World Water Week gives us a chance to make Goal 6—clean water and sanitation—a success.

During last week’s Day of Action, global citizens called on donor governments to increase commitments to water and sanitation programs and to prioritize behaviour change in communities. We sorted through almost 1,000 messages to find the most heartfelt and compelling calls to action (which wasn’t easy—you guys are incredible!).

We then put these messages together in a video to show to donor governments at a water and sanitation financing meeting, making the case that global citizens are serious about increasing access to clean water and sanitation and investing in behaviour change. Take a look at the video above to see what donor government leaders saw this week in Stockholm.

Thanks to our campaigning efforts, and the voices of global citizens, it looks as though at least one donor government will attend the Global Citizen Festival this year and announce new support for water and sanitation.

Pretty amazing, right? But we can’t stop there. TAKE ACTION NOW to ensure that water and sanitation is made a priority on the global agenda by tweeting at the President of Indonesia.