1 / 44

Whose water is it anyway?

Whose water is it anyway?. Andras Szöllösi-Nagy Deputy Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences Secretary, International Hydrological Programme UNESCO. CRITICAL PROBLEMS. Too much or too little water Floods Droughts Poor distribution Famine Poor quality Health hazard

emele
Download Presentation

Whose water is it anyway?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Whose water is it anyway? Andras Szöllösi-Nagy Deputy Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences Secretary, International Hydrological Programme UNESCO

  2. CRITICAL PROBLEMS • Too much or too little water • Floods • Droughts • Poor distribution • Famine • Poor quality • Health hazard • Poor management • Competition • Conflicts

  3. LOOMING WATER CRISES

  4. NEEDS, USES AND DEMANDS • Water and the Environment • Water for Food Security • Water for Human Health • Water and Industry • Water and Energy

  5. THE NATURE OF WATER • Surface water / soil moisture / groundwater • Quantity and quality • Variation in space and time / reliability • Long-term trends • Extreme events

  6. RAISING AWARENESS

  7. PERTINENT QUESTIONS • How much have we advanced the awareness of humans (including politicians)? • In what directions should we go to further advance the awareness of people?

  8. The challenge we all have How to put water in the mindsof people?

  9. What happened over the past 10 years? • 1992 • ICWE (Dublin) • Four Dublin Principles • UNCED (Rio de Janeiro) • Agenda 21, Chapter 18 • No convention nor binding agreement on water • UN CSD set up

  10. What happened over the past 10 years? • 1994 • CSD Commissions • The first UN Comprehensive Assessment of the World Water Resources

  11. What happened over the past 10 years? • 1997 • 1st World Water Forum (Marrakech) • UN GA Special Session 19 (Rio +5) “…water will become a major limiting factor in socio-economic development…” • UN GA 51 Adoption of the UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of Transboundary Water Courses

  12. What happened over the past 10 years? • 1998 • WWC launches a global project Vision for Water for the 21st Century • 1999 • UN ACC/Sub-Committee on Water Resources Proposes the regular production of the World Water Development Report (WWDR)

  13. What happened over the past 10 years? • 2000 • 2nd World Water Forum, The Hague • Presentation of the World Water Vision • UNESCO launching the UN system-wide World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) • UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education: idea launched

  14. What happened over the past 10 years? UNGA : Millenium Development Goals • Poverty eradication • Water supply and sanitation

  15. World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) The State of The World’s Freshwater Resources

  16. Ensuring Knowledge Base Valuing Water Managing Risks Sharing Water Water and Industry Protecting Human Health Securing the Food Supply Water and Ecosystems Water and Energy The Challenge Areas Governing Water Wisely Cities

  17. March 2001, Mr. Kofi Annan announced that “as a system-wide programme, the WWAP brings worldwide attention to the critical, but often overlooked, role of water within human development.” • March 2002, Mr. Annan assured the world that “The organizations of the United Nations system are preparing the first edition of the World Water Development Report.” World Attention

  18. OUR GOAL IS TO • Prepare the most comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the state of water based on indicators • Advise countries to take appropriate decisions based on authoritative reporting • Create a sustainable exercise in reporting progress • Continue building a durable UN system-wide collaboration • Build capacities to better monitor progress

  19. PERTINENT QUESTIONS

  20. From Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential Water for Peace a contribution toWorld Water Assessment Programme

  21. Purpose: To tip the balance in favour of co-operation potential away from potential conflicts in order to enhance water security

  22. 12 December 2001 UNESCO and GCI join forces to avert water conflicts

  23. Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development • A very difficult negotiation process • WEHAB • Water came out very strongly • Water supply and sanitation goals • IWRM • Global water cycle research • Water assessment • UN Water • Decade on Education for Sustainable Development

  24. What happened over the past 10 years? 2003 : 3rd World Water Forum • WWDR released • Make WWAP a global water monitoring facility • Global groundwater inventory released • Strengthen global hydrological research and monitoring • UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education opens • Establish water education programmes at all levels • Ministerial meeting held • Institutionalize it as an intergovernmental follow-up action mechanism to agree on commitments and as a review process • Water Cooperation Facility announced

  25. Yet, some issues still hotly debated remained: • Privatization / pricing • The dam controvery Cui prodest?

  26. Parallel history : advances in scientific awareness • Water recognized as a complex global science issue • Need for interdisciplinarity recognized • If the answer is APPLY MORE TECHNOLOGY, what was the question? • Hydrological observation systems slowly deteriorating  build WHYCOS • Couple atmospheric-hydrological-ecological processes

  27. International Year of Freshwater

  28. Water Interactions : Systems at Risk and Social Challenges Plan for the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO - Phase VI (2002-2007)

  29. IHP VI (2002-2007) • Examples of Interactions • Surface water and groundwater • Atmospheric and terrestrial part of hydrologic circle • Freshwater and salt water • Global watershed and river reach scales • Water bodies, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems • Water and society • Science and policy • Water and civilization

  30. IHP VI (2002-2007) • Theme 1 (T1) Global Changes and Water Resources • Theme 2 (T2) Integrated Watershed and Aquifer Dynamics • Theme 3 (T3) Land Habitat Hydrology • Theme 4 (T4) Water and Society • Theme 5 (T5) Water Education and Training Two cross-cutting programme components (CCPCs): FRIEND (Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data) and HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy) have been identified which, through their operational concept, interact with all themes.

  31. UNESCO Chairs in Water Associated Programmes ISI JIIHP IFP Interlinkages of IHP-VI, HELP and FRIEND UNESCO BUDGETARY UMBRELLA UNESCO Institutes / Centers T 5 T1 FRIEND T 4 T2 HELP T3 UNESCO -IHE Institute for Water Education

  32. Flow Regimes from International Experimental andNetworkData An International Collaborative Study in Regional Hydrology

  33. ... Real people HELP Real catchments Real answers Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) To deliver social, economic and environmental benefit to stakeholders through sustainable and appropriate use of water by directing hydrological science towards improved integrated catchment management basins Compiled from Mike Bonell, Jim Shuttleworth and Jim Wallace

  34. Real people HELP Real catchments Real answers ……based on outdated knowledge and technology Process hydrology Water managers and stakeholders research ideas design output Accepted practices understanding implementation Isolated by legal and professional precedence Isolated by lack of proven utility ... “Paradigm Lock ”

  35. RAISE AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE AND PARTICIPATION AT ALL LEVELS

  36. UNESCO Water Portalhttp://www.unesco.org/water

More Related