Table of Content - World Banksiteresources.worldbank.org/INTWAT/Resources/WW2009_v2.pdf · Peter Lubambo, Director for Housing and Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Local Government

Dear Water Week participant, We are pleased to welcome you to World Bank’s Water Week 2009 here in Washington, D.C. Water Week 2009 "Tackling Global Water Challenges" will focus on the urgent challenges currently faced by the water community including adapting to climate change, responding to the food crisis, keeping the momentum for the MDGs, and dealing with the potential impact of the global economic crisis. Water Week 2009 will provide a unique opportunity to address these many water challenges by exchanging experiences and discussing how the World Bank can better serve our client governments by helping them find viable solutions. This booklet is your guide through Water Week. It is up to date as of February 10, 2009, the date it went to print - but sessions can slightly vary from the description and speakers contained in here. We look forward to your active role in the discussions and contribution to an exciting week here at the World Bank. We wish you a successful and enjoyable Water Week, Jamal Saghir Abel Mejia Philippe Marin Director, ETW Manager, Water Anchor Coordinator Water Week 2009 Table of Content 1. One Page Agenda Grid ------------------------------------------------------ ii and back cover 2. Concise Agenda with Speakers ---------------------------------------------------------------1 3. Session Descriptions-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 4. Friday Events ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 77 5. Logistical Information (Services & Maps) ------------------------------------------------ 86

i

TU

ESD

AY

, Feb

ruar

y 17

9:

30 -

10:3

0 O

PEN

ING

PLE

NA

RY

(Pre

ston

Aud

itoriu

m)

Bre

ak

11:0

0 -

12:3

0 Pa

nel o

n th

e Im

pact

of t

he F

inan

cial

Cri

sis o

n th

e W

ater

Sec

tor

(Pre

ston

Aud

itori

um)

Lun

ch

14:0

0 -

15:3

0

1. C

limat

e re

silie

nce

of

infr

astru

ctur

e in

vest

men

ts (J

B1-

080)

2. In

vest

ing

in ir

rigat

ion:

the

AgW

A in

itiat

ive

for A

fric

a (M

C6-

100)

3. P

ublic

-priv

ate

partn

ersh

ips (

PPPs

) fo

r urb

an w

ater

util

ities

in

deve

lopi

ng c

ount

ries (

Pres

ton)

4. F

inan

cing

acc

ess f

or

rura

l WSS

(MC

13-1

21)

5. F

lood

man

agem

ent

(MC

2-80

0)

6. H

ydro

pow

er

Dev

elop

men

t with

in th

e En

ergy

-Wat

er N

exus

(MC

4-80

0)

Bre

ak

16:0

0 -

17:3

0

Clim

ate

resi

lienc

e of

in

fras

truct

ure

inve

stm

ents

(C

ont’d

) (JB

1-08

0)

7. Im

prov

ing

agric

ultu

ral

rain

wat

er m

anag

emen

t (M

C6-

100)

PPPs

for u

rban

wat

er u

tiliti

es in

de

velo

ping

cou

ntrie

s (C

ont’d

) (P

rest

on)

8. S

mal

l tow

ns W

SS: t

he

scal

e is

sue

(MC

13-1

21)

Floo

d m

anag

emen

t (C

ont’d

) (M

C2-

800)

Hyd

ropo

wer

Dev

elop

men

t w

ithin

the

Ener

gy-W

ater

N

exus

(Con

t’d) (

MC

4-80

0)

R

ecep

tion

WE

DN

ESD

AY

, Feb

ruar

y 18

9:

00 -

10:3

0

9. O

pera

tiona

l im

plic

atio

ns o

f cl

imat

e ch

ange

: the

Afr

ica

pers

pect

ive

(JB

1-08

0)

10. U

rban

was

tew

ater

reus

e in

agr

icul

ture

(MC

6-10

0)

11. R

efor

min

g pu

blic

util

ities

: in

stru

men

ts a

nd e

xper

ienc

es

(Pre

ston

)

12. P

anel

: whe

re d

o w

e st

and

with

the

MD

Gs?

