Download - Lessons learnt and roadmap to World Water Day by Zafar Adeel, Director United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)

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


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


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)


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 !!

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