Highlights of World Water Week Day Two
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Round-up of the News, Highlights and Announcements from the Second Day of the Annual Water Conference in Stockholm
The highlight of World Water Week day two was theAfrica Focus sessions. Discussion points included the state and scale of hydropower,transboundary water managementand the declining reliance on donor-funded infrastructure projects on the continent. We caught up with some of the speakers to discuss water challenges in more depth. Keep reading to see what they had to say.
Highlights
- ThePepsiCo Foundationand theInter-American Development Bankunveiled a new data management and water modeling tool called Hydro-BID. They say the tool "has the potential to forecast water availability and supply across Latin America and the Caribbean under virtually any climate, population and land use scenario".
- African Water Facilityannounced a new initiative to support African water projects that aim to build resilience to climate change. It will commit a total of €16m in funding grants.
- Several east Asian countries have achieved almost universal sanitation coverage in a short space of time.A report from WaterAid(pdf) published and presented today explores how we can learn from their success.
- A new study on sanitation projects in Madagascar was launched byCLTS Foundation. Over the last three and a half years the country has improved sanitation in almost 10,000 villages.
Word of the day
Wash: You will hear this acronym banded around a lot at World Water Week. In the words of American climate change scientist Peter Gleick describes it as "‘water, sanitation, and hygiene' and the idea that meeting basic human water needs must include all three to be effective".
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