Lessons learnt and roadmap to World Water Day by Zafar Adeel, Director United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)
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Lessons learnt and roadmap to World Water Day by Zafar Adeel, Director United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)
1. Conclusions for WWD 2014
Zafar Adeel
United Nations University
Institute for Water, Environment and Health
3. Take-away Points – 2
2. Application of technology, research,
innovation
• Improving consumer behavior: energy-efficient appliances
(Singapore)
• Technologies: Solar heating (Israel); recycling water and heat
in energy generation (US, Brazil, Israel); Linked provisioning
of energy and water (Casablanca)
• Analysis: Modeling complexity; best cooling technologies
4. Take-away Points – 3
3. Achieving sustainability for water-energy nexus
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Need to overcome very significant fragmentation within sectors
Making the business case for water-energy nexus – job creation
Growth of energy sector/new options constrained by water?
Reviewing untapped hydropower potential
Scaling up pilot examples of
Industry partnerships as a means to achieve sustainability
(Australia)
5. Take-away Points – 4
4. Creating enabling environment, incentives,
funding mechanisms
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Water scarcity as the incentive (….And energy scarcity??)
Linked policies (Israel, Singapore, Spain)
Gaps: linked incentives; integrated decision support systems
Creating partnerships without public funding – corporate
capital
• Building capacity !!