This is the Abstract Volume of the 2010 World Water Week workshops. The topics of this year’s interesting workshops are: Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control, Short-cutting Historical Pollution Trends, Water Quality for Human Health, Improved Water Use Efficiency through Recycling and Reuse, Management of Groundwater Abstraction and Pollution, Minimising Land Use Based Water Pollution, Resilience, Uncertainty and Tipping Points, and Origins, Pathways and Accumulation of Pollutants An Urban Perspective.