Presentation Beom-Sik Yoo, WWF7 secretariat, 17th January UN Water Zaragoza Conference 2015

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2015 UN Water International Zaragoza Conference

17 January 2015

The 7th World Water Forum Secretariat

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The 7th World Water Forum

• World Water Forum held since 1997

• a platform where the water community and decision-makers from around the world come together to find solutions to global water is-sues

• 7th edition will be held in Daegu/Gyeonguk, Rep. of Korea 12-17 April 2015

• expecting some 35,000 participants from the global water com-munity


3 Key Objectives

• Moving from Solutions to Implementation

• Bridging the Platform of Science & Technology to Water Issues

• Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (S-

DGs)

“TIME FOR SOLUTIONS”

“IMPLEMENTATION”


THEMATICProcess

POLITICALProcess

REGIONALProcess

SCIENCE & TECHProcess

CITIZEN’SFORUM

Processes


Implementation

Thematic Process

RegionalProcess

Science & Technology

Process

Action Goals Action Tools1. Water Security for

all2. Water for Devel-

opment and Pros-perity

3. Water for Sustain-ability

4. Constructing Fea-sible Implementa-tion Mechanisms

1.1 Safe Water1.2 Sanitation1.3 Adapting to Change1.4 Infrastructure

2.1 Food2.2 Energy2.3 Cities

3.1 Green Growth3.2 Ecosystem3.3 Water Quality3.4 SMART

4.1 Finance4.2 Governance4.3 Conflict4.4 Culture/Justice4.5 Education

Regions Cross - Regions

Africa Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Arab MediterraneanEconomically

Water Insecure(EWI)

Main Focus1 Main Focus2 Main Focus3 Main Focus4 Main Focus5

Efficient water management

Resource re-covery from wa-ter and waste-water systems

Water and Natu-ral disasters

Smart technol-ogy for Water

Understanding and managing ecosystem ser-vices for water

Themes


Themes

Climate Change

Food Energy Water NexusSDGs

Governance

Technological Solution

FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE

Implementation

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

monitoring IWRM

indicators

smart managementculturehuman rights

disaster response

risk management


Key Outcomes

• Ministerial Declaration

• Draft under review• Prepcom II to be held in Paris 24-25 February 2015

• Implementation Roadmap & Action Monitoring System

• Identifying challenges & champions for implementation and har-nessing commitment & actions


DaeguDynamic!

GyeongjuA UNESCO World Heritage Site

Hope to see you there!


Thank you!

Water for Our Future

Presentation Beom-Sik Yoo, WWF7 secretariat, 17th January UN Water Zaragoza Conference 2015

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