PRESS RELEASE: Announcement of the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit
Water Security: Leadership and Commitment
The 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit (1st APWS) will be held in Beppu, Oita prefecture, on December 3 and 4, 2007, with top-level decision-makers participation from the Asia-Pacific region.
"The fact is that, at present, in Asia and the Pacific, 700 million of our citizens do not have access to safe drinking water, the region suffers disproportionately from water-related disasters and degraded land-water ecosystems significantly threaten water productivity. We can turn the situation around if we can agree to make water a high priority in our development plans, if we can improve governance, if we mobilize and allocate more financial resources to water infrastructure and if we acknowledge that the access to safe drinking water is a basic human right of our people." – Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, Chair, Steering Committee of the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit.
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PRESS RELEASE: On the Way to the 1st Asia Pacific Water Summit
Remarks by Mrs. Margaret Catley-Carlson (Chair, Global Water Partnership & Steering Committee member, 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit) and Dr. Frank R. Rijsberman (Director, Water and Climate Adaptation Initiatives, Google.org)
Kyoto, Japan
8 October 2007
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Upload: 2nd Draft Priority Theme Recommendation
The secretariat is pleased to announce the upload of the 2nd Draft Recommendations of each Priority Theme.
APWF will combine 2nd Draft Recommendations of each Priority Theme and Key Result Area into a draft "Policy Brief 2007" to be reported by APWF at 1st Asia-Pacifc Water Summit.
APWF Working Group meeting on draft Policy Brief will be held in Kuala Lumpur on the occasion of the Southeast Asia Water Forum(Oct 21-25). APWF will finalize Policy Brief 2007 by November 16th
» Theme A : Water Financing
» Theme B : Water-related Disaster Management
» Theme C : Water for Development & Ecosystems
Notes of 2nd Steering Committee Meeting and Programme Meeting for 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit
Venue: ANA Intercontinental Hotel, Japan
The 2nd APWS SC meeting was held in Tokyo on 6 Aug 2007. The meeting was
chaired by former Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Yoshiro Mori who is the President of the Japan Water Forum as well as the President of the Asia Pacific Water Forum (APWF). Mr Mori chaired the morning segment of the meeting attended by 16 SC members, 13 special participants and 122 observers. Mr. Ravi Narayanan chaired the Programme Meeting in the afternoon. The secretariat of the meeting was the Japan Water Forum. Representatives from the diplomatic community in Japan, affiliated agencies, and the media were invited as observers. Government officials attended from 35 countries; Afghanistan, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Korea, Kyrgyz, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu and Uzbekistan.
» Notes of 2nd Steering Committee Meeting and Programme Meeting (PDF, 41KB)