(M

C13

-121

)

13. I

nteg

rate

d ur

ban

wat

er m

anag

emen

t (M

C2-

800)

14. H

ydro

pow

er: t

he

pote

ntia

l for

smal

l hyd

ro

(MC

4-80

0)

Bre

ak

11:0

0 -

12:3

0

15. N

ew to

ol fo

r pra

ctiti

oner

s:

glob

al c

limat

e ch

ange

pro

ject

ions

of

hyd

rolo

gica

l driv

ers (

JB1-

080)

16. I

mpr

ovin

g w

ater

ef

ficie

ncy

in a

gric

ultu

re

(MC

6-10

0)

Ref

orm

ing

publ

ic u

tiliti

es:

inst

rum

ents

and

exp

erie

nces

(C

ont’d

) (Pr

esto

n)

17. O

BA

in th

e w

ater

se

ctor

: con

nect

ing

the

poor

– w

hat h

ave

we

lear

ned

so fa

r? (M

C13

-12

1)

Inte

grat

ed u

rban

wat

er

man

agem

ent (

Con

t’d)

(MC

2-80

0)

18. F

inan

cing

and

pric

ing

of

wat

er (M

C4-

800)

Lun

ch

14:0

0 -

15:3

0

19. R

espo

ndin

g to

Incr

ease

d Sc

arci

ty: T

he C

ases

of A

ustra

lia

and

Mex

ico

(JB

1-08

0)

20. M

odel

ing

the

impa

ct o

f cl

imat

e ch

ange

on

agric

ultu

re (M

C6-

100)

21. I

mpr

ovin

g op

erat

iona

l eff

icie

ncy

of W

SS u

tiliti

es (P

rest

on)

22. S

calin

g up

hyg

iene

an

d ba

sic

sani

tatio

n (M

C13

-121

)

23. S

usta

inab

le

grou

ndw

ater

use

–

with

in o

ur re

ach?

(M

C2-

800)

24. U

sing

pub

lic

expe

nditu

res r

evie

ws (

PER

s)

(MC

4-80

0)

Bre

ak

16:0

0 -

17:3

0

25. D

isas

ter i

n th

e m

eltin

g: t

he

impl

icat

ions

of r

apid

war

min

g in

m

ount

ain

ecos

yste

ms (

JB1-

080)

26. M

odel

ing

tool

s for

ag

ricul

tura

l wat

er

man

agem

ent (

MC

6-10

0)

Impr

ovin

g op

erat

iona

l eff

icie

ncy

of

WSS

util

ities

(Con

t’d) (

Pres

ton)

Scal

ing

up h

ygie

ne a

nd

basi

c sa

nita

tion

(Con

t’d)

(MC

13-1

21)

27. W

aste

wat

er

treat

men

t and

car

bon

foot

prin

t (M

C2-

800)

28. E

nviro

nmen

t in

high

risk

w

ater

infr

astru

ctur

e (M

C4-

800)

TH

UR

SDA

Y, F

ebru

ary

19

9:00

- 10

:30

29. I

nnov

ativ

e kn

owle

dge

diss

emin

atio

n in

the

wat

er se

ctor

(J

B1-

080)

30. P

PPs f

or ir

rigat

ion:

new

pe

rspe

ctiv

es (M

C6-

100)

31

. Rur

al W

SS p

rovi

ders

: loc

al

PPPs

(Pr

esto

n)

32. A

cces

s for

the

urba

n po

or (1

) (M

C13

-121

)

33. R

iver

bas

in

man

agem

ent (

MC

2-80

0)

34. E

cono

mic

ana

lysi

s: w

hy

it m

atte

rs (M

C4-

800)

Bre

ak

11:0

0 -

12:3

0

Inno

vativ

e kn

owle

dge

diss

emin

atio

n in

the

wat

er se

ctor

(C

ont’d

) (JB

1-08

0)

35. A

dapt

ing

WSS

util

ities

to

clim

ate

chan

ge (M

C6-

100)

36. R

ural

WSS

pro

vide

rs:

com

mun

ity sc

hem

es (

Pres

ton)

37

. Acc

ess f

or th

e ur

ban

poor

(2)

(MC

13-1

21)

Riv

er b

asin

m

anag

emen

t (C

ont’d

) (M

C2-

800)

Econ

omic

ana

lysi

s (C

ont’d

) (M

C4-

800)

