The World Lake Conference is a series of academic conferences held every 2 years. It was first initiated by International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC) in 1984. The following countries have hosted the World Lake Conference before: Japan, United States, Hungary, China, Italy, Argentina, Denmark, Kenya and India.

The 13th World Lake Conference will take place from the November 1 to November 5, 2009, in Wuhan (Hubei, China). This year, the conference is jointly organized by Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (CSES), Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES) and Wuhan Municipality. Minister Zhou Shengxian of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection is the president of the 13th World Lake Conference.

To learn more about this conference, please click: http://www.chinalakes.org/html/En/