Lessons learnt and roadmap to World Water Day by Zafar Adeel, Director United Nations University...
-
Upload
united-nations-office-to-support-the-international-decade-for-action-water-for-life-2005-2015 -
Category
News & Politics
-
view
222 -
download
0
description
Transcript of Lessons learnt and roadmap to World Water Day by Zafar Adeel, Director United Nations University...
Conclusions for WWD 2014Zafar AdeelUnited Nations UniversityInstitute for Water, Environment and Health
Take-away Points – 1
1. Success stories for public-private partnerships • OECD: Success in Ebro basin; Madrid; Stockholm; Zaragoza; • Developing countries: Cinta Mekar, Mweteni village• Private Sector: Carlsberg, BP, Veolia• International: EIP
Take-away Points – 2
2. Application of technology, research, innovation
• Improving consumer behavior: energy-efficient appliances (Singapore)
• Technologies: Solar heating (Israel); recycling water and heat in energy generation (US, Brazil, Israel); Linked provisioning of energy and water (Casablanca)
• Analysis: Modeling complexity; best cooling technologies
Take-away Points – 3
3. Achieving sustainability for water-energy nexus• Need to overcome very significant fragmentation within sectors• Making the business case for water-energy nexus – job creation• Growth of energy sector/new options constrained by water?• Reviewing untapped hydropower potential• Scaling up pilot examples of • Industry partnerships as a means to achieve sustainability
(Australia)
Take-away Points – 4
4. Creating enabling environment, incentives, funding mechanisms• Water scarcity as the incentive (….And energy scarcity??)• Linked policies (Israel, Singapore, Spain)• Gaps: linked incentives; integrated decision support systems• Creating partnerships without public funding – corporate
capital• Building capacity !!
www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/UNWorldWaterDay@UNW_WWD
Thank You