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?
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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.