Presentations from speakers

Monday, 3 October 2011

Introduction and overview. Water in the Green Economy in Practice: Towards Rio+20. Zafar Adeel, Chair of UN-Water [ - 247 KB]

Water and Cities: Targets and Green Growth Opportunities. Bert Diphoorn, Director of Human Settlements Financing Division adn Chief of the Water, Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch (UN-Habitat) [ - 1.15 MB]

Towards the Rio+20 Summit Kenza Robinson, Senior Sustainable Development Officer (UNDESA) [ - 286 KB]

Overview of Session 1: Economic incentives in water management to support change towards green growth. Gerard Bonnis, Principal Administrator, Environmental Performance and Information Division (OECD) [ - 1.3 MB]

Overview of Session 2: What reforms for green jobs? Carlos Carrión-Crespo, Senior Specialist in Public Services (ILO) [ - 285 KB] (in Spanish)

Overview of Session 3: Sustainable financing. Maria Angelica Sotomayor, Senior Economist, Urban, Water Supply and Sanitation Unit, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank [ - 153 KB]

Presentation of market place. Josefina Maestu, Coordinator, UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication [ - 109 KB]

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Recap Day 1. Josefina Maestu, Coordinator, UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication [ - 416 KB]

Overview of Session 4: Investments and fiscal measures for the protection and improvement of biodiversity. Elisa Tonda, Regional Coordinator for Efficient Use of Resources, UNEP, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) [ - 1.06 MB]

Overview of Session 5: The contribution of water technology to job creation and development of enterprises. Elisa Tonda, Regional Coordinator for Efficient Use of Resources, UNEP, Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) [ - 731 KB]

Overview of Session 6: Water and the green economy in the ESCWA region. Mohamed Al-Hamdi, First Economic Affairs Officer in the Water Resources Section of the Sustainable Development and Productivity Division, ESCWA [ - 1.3 MB]

Cases presented in the Market place

International Hydropower Association (IHA) Hydropower for the Green Economy: a new approach to capacity building and sustainable resource development. Kristin Schumann, Water Specialist, International Hydropower Association (IHA) [ - 972 KB]

Korea The four major rivers restoration project, Korea. Yoon-Jung Cha, Office of National River Restoration, Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs [ - 1.98 MB]

Namibia Industrial wastewater reclamation technology for irrigation. Karl Ulrich-Rudolph, Coordinator of the UNW-DPC Working Group on CD in Water Efficiency [ - 1.1 MB]

Egypt. Web-based system for water and environmental studies. Dr. Hani Sewilam, Programme Officer, UNW-DPC

Arabian Gulf Capacity development and adaptation of technological improvements in the Arab Region: The role of ACWUA in promoting the exchange of experiences. Khaldounn Khashman, Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) [ - 1.7 MB]

Yemen Reform of the urban water supply and sanitation sector in Yemen. Mohamed Al-Hamdi, First Economic Affairs Officer in the Water Resources Section of the Sustainable Development and Productivity Division, ESCWA [ - 736 KB]

Indonesia Rewards for watersheds services in Sumberjaya, Indonesia. Delia Catacutan, Social Scientist, World Agroforestry Centre [ - 2.8 MB]

Burkina Faso Improvement of water supply through a GIS-based monitoring and control system for water loss reduction. Dieudonné Sawadogo, Secretary General of ONEA [ - 2.4 MB]

Guatemala Design and approval of the Multi-annual Sectoral Plan for Water and the Environment of the Republic of Guatemala. Elisa Colom Caballeros de Moran, Specific Cabinet for Water, Government of Guatemala

Costa Rica Forest management and payment for ecosystem services. Carlos Herrera, Forest Engineer [ - 853 KB] (in Spanish)

Mexico Water and green jobs and the control of water pollution in Mexico. Alejandro Federico Alva Martínez, Biologist [ - 716 KB] (in Spanish)

Water Cluster Zaragoza innovates in water and energy, ZINNAE: an urban cluster for the efficient. Marisa Fernández, Coordinator of the Water Cluster in Zaragoza

Colombia Prices that reflect the costs and benefits to the poor in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia. Diego Ernesto Fernández Giraldo, Economist, University of Valle, Colombia

Nicaragua Creation and implementation of the Participatory Water Management Fund for Ocotal, Nicaragua. Radoslav Dimitrov Barzev, Executive President, Barzev Consulting S.A. [ - 3.07 MB] (in Spanish)

Mexico The institutional paradox of water investment in Mexico City María de Jesús Márquez Dorantes, Red de Cuerpos de Agua del Distrito Federal [ - 944 KB]

Colombia Public management of water in Colombia. Guillermo Rudas Lleras, Professor at the Externado University of Colombia [ - 1.35 MB]

Colombia Application of a 1% fee to project investments to restore, preserve and monitor the watershed that feeds the project water source. María Pilar Pachón, Director of Law Department, University Externado of Colombia

Panama Employment-Intensive Investment Programme. Vicenta Trotman Vargas, Secretary at the Management Board of the Rural Aqueduct of Kusapín [ - 842 KB] (in Spanish)

Philippines Maynilad Water District. Roel S. Espiritu, Head of Labour Relations of Maynilad Water Services Inc. [ - 366 KB]

Spain Water planning towards a green economy in the Ebro River Basin. Rogelio Galván, Ebro River Basin Authority [ - 1.67 MB]

Lao PDR Water planning in Lao PDR Phousavanh Fongkhamdeng, Assistant Director General, Department of Water Resources, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment [ - 1.03 MB]

Ecuador The Fund for the Protection of Water (FONAG). Pablo Lloret, Fondo para la Protección del Agua (FONAG) [ - 1.36 MB] (in Spanish)

South Africa Subsidies for water infrastructure as an engine of growth in South Africa. Thinus Basson, Senior Water Resources Engineer

Australia Trading and step by step legal reform on water use rights in the Murray-Darling Basin. James Horne, Member of the Australian Water Information Advisory Committee [ - 1.02 MB]

Israel Water pricing and command and control for water demand management in cities and agriculture in Israel. Sinaia Netanyahu, Ministry of Environment Protection [ - 883 KB]

The Nature Conservancy Public-Private Partnerships for Watershed Protection. Karin Krchnak, Director of the International Water Policy, the Nature Conservancy [ - 4.3 MB]

India Social contract formulas in rural areas: the India Naandi Foundation water treatment plans. Gayitri Handanahal Venugopal, Business Development Manager, Naandi Community Water Services [ - 1.5 MB]

Kenya Payment for Environmental Services pilot project in Lake Naivasha basin. Batula Awale, Freshwater Manager, WWF Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Programme Officer (ESARPO) [ - 2.6 MB]

Barbados The scope of greening Barbados' economy. Adrian Cashman, Senior Lecturer in Water Resources Management, Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), University of the West Indies, Barbados [ - 249 KB]

China Green economic practices of the Three Gorges Project. Yang Hongbin [ - 2.1 MB]

India The role of water technology in development: a case study in Gujarat. Rajiv Kumar Gupta, IAS, Principal Secretary, Climate Change Department, Government of Gujarat [ - 4.6 MB]

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Recap Day 2. Josefina Maestu, Coordinator, UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication [ - 128 KB]

Overview of Session 7: Water in the green economy in the LAC region. Caridad Canales Dávila, Division of Natural Resources and Infrastructure of ECLAC [ - 463 KB]

Overview of Session 8: Water planning to support the transition towards green growth. [ - 93 KB]