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ASEAN Nations Discuss Strategic Water Management Plan Vietnam, QUANG NINH — Representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), met last week in Vietnam‘s Quang Ninh province to evaluate and discuss cooperative water resources management initiatives, including the ASEAN Strategic Plan of Action on Water Resources Management. The meeting of the 12th for the ASEAN Working Group on Water Resources Management on July 25-27 focused on aspects of the strategic plan that involve water data management, risks and impacts associated with changing climate, river classification systems, and activities that increase awareness of water issues and knowledge of and participation in water management. Member states also discussed regional water events like Singapore International Water Week, the Clean Environment Summit Singapore 2012 and the Second-Asia Pacific Water Summit. The ASEAN Strategic Plan of Action on Water Resources Management was passed in 2005 to handle issues regarding supply and demand of freshwater, freshwater quality, sanitation access, extreme weather events and improving governance and capacity building. The meeting was co-chaired by ASEAN Chairman for Water Resources Management Chua Soon Guan and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Bui Cach Tuyen. Both the United States and China are dialogue partners to ASEAN, whose members include Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Burma, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, addressing an ASEAN ministerial conference in Cambodia, described six pillars of American policy in the region: cooperation, economic integration and trade, engagement in the Lower Mekong region, transnational threats, democratic development, and war legacies. Page 87
During this sub-regional meeting, the Lower Mekong ministers approved the creation of a new ―Agriculture and Food Security‖ pillar and the renaming of the ―Environment‖ pillar to ―Environment and Water.‖ The next LMI Regional Working Group was tasked with fleshing out the new agriculture/food security pillar; broadening the environment pillar to include water will allow the nations to better address sub-regional water-related issues like improving water quality, better flood and drought forecasting, and expanding access of drinking water and sanitation. At the Cambodia meeting, ASEAN failed for the first time in its 45-year history to issue at communique at an annual meeting, amid tensions due to separate territorial disputes two ASEAN members – the Philippines and Vietnam – have with China in the South China Sea. ―ASEAN Nations Discuss Strategic Water Management Plan ―,30/07/2012, online at: http://www.ooskanews.com/dailywater-briefing/asean-nations-discuss-strategic-water-management-plan_23633 BACK TO TOP Page 88
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