2016 World Water Week programme
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Public private platforms for sustainable growth and development<br />
Introduction<br />
Convenor: 2030 <strong>Water</strong> Resources Group<br />
Room: FH Congress Hall C<br />
Room: FH 307<br />
2030 WRG will show how it has built trust and promoted innovative financial instruments to deliver sustainable water resources projects.<br />
Together with our partners, innovative financial mechanisms and prioritisation techniques will be presented, thereby initiating projects that<br />
create jobs, achieve the SDGs and address political, social and environmental challenges.<br />
11:00 Welcome<br />
Anders Berntell, Executive<br />
Director, 2030 WRG<br />
11:10 Charlotte Petri Gornitzka,<br />
Director-General, Sida<br />
11:15 <strong>Water</strong> mining and sustainable<br />
growth, Peru<br />
Mercedes Castro, AguaLimpia<br />
11:25 Agri-tech finance<br />
H. E. M.B. Patil, Minister of<br />
<strong>Water</strong> Resources, Karnataka,<br />
India<br />
11:35 Panel discussion<br />
Jesus Reyes Heroles/Franciso<br />
12:05 Q&A<br />
Magoya, CCA Mexico<br />
M.A. Jabbar, Managing Director,<br />
DBL Group<br />
Dominick Terberg, NMBTZ /<br />
Rabobank<br />
12:20 Wrap-up and closing<br />
12:30 Close of event<br />
Why waste water? Gearing up for <strong>World</strong> <strong>Water</strong> Day 2017<br />
Convenor: UN-<strong>Water</strong><br />
UN-<strong>Water</strong> presents <strong>World</strong> <strong>Water</strong> Day 2017 on <strong>Water</strong> and Wastewater, highlighting wastewater as a valuable resource in the circular<br />
economy, and its safe management as an efficient investment in the health of humans and ecosystems. Participants will be invited to give<br />
feedback and get involved in the campaign.<br />
11:00 Welcoming remarks and<br />
introduction to <strong>World</strong> <strong>Water</strong> Day<br />
Daniella Bostrom Couffe,<br />
UN-<strong>Water</strong><br />
11:05 Keynote address – Why waste<br />
water? A perspective from space<br />
Christer Fuglesang, Adjunct<br />
Professor in Space Physics at<br />
KTH Royal Institute of<br />
Technology and Astronaut at the<br />
European Space Agency<br />
Examples of the value<br />
of wastewater and associated<br />
opportunities and challenges:<br />
Wastewater to drinking water<br />
in Singapore/Wastewater to<br />
food in Jordan<br />
Thomas Rieger, social scientist<br />
12:15 Information on UN-<strong>Water</strong><br />
analytical brief on water<br />
quality assessment<br />
UNEP<br />
Friday<br />
Thursday Wednesday Tuesday Monday<br />
Sunday<br />
11:35 Interactive perspectives –<br />
Overcoming the ‘yuck-factor’<br />
Moderator: Stefan Uhlenbrook,<br />
Director, UN <strong>World</strong> <strong>Water</strong><br />
Assessment Programme at<br />
UNESCO<br />
12:25 Closing remarks<br />
UN-Habitat, WHO, UNU<br />
12:30 Close of event<br />
Photo: Nana Kofi Acquah<br />
General info<br />
<strong>programme</strong>.worldwaterweek.org 65
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