The Ecumenical Water Network (EWN) emerged from the 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) , held in Porto Alegre in 2006. Since then the EWN secretariat has been located in the WCC. The EWN participated in the WCC 10th Assembly held in Busan,  Republic of Korea, 30 October - 8 November 2013, with its network members and participants to share its achievements and struggles in fulfilling the mandate given to it in the previous assembly in Brazil.