Lun

ch

14:3

0 -

16:0

0 C

LOSI

NG

PLE

NA

RY

(Pre

ston

Aud

itoriu

m)

FRID

AY

, Feb

ruar

y 20

Them

atic

and

Sec

tor S

essi

ons (

Ban

k St

aff O

nly)

ii

Concise Agenda with Speakers

1

Concise Agenda with Speakers

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 8:00 a.m. MC Lobby Breakfast and Registration

Opening Plenary 9:30 a.m. Preston

Auditorium Chair: Jamal Saghir, Director, Energy Transport and Water

Department, World Bank

10:30 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Preston Auditorium

Panel on the Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Water Sector

Chair: Jaehyang So, Manager, Water and Sanitation Program, Energy Transport & Water Department, World Bank

Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga, Director, Economic Policy & Debt Department (PRMED), World Bank

Ms. Pamela Cox, Regional Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank

Mr. Rashad-Rudolf Kaldany, Vice President, Middle East and North Africa and Global Infrastructure Cluster (CMIVP), International Finance Corporation

Ms. Gloria Grandolini, Director, Global Banking and Debt Management, World Bank

Mr. Jamal Saghir, Director, Energy Transport and Water, World Bank

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. JB1-080 1. Climate resilience of infrastructure investments

Chair: Vahid Alavian, Adviser, Water Anchor, Energy Transport & Water Dept, World Bank

Hydro-Quebec, Montreal Canada Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH) Representatives from various regions

2:00 p.m. MC6-100 2. Investing in Irrigation: The AgWA Initiative for Africa

Chair: Ashok Subramanian, Sector Manager, Water Resource Management, Africa Region, World Bank

H. E. Adugna Jabessa, State Minister, Ministry of Water Resources, Ethiopia

Badre Lanedri, Irrigation Specialist, World Bank, Ethiopia Markus Moeller, Irrigation Specialist, World Bank, Kenya IJsbrand H. de Jong, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Africa

Region, World Bank

2

2:00 p.m. Preston Auditorium

3. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for Urban Water Utilities in Developing countries

Chair: Wael Zakout, Sector Manager, Sustainable

Development, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank Philippe Marin, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, Water

Anchor (ETWWA), World Bank Katharina Gassner, Sr. Economist, Finance Economics &

Urban Dept., World Bank Matar Fall, Lead Water & Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable

Development, Africa Region, World Bank Michael Webster, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist,

Sustainable Development, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank

2:00 p.m. MC13-121 4. Financing Access for Rural WSS

Chair: Ato Brown, Sector Leader, Urban/Water Anglophone Department, Africa Region, World Bank

Eng. Chris Azuba, Ag. Asst. Commissioner, Ministry of Water and Environment, Government of Uganda

Elly Aguko, Senior Manager - Projects, K-rep Bank, Nairobi, Kenya

Jerimias Paul, Under-Secretary of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Government of Philippines

David Bot Ba Njock, Investment Officer, Corporate Advisory Services, International Finance Corporation

2:00 p.m. MC2-800 5. Flood Management

Chair: Luis Gabriel Todt de Azevedo, Director of Environment, Odebrecht Engineering and Construction (Brazil)

Prof. Robert Brackenridge, Director of the Darthmouth Flood Observatory

Dr. Thomas Hopson, Hydrometeorology Applications Program, UCAR

Prof. Lewis E. Link, Civil & Env. Engineering, U. Maryland; formerly USACE

Ms. Susana Saranga, Deputy Director, DNA Ms. Olinda Sousa, Director of Southern Regional Water

Authority - Mozambique Prof. Dr. Carlos E. M. Tucci, Institute of Hydraulic

Research. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil

2:00 p.m. MC4-800 6. Hydropower Development within the Energy-Water Nexus

Chair: Salman Zaheer, Sector Manager, Energy, South Asia Region, World Bank

Opening remarks: Jamal Saghir, Director, Energy Transport and Water Department, World Bank

3

Moses Mergezi, Advisor to the Permanent Secretary, Energy & Mineral Development

Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug, High Commissioner, Organisation Pour La Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Senegal (OMVS)

Daryl Fields, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Water Anchor, ETWWA

Pyush Dogra Environmental Specialist, Soc., Env. & Water Resources, South Asia Region, World Bank

