Read and comment on the 2nd draft of the recommendation
Secretariat is pleased to present the draft for Theme A as of 20 Sep. This recommendation is in process of being formed. We welcome comments to refine the draft.
Water Champion Wasan Jompakdee: Sharing Water
Dr. Wasan Jompakdee, Vice Dean of Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Engineering believes that IWRM is about the overall management of rivers, lakes, groundwater, and river basins.
Read and comment on the first draft of the recommendation
Secretariat is pleased to present the draft for Theme A as of 30 Aug. This recommendation is in process of being formed. We welcome comments to refine the draft.
Water Champion Apichart Anukularmphai: NARBO - Working to Make IWRM a Reality
Dr. Apichart Anukularmphai organized the multi-stakeholder dialogues and workshops that brought IWRM-related issues and recommendations to the Government's attention. He also initiated the changes in Thailand's river basin committees (RBCs) to enable them to adapt to IWRM practices, and built their capacity for IWRM implementation. For Dr. Anukularmphai, IWRM is a process. There are no one-size-fits-all blueprints and short cuts to implementing it.
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/anukularmphai.asp
Water Champion Nguyen Thai Lai: Establishing Water Rights in Viet Nam
Two of the critical water issues Viet Nam currently faces are ensuring sustainable development of water resources, and conveying legal access rights to the people. Under Dr. Nguyen Thai Lai's leadership and in consultation with key stakeholders, the Department of Water Resources Management has recently designed a water licensing approach that aims to resolve both.
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/lai.asp
Water Champion Dolora Nepomuceno: Managing Water Conflicts in a River Basin
The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) may be the Philippines' only functioning chartered basin organization but it has already made considerable contributions to improving water rights in the country. As Assistant General Manager of LLDA, Ms. Nepomuceno introduces innovative approaches and market-based instruments for managing water resources, addressing conflicts, and conveying water rights.
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/nepomuceno.asp
Water Champion Shaoxia Cheng: Saving Wetlands for the Future
According to Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project Director Shaoxia Cheng, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) gives high priority to wetland biodiversity conservation, watershed protection and sustainable management of natural resources.
Water Champion Chandrashekar Hariharan: Creating a Lifestyle Built on Integrated Water Management Practices
People's commitment is a big concern in providing safe and accessible water supply and sanitation (WSS) in India. For Biodiversity Conservation (India) Limited (BCIL) Alternate Technology Foundation Head Chandrashekar Harihara, people need to understand the value of water, importance of hygiene, steps for installing simple water treatment systems that they can maintain, and the strength of a community. Can his message of localized or federalized solutions help save the drawing of freshwater?
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/harihan.asp
Water Champion Antonio de Vera: Building Viable Water Utilities for the Country
For a regulator to do his job well, Subic Bay Water Regulatory Board (SBWRB) Chair Antonio de Vera advises regulators to do what they think is right. Balancing conflicting interests within a political climate is not easy but must be made. It is also important to keep abreast of new developments in the sector since it is hard to regulate someone who is more knowledgeable than the regulator.
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/devera.asp
Water Champion Ramaswamy R. Iyer: Caution and Care in Building Dams
For Dams expert Ramaswamy Iyer, big dams are major interventions in nature and should therefore be projects of the last resort. Proper caution and care should be applied in building dams. The approach is to apply the criteria of `least environmental impact' and `minimum displacement,’ inform and involve the people likely to be affected, and put the project through the most stringent scrutiny.
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/iyer.asp
Water Champion Water Champion Hamidur Khan : Coping with the Worst of Floods
Flooding in Bangladesh is the result of a complex series of factors—from huge inflow of water from upstream catchment areas coinciding with heavy monsoon rainfall to congested drainage channels, or from major rivers converging inside Bangladesh to tides and storm surges in coastal areas.
Water Champion Salma Sadikha: When Water Connection Barriers Disappear
Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) Social Development Specialist Salma Sadikha believes that the pro-poor initiative of the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has opened the eyes of the utility to the fact that the urban poor population can be connected to the system, can contribute to capital costs through connection fees, and can help minimize losses—all that's needed is to make water affordable to them.
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/sadikha.asp
Water Champion Wouter Lincklaen Arriens: Building Bridges over Troubled Water
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) urged countries to use the next 15 years to cut by half the number of people without clean water and basic sanitation services. Six years down the line, some countries just aren't getting there. And worse, water problems of all kinds are escalating—from shortages to pollution to wetlands degradation and more.
Water Champion Ramon B. Alikpala: Striving for a Stronger and More Cohesive Water Sector
The Philippines' water sector apex body, the National Water Resources Board (NWRB), is among the more advanced in Asia. But NWRB Executive Director Ramon Alikpala is first to admit that the going will get tougher as NWRB strives to implement controversial reforms to improve water management in the country. Will NWRB be up to the task?
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/alikpala.asp
Water Champion Irfan Shahzad: Using the Pen to Right Water Concerns
Pakistani journalist, essayist, researcher and editor Irfan Shahzad is breaking the media silence over water issues and bringing headlines that reach beyond the current controversy to cover the back-seat issues deeply affecting the readers
Water Champion Erna Witoelar: Making ADB's Water Policy Work Better
The independent panel commissioned by ADB to review the implementation of its Water for All policy, chaired by Ms. Erna Witoelar encouraged ADB to develop innovative ways to increase affordability, efficiency and cost effectiveness in providing water and sanitation to the poor.
Water Champion Sukontha Aekaraj: Resolving Conflicts Through Dialog
It is important to find a champion —whether an individual or agency—who will catalyze actions for the basin. In the case of Bang Pakong, it was BPRBC Chair Chamroon from the private sector who galvanized the Committee into action
Water Champion Khondaker Azharul Haq: Overcoming the Water Supply and Sanitation Constraints of Bangladesh
The biggest water supply problem in Bangladesh is arsenic contamination of the ground water. In sanitation, high capital cost is the principal constraint.
