2016 World Water Week programme
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Wednesday | 31 August | 14:00-15:30<br />
Opportunities for mainstreaming resource recovery and reuse in<br />
developing countries<br />
Room: NL Music Hall/Musiksalen<br />
Convenors: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Centre for Science and the Environment, India, Columbia<br />
University, IWMI, <strong>Water</strong> Environment Federation, <strong>Water</strong> Environment Research Foundation, <strong>Water</strong> Global<br />
Practice of the <strong>World</strong> Bank Group and WRC<br />
This event will explore via a North – South dialogue the growing evidence-base on ‘what works’ in relation to resource recovery and reuse<br />
and how this can lead to resilient cities, integrated water and waste management, and the achievement of the related SDG targets in the<br />
global South.<br />
14:00 Welcome<br />
Prof Kala Vairavamoorthy, IWMI<br />
14:05 Business models for resource<br />
recovery and reuse in<br />
developing countries<br />
Pay Drechsel, IWMI<br />
14:20 Innovations in technologies<br />
for resource recovery and reuse<br />
in developing countries<br />
Jay Bhagwan, WRC<br />
Land and Ecosystems<br />
RRR Technologies: <strong>Water</strong><br />
Environment Research<br />
Foundation and Columbia<br />
University<br />
RRR Institutions and regulations:<br />
<strong>Water</strong> Research Commission<br />
RRR Business Models: IWMI<br />
RRR Stakeholders and capacity<br />
building: Centre for Science and<br />
Environment<br />
Panelists:<br />
Matt Ries, WEF<br />
Dr Diego Rodriguez, The <strong>World</strong><br />
Bank Group<br />
Doulaye Kone, Bill and Melinda<br />
Gates Foundation<br />
15:25 Summary and wrap-up<br />
Dhesigen Naidoo, Executive<br />
Director, WRC<br />
15:30 Close of event<br />
14:35 Gallery walk/Bus stops<br />
Facilitator: Michael Victor,<br />
Research Program for <strong>Water</strong><br />
15:00 Panel discussion<br />
Moderator: Prof Kala<br />
Vairavamoorthy, IWMI<br />
Source to Sea: Bridging marine and freshwater SDGs<br />
Convenors: Action Platform on Source to Sea Management, FAO, SIWI, Swedish Agency for Marine and <strong>Water</strong><br />
Management, UNDP, UNEP-GPA<br />
This event will discuss solutions to addressing links and making informed trade-off decisions in Source to Sea systems to enable sustainable<br />
growth and the realization of the development aspirations defined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a particular focus<br />
on freshwater and marine SDG targets.<br />
Room: NL 461<br />
14:00 Welcome<br />
Torkil Jønch Clausen, Chair<br />
of the Action Platform on Source<br />
to Sea Management<br />
14:10 Keynote: Achieving SDGs 6 & 14<br />
– Challenges and the need for<br />
source-to-sea approaches<br />
Andrew Hudson, UNDP<br />
14:25 Swedish source-to-sea<br />
implementation of the EU<br />
<strong>Water</strong> Framework and Marine<br />
Strategy Framework Directive<br />
Anna Jöborn, SwAM<br />
14:35 Lessons from applying ridgeto-reef<br />
approaches in Vu Gia<br />
– Thu Bon River Basin, Central<br />
of Viet Nam<br />
Bui Thi Thu Hien, IUCN<br />
14:45 Panel discussion and Q&A<br />
Panelists:<br />
Eduardo Mansour, Director, FAO<br />
Habib El Habr, UNEP GPA<br />
Jakob Granit, SwAM<br />
Ania Grobicki, Ramsar<br />
Convention<br />
15:20 Wrap-up<br />
Torkil Jønch Clausen<br />
15:30 Close of event<br />
Photo: iStock<br />
94 <strong>2016</strong> <strong>World</strong> <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Week</strong>: <strong>Water</strong> for sustainable growth
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