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TOWARDS A WATER SECURE WORLDDr Mohamed AIT KADI

GWP/Technical 

Committee 

ASIA WATER WEEK 2013

11‐15 March 2013

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WATER SECURE WORLDWATER SECURE WORLD

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Water Security =  A Global Concern

The challenge of  securing safe and plentiful water for 

all of  us is one of  the most daunting challenges faced

y t e wor   to ay… Our exper ences te   us t at

environmental stress 

due 

to 

lack of  

water 

may lead to 

conflict and would be greater in poor countries 

UN secretary‐General Ban Ki‐moon

WEF, 24 Jannuary 2008

Humanity is facing « water bankrupcy » as a result of  a 

crisis even greater than the financial meldown now

destabilizing the global

 economy …

 it is already

beginning to take effect, and there will be no way of  

bailing the earth out of  water scarcity … 

G. Lean, The Independent, 15 March 2009 

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Governance

Ga s

Water Security and 

Interconnected Risks

GeopoliticalBiodiversity

LossRisks

Globalization

Water

Security

Economic

Risks

Env.

Risks

Water

Scarcity

Food Price

Volatility

Societal

Extreme

Weather

F/D/DES

Oil Price

Volatilityrisks

Migration

Chronic

disease

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New Enabling Environment & Instruments

• Policy instruments that promote complementarities (economic, social, 

env ;  everage c ange 

• Fiscal instruments: measures

 that

 give

 a price

 to

 environmental

 goods

 

• Stren thened institutional arran ements that function within increasin  

complexity, cutting across sectoral silos and sovereign boundaries.

•

A new

 generation

 of 

 financial

 instruments

 that

 share

 risk

 between

 

• Skills development: a new and evolving set of  skills to support water 

management reforms

• Information and monitoring: set targets, define trajectories and gather the 

right information to monitor progress (eg . Water security indicators)

• Innovation  lannin :  increasin   water  roductivit …

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It is not the strongest of  the species that 

survive, nor the most intelligent, but the 

one mos

 respons ve

 o

 c ange.

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Comment nourrir l’humanité?

Thank you!

This is a

 unique

 time

 in

 history – decisions made

 now will disproportionately influence

 the

 

future !!!