3:30 p.m. Break

1. Climate resilience of infrastructure investments (Cont’d) 4:00 p.m. JB1-080 4:00 p.m. MC6-100 7. Improving Agricultural Rainwater Management

Chair: Abel Mejia, Sector Manager, Water Anchor, Energy, Transport and Water Department, World Bank

William Critchley, Coordinator, Natural Resource Management Unit, Center for International Cooperation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Pieter Waalewijn, Irrigation Specialist, Water Resource Management Unit, Africa Region, World Bank

Norman Piccioni, Lead Rural Development Specialist, Agriculture & Rural Development, South Asia Region, World Bank

Ranjan Samantaray, Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist; Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank

Luis Constantino, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

Naji Abu-Hatim, Sr. Rural Development Specialist; Sustainable Development, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

4:00 p.m. Preston

Auditorium 3. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for Urban Water

Utilities in Developing countries (Cont’d)

Chair: Jamal Saghir, Director, Energy, Transport and Water Department, World Bank

Philippe Marin, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor (ETWWA), World Bank

Luiz Tavares, Lead Water & Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable Development, Africa Region, World Bank

Alexander Brailowski, Program Manager, Suez Environment

Philippe Guitard, Executive Vice President for Europe, VEOLIA

Mounir Zougari, Deputy General Manager, Office National de l'Eau Potable (ONEP) tbc

4

4:00 p.m. MC13-121 8. Small Towns WSS: the Scale Issue Chair: Bill Kingdom, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist,

Urban, Water and Sanitation, South Asia Region, World Bank

Cesar Enriquez Yniguez, Consultant, WSP-SA, Philippines Mr. R.K. Van-Ess, Director, Technical Services,

Community Water and Sanitation Agency, Ghana Mr. Peter Lubambo, Director for Housing and

Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Local Government and Housing, Zambia

5. Flood Management (Cont’d) 4:00 p.m. MC2-800

Mir Sajjad Hossain, Member Joint River Commission,

Bangladesh Naji Abu-Hatim, Senior Rural Development Specialist,

Sustainable Rural Development, Agriculture, Water and Environment, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

4:00 p.m. MC4-800 6. Hydropower Development within the Energy-Water

Nexus (Cont’d)

6:00 p.m. Atrium Reception

5

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 8:00 a.m. Preston

Overflow Breakfast

9:00 a.m. JB1-080 9. Operational Implications of Climate Change: the Africa

Perspective Co-Chairs: Ashok Subramanian, Sector Manager,

AFTWR, World Bank and Barbara Miller, Lead Water Resources Management Specialist, AFTWR, World Bank

Harshadeep Nagaraja Rao, Sr. Environmental Specialist, SASDI, World Bank

Michael Westphal, Climate Specialist, AFTWR, World Bank.

Ken Strzepek, Water Resources Engineer & Economist, University Of Colorado

Anthony Powell, Water Resources Specialist, AFTWR, World Bank.

Marc Jeuland, Water Economist, University of North Carolina

Walter Garvey, Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank

9:00 a.m. MC6-100 10. Urban Wastewater Reuse in Agriculture

Chair: Vijay Jagannathan, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

Julio Moscoso Cavallini, Adviser, Wastewater Reuse Management, Institute for the Promotion of Sustainable Development (IPES), Lima

Duncan Mara, Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds

Liqa Raschid-Sally, Senior Researcher, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), West Africa

Menahem Libhaber, Lead Sanitary Engineer, Urban Unit, Sustainable Development Department, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank

9:00 a.m. Preston

Auditorium 11. Reforming Public Utilities: Instruments and Experiences

Chair: Guang Zhe Chen, Sector Manager, LCR, World Bank

Gesner Oliveira, President, Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de São Paulo (SABESP) – Brazil

Federico Restrepo, General Manager (TBC), Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) – Colombia

Dr William Muhairwe, Managing Director, National Water and Sewerage Corporation – Uganda

6

Matar Fall, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, AFTU2 (presenting the experience of Office National de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement – ONEA in Burkina Faso)

9:00 a.m. MC13-121 12. Panel: Where do we stand with the MDGs? Chair: Jon Lane, Water Supply and Sanitation