Water Champion Narendra K.C. : No community too remote for Nepal's water-minded SAPPROS
SAPPROS NEPAL Director Narendra Bahadur Khatri Chhetri believes that irrigation is the best weapon for overcoming Nepal's rural poverty but the poor must have equal, if not greater, access to irrigated water. Could he be right?
To read the full text please visit http://adb.org/Water/Champions/narendra.asp
Water Champion Suo Lisheng: Overcoming Water Challenges in the People’s Republic of China
China has quite a variety of water problems, but the four most serious ones are floods, droughts, pollution and erosion
Water Champion Antonino T. Aquino: Living Up to the Promise of Private Sector Involvement in the Water Sector
Manila Water Company, Inc. (MWCI) is now regarded as one of the successful public-private partnerships in the world.
Water Champion Joe Madiath: Championing 100% Sanitation Coverage in Rural Communities in India
Gram Vikas Executive Director Joe Madiath's current approach to convergent community action with water and sanitation as the entry point is evolving into a movement that influences local democratic self-governance and poor people's control over development processes.
Water Champion Mohamed Rasheed: Engaging the Private Sector to Invest in Water
In the mid 90s, Male' was experiencing intense water shortages. Distribution of available water was ineffective, while wastewater handling systems faced challenges such as corrosion, blockage, flooding, leakage, and poor maintenance.
Water Champion Ek Sonn Chan: Pulling the Plug on Nonrevenue Water
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) experience has been heralded as exemplary in Asia and the Pacific for dramatically overhauling Phnom Penh's water supply system and demonstrating leadership and innovation in project financing and governance.
Water Champion Maria Sevilla: Big Results from Small Solution
Liloan, a small municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines relies on its tourism industry for economic growth. When water pollution due to poor sanitation threatened said industry, Mayor Maria Sevilla sought the assistance of the Asian Development Bank and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to help the town eradicate the problem.
WATER FOR MEGACITY: SCARCITY AMONGST PLENTY
Case Study from Kolkata Metropolitan Area
Asia is becoming a continent of megacities. Repid growth of such cities is putting pressure on water and sanitation. World Health Organisation in 1966 prepared the first Asian master plan for watersupply, sewerage and drainage with a phased programme. The metropolitan area was divided into five service destricts and suggested construction of treatment plants, primary and secondary grids, booster station etc. Kolkata Metropoliton Development Authority took up implementation. Measures were taken to prevent pollution of the river. Water supply was through ground and surface water and different municipalities lacked coordination.
RURAL WATER MANAGEMENT WITH MULTIPLE BENEFITS
A Grassroot Sustainable Project in the Deltic Lowland Near the Bay of Bengal
The Rangabelia project in the Sundarbans delta adjoining the Bay of Bengal is one of the best practices of rural water management and is a multiporpose project to alleviate poverty. The Tagore Society for Rural Development, a grass root NGO with technical help from Interdesign (Principal Architect being Secretary General, Centre for Built Environment) has developed this is a village - Rangabelia, which is in low land with a number of ponds. The project has proper and systemetic wastewater reuse/treatment, hygienic waste disposal system including composting and digester technology, solar hot water and electricity generation through photovoltaic cells, biomass cultivation with fuel generation and pyrolysis (main generator), ovrall water management with rainwater collection ponds and channels using biofilters, low cost and innovative sanitation and building technology to provide facilities economically. Besides availability of better water and sanitation, the project is productive with increased crop yield – agriculture and fishery. It supports a plethora of flora and fauna and maintain biodiversity.
RAINWATER HARVESTING IN A PERIURBAN AREA, KOLKATA
A Japan Water Forum Funded Project - ‘Promising Rain’
The rapid growth of cities has caused unplanned sprawl including Kolkata in India. The fringe or periurban areas of such metropolis have water scarcity. There is falling ground water tables and even such water is found to be contaminated. Women and children are to queue up at municipal taps which are few, far between and crowded. This takes away productive time. Rainwater harvesting is an ancient system in Asia. Its revival has great potentiality. With the help of a small grant from Japan Water Forum, Centre for Built Environment, initiated the project in Anandapalli, in northeast Kolkata.
Drafting Schedule of Recommendation
(Recommendation must be within 5pages. Annex could be attached if it is more than 5pages.)
- Draft outline of recommendation (content and brief description of what should be contained in each item) is to be uploaded on the APWF website by May 7th
- Comments on draft outline will be collected by Water Weblog until June 30th
- Preliminary draft Recommendation is to be presented at the 2nd GC meeting (July 12-13th)
- The first draft Recommendation is to be distributed at 2nd SC (August 6th) and uploaded on the website (also e-mailed to GC member in charge of each theme)
- Comments on the first draft Recommendation will be collected by Water Weblog until September 30th
- The 2nd draft Recommendation is to be uploaded on the APWF website by October 12th (also e-mailed to GC member in charge of each theme)
- APWF will combined all Recommendations into a draft “Policy Brief”
- Working Group meeting on draft Policy Brief will be held in Kuala Lumpur on the occasion of the South-east Asia Water Forum(October 21-25)
- APWF will finalize Policy Brief by November 16th
*To ensure participation of water stakeholder in drafting process each deadline must be kept strictly.
Mission UCHIMIZU
Mission Uchimizu, which started Y2003 became the national movement in Japan with the participation of 7.7 million citizens. Uchimizu, spraying water to purify the "place" prior to welcoming the guest, is the traditional Japanese culture back to the Edo period. It has also the effect of cooling down summer heat and laying the dusts on the street.