Full_Week_2017 Programme

Monday | 28 August | 14:00-15:30
Overcoming water scarcity and drought: Reduce, reuse and
replenish
Room: FH
Congress Hall A
Convenors: ARCOWA, IWA and SIWI
The HLPW scarcity will review the technological, operational and regulatory advances made recently to turn water
scarcity into a new opportunity for sustainable water management. Examples shown include, lower costs of water reuse
and desalination, local water markets – cap and trade, and groundwater storage management.
Event
Moderators: Dr Ger Bergkamp,
President & CEO, ARCOWA,
Switzerland
Tom Williams, Interim-Executive
Director, IWA
14.00 Opening
H.E. Karolina Skog, Minister for
the Environment (Sweden)
Dr Zaini bin Ujang, Secretary-
General, Ministry of Energy,
Green Technology and Water,
(Malaysia)
14.15 Leading edge solutions: reduce,
re-use, replenish
Dr Nick Schofield, CEO, AWP
Prof Glenn Daigger, University of
Michigan
Dr Wim van Viersen, CEO,
Water Cycle Research Institute
Jaime Baptista, Project leader,
Lisbon International Centre on
Water
14.50 Critical questions and input
from the audience
15.00 Emerging initiatives on water
scarcity
Jennifer Sara, Director, The
World Bank Group
Louise Whiting, FAO
Sergio Campos, IADB
15.15 Q&A
15.25 Final remarks
Torgny Holmgren, Executive
Director, SIWI
15:30 Close of session
Protection of the sacred: Wastewater management and indigenous
realities
Convenors: BORDA, HRW, ILO, Te Kopu – Pacific Indigenous & Local Knowledge Centre of Distinction
and WGF
Room: NL
Music Hall
#pollutingthesacred
What are the implications of water and wastewater management on indigenous cultures and survival? Many indigenous
peoples hold a holistic worldview on water but face injustices regarding water pollution, especially women. How to ensure
indigenous peoples participate in decision-making, and designing of solutions? Making space for indigenous voices on
water/wastewater.
Event
Moderation: Maren Heuvels, BORDA
14:00 Protection of the Sacred –
Indigenous views on (waste)
water
Kathleen Padulo, Chiefs of
Ontario, Canada and
Tui Shortland, Te Kopu – Pacific
Indigenous & Local Knowledge
Centre of Distinction, New
Zealand
14:15 Research – What are the key
findings?
Juana Vera Delgado, ILO and
Gender and Water Alliance
Alejandro Jimenez, SIWI
Tui Shortland, Te Kopu
Kathleen Padulo, Chiefs of
Ontario
Amanda Klasing, HRW
15:45 “My wish for the water sector
to do (differently) when
working with our communities”
Tui Shortland, Te Kopu and
Kathleen Padulo, Chiefs of
Ontario
15.00 Q&A “What I always wanted
to ask about working in
Indigenous communities”
15:25 Wrap up
15:30 Close of session
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