Collaborative Council Santha Sheela Nair, Secretary, Department of Drinking

Water Supply, Government of India Maurice Bernard, Manager, Water Division, Agence

Française de Développement (AFD) Henry Northover, Head of Policy for WaterAid Jaeyang So, Manager, Water and Sanitation Program

(WSP), World Bank Engr. Mohammed el-Alfi, Assistant Minister of Housing

and Chief Regulator of Egyptian water utilities, Government of Egypt

9:00 a.m. MC2-800 13. Integrated Urban Water Management


Philippe Marin, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor, World Bank

Alexi Boado, Watershed Ecologist, Versar Inc., USA Ricardo Toledo Silva, Deputy Secretary of State for Water

and Energy, São Paulo State Government, Brazil Monica Porto, Professor of Hydraulic and Sanitary

Engineering, The University of São Paulo, Brazil Carlos Tucci, Consultant, Water Anchor, Energy, Transport

and Water Department, World Bank Dr. Young-June, CHOI, Director, Chief Research Officer,

Waterworks Research Institute, Seoul Metropolitan Government

Richard Batiuk, Associate Director for Science, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

9:00 a.m. MC4-800 14. Hydropower - the Potential for Small Hydro Chair: Philippe Charles Benoit, Sector Manager, Energy,

LCSEG, World Bank Glenn Morgan, Lead Environmental Specialist (LCSEN) Doug Hall, Idaho National Labs Maximiliano Espinosa Valderrama, Government of

Antioquia Daryl Fields, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Water Anchor,

ETWWA, World Bank

10:30 a.m. Break

7

11:00 a.m. JB1-080 15. New Tool for Practitioners: Global Climate Change Projections of Hydrological Drivers

Chair: Vahid Alavian, Water Advisor, Water Anchor,

Energy Transport and Water Department, World Bank Kenneth Strzepek, Professor (Civil, Environmental and

Architectural Engineering), University of Colorado 11:00 a.m. MC6-100 16. Improving Water Efficiency in Agriculture

Chair: Mark Rosegrant, Division Director, Environment and Production Technology, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (tbc)

Chris Perry, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)

Liping Jiang, Sr. Irrigation Engineer, Sustainable Development Department, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank (tbc)

Sanjay Pahuja, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Soc., Env. & Water Resources, South Asia Region, World Bank

Guy Alaerts, Lead Water Resources Specialist, Rural Dev, Nat Res & Envmt, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank

Paulus Van Hofwegen, Consultant, Rural Dev, Nat Res & Envmt, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank

11:00 a.m. Preston Auditorium

11. Reforming Public Utilities: Instruments and Experiences-(Cont’d)

11:00 a.m. MC13-121 17. OBA in the water sector: Connecting the poor – What

have we learned so far?

Chair: Luiz Claudio Martins Tavares, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, Urban/Water Anglophone Sector Unit, Sustainable Development Front Office, Africa Regional Office, World Bank

Alain Mathys, Manager, Access to Water, Suez Environnement

Christopher Azuba, Acting Assistant Commissioner (Water Authorities), Directorate of Water Development, Ministry of Water and Environment of Uganda

Cledan Mandri-Perrott, Senior Infrastructure Specialist, Finance, Economics, and Urban Department, Sustainable Development Vice Presidency, World Bank

Manuel Schiffler, Senior Economist, Urban Sector Unit, Sustainable Development Department, Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office, World Bank

Pier Francesco Mantovani, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, World Bank

Yogita Mumssen, Senior Infrastructure Economist, Finance, Economics, and Urban Department, Sustainable Development Vice Presidency, World Bank

8

13. Integrated Urban Water Management (Cont’d) 11:00 a.m. MC2-800

11:00 a.m. MC4-800 18. Financing and Pricing of Water

Chair: Vivien Foster, Lead Economist, Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure, Africa Region, World Bank

Angela Marcarino Paris, Sr. Water Specialist, Water Anchor, ETWWA, World Bank

Peter Borkey, Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

12:30 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. JB1-080 19. Responding to Increased Scarcity: The cases of Australia

and Mexico

Chair: Laura Tlaiye, Sector Manager, Environment, Latin America Region, World Bank

