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TOWARDS A WATER SECURE WORLDDr Mohamed AIT KADI
GWP/Technical
Committee
ASIA WATER WEEK 2013
11‐15 March 2013
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Water Security = A Global Concern
The challenge of securing safe and plentiful water for
all of us is one of the most daunting challenges faced
y t e wor to ay… Our exper ences te us t at
environmental stress
due
to
lack of
water
may lead to
conflict and would be greater in poor countries
UN secretary‐General Ban Ki‐moon
WEF, 24 Jannuary 2008
Humanity is facing « water bankrupcy » as a result of a
crisis even greater than the financial meldown now
destabilizing the global
economy …
it is already
beginning to take effect, and there will be no way of
bailing the earth out of water scarcity …
G. Lean, The Independent, 15 March 2009
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Governance
Ga s
Water Security and
Interconnected Risks
GeopoliticalBiodiversity
LossRisks
Globalization
Water
Security
Economic
Risks
Env.
Risks
Water
Scarcity
Food Price
Volatility
Societal
Extreme
Weather
F/D/DES
Oil Price
Volatilityrisks
Migration
Chronic
disease
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New Enabling Environment & Instruments
• Policy instruments that promote complementarities (economic, social,
env ; everage c ange
• Fiscal instruments: measures
that
give
a price
to
environmental
goods
• Stren thened institutional arran ements that function within increasin
complexity, cutting across sectoral silos and sovereign boundaries.
•
A new
generation
of
financial
instruments
that
share
risk
between
• Skills development: a new and evolving set of skills to support water
management reforms
• Information and monitoring: set targets, define trajectories and gather the
right information to monitor progress (eg . Water security indicators)
• Innovation lannin : increasin water roductivit …
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It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the
one mos
respons ve
o
c ange.
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Comment nourrir l’humanité?
Thank you!
This is a
unique
time
in
history – decisions made
now will disproportionately influence
the
future !!!