IANAS Water Programme: Enhancing Water Management and Capacity Building

1. Water NetworkIANAS Dr. José Galizia Tundisi Dra Blanca E Jiménez Cisneros

2. Background • 14 IANAS Academies have nominated water specialists to act as national nodes to the IANAS Water Network. • 4 Meetings • 1st Bogota/March 2005 • 2nd in Guarulhos/July 2006; • 3th in Santo Domingo 2008 • 4th In Nicaragua, 2009 • Two main types of activities a) Meetings : • A joint IAP/IANAS Regional Workshop for the Americas has been organized in 2006 • 1st IAP/IANAS Capacity Building Training Course for the Americas in August 2008 b) CREATE a consolidated technical group that can assist their national governments and society in the effort to enhance local water management capacities

3. IANAS Water Programme • To establish National Water Committees that will help Academies provide advice to governments and society, thus enhancing their social relevance; • To prepare white papers providing a strategic view on national water resources; • To implement capacity building activities; • To discuss new perspectives and innovative solutions for water management; • To set the stage for the future publicizing and implementation of the recommendations of the IAC Study Panel on Water.

4. 3th Water programme Focal Points meetingSanto Domingo, 29 February to 01 March 2008 • Argentina, Raul Lopardo • Bolivia, Fernando Urquidi • Venezuela, Ernesto Gonzalez • Brazil, Jose GaliziaTundisi • Canada, Keith Hipel • Cuba, Mercedes Arellano • Guatemala, Manuel Basterrechea • Haiti, Wilson Celestin • Nicaragua, Katherine Vammen • Peru Adolfo Toledo and Axel Dourojeani • Dominican R., Rafael Osiris de Leon • Trinidad & Tobago, Vincent Cooper • United States, Henry Vaux

5. 3th MeetingRESULTS • Papers presented were useful to • Discuss in general the water problem • To highlight main issues in each countries • To detect main global and local Solutions • But • Were highly heterogenic • The problem on both lack of information and when available lack of reliability was detected • A content was produced for all the water country profiles • Time was allocated to LOOK FOR AND VALIDATE the information in order produce homogen reports

6. IANAS Water Programme • To establish National Water Committees that will help Academies provide advice to governments and society, thus enhancing their social relevance; • To assist to the policy makers by providing analyzed and validated information • To prepare white papers based on useful and information than can be “universal "acceptable providing a strategic view on national water resources; • To implement capacity building activities; • To discuss new perspectives and innovative solutions for water management; • To set the stage for the future publicizing and implementation of the recommendations of the IAC Study Panel on Water.

7. Term of ReferenceWater Resources in Country X30 pages • Written by an interdisciplinary team • Major issues to discuss: • Water Availability per capita and intensity use index • Surface and groundwater resources • Present and future water availability (overexploitation) • Water use per sector. Historical perspective of the percentages allocated towards each use. Evolution of the water stress index. • Water and agriculture.. Irrigation. Exportation of water trough produce (virtual water). • Water and industry. Industrial uses of water. Industrial pollution. Water productive efficiency (Industrial IVA/m3.yr) • Water for human use: quantity, quality and access. • Levels and geographic distribution of pollution/contamination. Impacts of agricultural, industrial and human pollution: water contamination. • Water in urban areas: volume, access and availability. Quality of the water supply service (continuity, for instance) Water distribution efficiency. Percentages of water loss. Price of water in urban and rural areas • Water and municipal wastewater treatment. Coverage, percentages and applied technologies for urban and rural areas. Sewer coverage Treatment costs. Water recycling and reuse • Water and human health. Major diseases transmited water (directly or indirectly such as consumption of produce irrigate with polluted water) impacts on human health; water epidemiology. • Water and Economy. National reliance on water for development. Role of water in subregional economies. Water sector income and water sector budgets. Relation GNP to water services and comparison with similar income countries • Water for energy and impacts of dams • Floods and droughts. Intensity, impacts on human health and economy • Water legislation: laws, norms and water rights. • Water conflicts (within the country, transboundary) • Water governance: how is water managed? Water management. Management technologies. Public versus private water management: lessons from the experience. Good and bad examples of water management in the country. Public participation • Scenarios due to global changes. • Water, culture and religion.

8. IANAS Water Programme • (a) establish National Water Committees that will help Academies provide advice to governments and society, thus enhancing their social relevance; • (b) prepare white papers providing a strategic view on national water resources; • (c) implement capacity building activities; • (d) discuss new perspectives and innovative solutions for water management; • (e) set the stage for the future publicizing and implementation of the recommendations of the IAC Study Panel on Water.

9. 4th Meeting of the Focal Managua, Nicaragua, 30-31 May  2009. • To present a first version of the white papers • Hosted by Nicaragua through Dr. Katherine Vammen, Vice-Director of the Nicaraguan Centre for Water Research and the team leader for CARA ( Central American Water Resource Management Network ) at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua. • .

10. 4th Meeting of the Focal Managua, NicaraguaRESULTS • 17 Water Countries profiles were presented • To produce them, some Academies have collaborated with national experts to produce the best reliable information • Once the similar problems were discussed it was decided to • Produce a Declaration (The ManAGUA Declaration to be endorsed by this board, 14 WR signed) • To publish the countries water profiles in English and in Spanish (one of this as an electronic book) • To proceed to produce white papers through discussion with the local government and stakeholders using the information contained on the country’s profiles

11. IN SEVERAL CASES THERE ARE > 1 author

12. Brazil and Mexico : Books • Brazil as an activity independent of IANAS • Mexico as part as IANAS-AMC activities • With CONAGUA (Mexico Federal Water Management Commission) sponsorship • With contributions from • 80 authors, where at least 1 authors per chapter is a young scientist • 14 states • 40 institutions

13. Water in XXX, Book • Water Resources • Water and sustainable development • Climate Change and Water • Groundwater/Ecohidrology • Water Quality • Water and ecosystems • Limnology • Water and Health • Water Services for Municipalities • Water, Livestock and Agriculture • Water and industry • Urban Water • Water and Ecotourism • Water and Energy • Water and Transportation • Aquaculture • Hydroeconomy • Institutional and Legal Framework • Water and Women • Public Participation NEXT STEP

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15. Budget • 1 project for meetings presented tp IAP was not accepted • Partial support for the countries water profiles to be printed AND translated • At national level not all WFP will be able to obtain support for their book

16. Sanitation July 30, 2009