Sergio Soto Priante, Deputy Director General, Sub Direction of Hydraulic Infrastructure for Agriculture, National Water Agency, Mexico

David Downie, General Manager, Department of Sustainability and the Environment, Government of Victoria, Australia

2:00 p.m. MC6-100 20. Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture


Winston Yu, Water Resources Specialist, SAR, World Bank Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist,

NASA/Godard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia University

Raffaello Cervigni, Senior Natural Resources Economist, MENA, World Bank

Dominique Van Der Mensbrugghe, Lead Economist, DEC, World Bank

2:00 p.m. Preston

Auditorium 21. Improving Operational Efficiency of WSS Utilities:

Sharing some Experiences from the Field

Chair: Paul Reiter, Executive Director, International Water Association (IWA)

Roland Liemberger, Regional Director, Asia, Miya Group Mark Husmann, President, Pöyry Environment GmbH Jean Marc Jahn, General Manager, SEAAL Suez Patrice Fonlladosa, Executive VP Africa, Middle East and

India, VEOLIA

9

Oscar Alvarado, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, Urban, Water and Sanitation, South Asia Region, World Bank

Eduardo Ibañez, Director of Institutional Development, National Water Agency of Mexico (Conagua)

Siemen Veenstra, Project Director, Vitens-Evides Int’l Vasile Ciomos, Executive Director of the Romanian water

association Calin Neamtu, Technical Director, Compania de Apa Somes

2:00 p.m. MC13-121 22. Scaling Up Hygiene and Basic Sanitation Effectively and

Sustainably: Lessons from the Field

Chair: Eustache Ouayoro, Sector Manager, Urban/Water Unit, Africa Region, World Bank

Rocio Florez Peschiera, Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program Latin America Region, World Bank

Malva Baskovich, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, Latin America Region, World Bank

Belete Muluneh, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program, Africa Region, World Bank

Asrat Genet, Head, Regional Health Bureau, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Mohammad Farhanullah Sami, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program, South Asia Region, World Bank

Poonam Pillai, Senior Environmental Specialist, Environment Unit, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank

Sophie Tremolet, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank

Abdulrazak Badru, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, Africa Region, World Bank

Seydou Koita, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, Africa Region, World Bank

2:00 p.m. MC2-800 23. Sustainable groundwater use – within our reach?

Chair: Karin Kemper, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development Department, South Asia Region, World Bank

Stephen Foster, Director, Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GWMATE)

Hector Garduño, Consultant, Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GWMATE)

2:00 p.m. MC4-800 24. Using Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs)


Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, Senior Infrastructure Economist, Sustainable Development Office, Africa Region, World Bank

10

Caroline van den Berg, Senior Economist, Water Anchor, Energy, Transport and Water Department, World Bank

Smita Misra, Senior Economist, Urban Water and Sanitation Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank

Christophe Prevost, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program South East Asia, World Bank

3:30 p.m. Break 4:00 p.m. JB1-080 25. Disaster in the Melting: the implications of rapid

warming in mountain ecosystems


Walter Vergara, Lead Chemical Engineer, Environment, Latin America Region, World Bank

Daniel Ruiz, Engineer, Escuela de Ingenieria de Antioquia, Colombia

Donald L. Alford, Water Resources Specialist (consultant), Soc., Env. & Water Resources, South Asia Region, World Bank

Richard Armstrong, Glaciologist, University of Colorado 4:00 p.m. MC6-100 26. Modeling Tools for Agricultural Water Management

Chair: Grant Milne, Senior Natural Resources Management. Specialist, Agriculture & Rural Development Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank

Susanne Scheierling, Senior Irrigation Water Economist, Water Anchor, Energy, Water and Transport Department, World Bank

Raghavan Srinivasan, Professor and Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Texas AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University

Bruce McCarl, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University

Franck Ward, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business, New Mexico State University

Terry L. Roe, Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

4:00 p.m. Preston

Auditorium 21. Improving Operational Efficiency of WSS Utilities:

Sharing some Experiences from the Field (Cont’d) 4:00 p.m. MC13-121 22. Scaling Up Hygiene and Basic Sanitation Effectively and

Sustainably: Lessons from the Field (Cont’d)

