 Short pitch to get you excited about the IHE Symposium in May on Capacity starting with Secretary General Guterres calling for a time for science and solidarity and the heart of science and solidarity of course we find water we know and the current crisis puts us on a track where we can't go back to normal which is a good thing now although we see the devastating impact of this crisis and we know that in the midst of this we need climate leadership to stipulate that this will be a balancing act we will know this understanding comes first and we have the science but we also need the empathy we need a proactive comprehensive approach where water is the leverage understand it, value it, manage it across the SDGs connect the dots and create space and place and solidarity in the words of Secretary General Guterres to find novel ways forward and then expand those novel ways replicate and scale them up across the world it's a necessity in the places where there is not enough where it's polluted or where there's often too much we must step our efforts now for that we need the capacity we need the capacity among our institutions, our individuals, our professionals in the water sector and beyond and we need to connect with the people on the ground and we'll talk in May about capacitating the world to lead on water, climate and development action