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Sunday | 27 August | 11:00-12:30<br />
Opportunities and limits to water pollution regulations<br />
Room:<br />
FH 300<br />
Convenors: IIASA, OECD,SIWI and UN Environment<br />
Where water quality is impacted by point sources of pollution, the response is to control and manage through legislation.<br />
However, in situations with diffuse source pollution, this mechanism is less effective and differing approaches are<br />
required.<br />
Seminar<br />
Opportunities and limits to<br />
command and control approaches<br />
to water pollution management.<br />
11:00 Introduction<br />
Simon Langan, IIASA<br />
11:05 Not so much the water as<br />
what’s in it<br />
Simon Langan, IIASA<br />
11:25 Wastewater management<br />
regulations: Challenges and<br />
opportunities for Africa<br />
Clever Mafuta, GRID-Arendal<br />
11:35 Agrochemical use in Argentine<br />
farming and its impact on water<br />
– legal implications<br />
Clara Minaverry, CONICET<br />
11:50 Integrated management<br />
of industrial effluents in<br />
Montevideo – Uruguay<br />
Alicia Stella Raffaele Vázquez,<br />
Government of Montevideo<br />
11:55 Panel Q&A<br />
12:25 Conclusion<br />
Simon Langan, IIASA<br />
11:15 An operator’s views on<br />
wastewater regulations around<br />
the world<br />
Nicholas Le Poder, Veolia<br />
11:45 Group participation survey<br />
Danka Thalmeinerova, GWP,<br />
and Madison Condon, Earth<br />
Institute - Columbia University<br />
12:30 Close of session<br />
Sustainable withdrawals: How do you know?<br />
Room: NL<br />
Music Hall<br />
Convenors: IADB and RTI<br />
Water management agencies in Latin America and Africa will describe the practical and methodological difficulties they<br />
are addressing to develop accurate information on water availability and to determine the quantity, location and timing<br />
of sustainable withdrawals.<br />
Event<br />
11:00 Purpose of session<br />
Gene Brantly, Director, RTI<br />
International<br />
11:05 Towards a new paradigm for<br />
sustainable water resources<br />
management<br />
Sergio Campos, Chief, IADB and<br />
Bob Dykes, Senior Director, RTI<br />
International<br />
11:15 CeSH and Hydro-BID: IDB<br />
support for sustainable WRM in<br />
Latin America<br />
Mauro Nalesso, Lead Specialist,<br />
IADB<br />
11:25 Toward sustainable<br />
withdrawals: Progress in<br />
Ecuador<br />
Carlos Arias, Technical<br />
Undersecretary of Water<br />
Resources, Water Secretariat,<br />
Ecuador<br />
11:35 Toward sustainable<br />
withdrawals: Progress in<br />
Argentina<br />
Tbd<br />
11:45 Toward sustainable<br />
withdrawals: Progress in Kenya<br />
Eng Mohammed Shurie, Chief<br />
Executive Officer, Water Resources<br />
Management Authority (Kenya)<br />
and Eng Boniface Mwaniki,<br />
Water Resources Management<br />
Authority (Kenya)<br />
11:55 Toward sustainable<br />
withdrawals: Progress in the<br />
Nile Basin<br />
Tbd<br />
12:05 Discussion<br />
Panel and Attendees<br />
12:30 Close of session<br />
8 World Water <strong>Week</strong> <strong>2017</strong> Water and waste: Reduce and reuse programme.worldwaterweek.org
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