4:00 p.m. MC2-800 27. Wastewater Treatment and Carbon Footprint

Chair: Charles W. Peterson, Sr. Environmental Specialist,

11

ENVCF, World Bank Alvaro Orozco, Professor, Los Andes University, Bogota,

Colombia (retired), Consulting Engineer Menahem Libhaber, Lead Sanitary Engineer, Urban and

Water Unit, Latin America Region, World Bank Fernando Yavari, Director of Projects and Works,

SAGUAPAC Water and Sanitation Utility, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

4:00 p.m. MC4-800 28. Environment in High Risk Water Resources Infrastructure

Chair: Michelle de Nevers, Senior Manager, Environment Department, World Bank

Rafik Hirji, Senior Water Resources Specialist, ETWWA, World Bank

Gregory Thomas, President, Natural Heritage Institute, San Francisco, California

John Matthews, Freshwater Climate Change Specialist, WWF Climate Adaptation Center, Oregon

12

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 8:00 a.m. Preston

Overflow Breakfast

9:00 a.m. JB1-080 29. Innovative Knowledge Dissemination in the Water Sector

Chair: Konrad von Ritter, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development Division, World Bank Institute

Aldo Baietti, Water Program Leader and Lead Specialist, World Bank Institute

Mei Xie, Senior Water Resources Specialist, World Bank Institute

Alyson Kleine, Operations Analyst, World Bank Institute

9:00 a.m. MC6-100 30. PPPs for Irrigation: New Perspectives

Co-Chairs: Dr. Fernando Gonzalez V and Laura Tlaiye, Sector Manager LCSEN

Luis Rendón, General Director of Irrigation Districts and Units - CONAGUA, Mexico

Pedro Guerrero, Coordinador Nacional de Formalizacion de Derechos de Agua MINIFAL, Peru

Anand Hemnani, Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of CG/LA Infrastructure

Jennifer Sara, SD Sector Leader for Brazil, World Bank Clementino Coelho, Director of Infrastructure

Development, CODEVASF, Brazil

31. Rural WSS Providers: Local PPPs 9:00 a.m. Preston Auditorium

Chair: Inger Andersen, Director, Sustainable Development Network, Africa Region, World Bank

Mussadiq Hussain, a private water operator from Balkasar, Pakistan

M.A Matin, Director of the Rural Development Academy, Bangladesh

Madio Fall, West and Central Africa Coordinator, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)-Africa, World Bank

Babou Sarr, Director of Direction de l'Exploitation et de la Maintenance (DEM), Ministry of Rural Hydraulic, Senegal

Jan Drozdz, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable Development Network, Africa Region-Cameroon, World Bank

9:00 a.m. MC13-121 32. Access for the Urban Poor (1)


Sr José Carlos Melo, consultant and recognized leader in condominial approaches

13

Geeta Sharma, communications officer, Water and Sanitation Program, New Delhi

A representative of the Ministry of Cities, Brazil (tbc)

9:00 a.m. MC2-800 33. River Basin Management

Chair: David Grey, Water Advisor, South Asia and Africa Region, World Bank

Dr. Rashid Latif, Minister of Water Resources of Iraq Barbara Miller, Lead Water Resources Specialist and Nile

Program Coordinator (AFR), World Bank Christophe Bosch, Country Sector Coordinator (ECA),

World Bank Joop Stoutjesdijk, Lead Irrigation Engineer (SAR), World

Bank

9:00 a.m. MC4-800 34. Economic analysis: why it matters

Chair: Lee Travers, Manager, World Bank /International Finance Corporation

Dale Whittington, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chris Perry, Irrigation Economist, Institute of Water and Environment, Cranfield University

Claire Kfouri, Water and Sanitation Specialist, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

10:30 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. JB1-080 29. Innovative Knowledge Dissemination in the Water Sector

(Cont’d)

Meike van Ginneken, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor, World Bank

Manuel Schiffler, Senior Economist, Latin America Region, World Bank

Rita Cestti, Senior Rural Development Specialist, Latin America Region, World Bank

Ana Nunez Sanchez, Extended Term Consultant, Latin America Region, World Bank

11:00 a.m. MC6-100 35. Adapting WSS Utilities to Climate Change


Alexander Danilenko, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, World Bank

Eric Dickson, Consultant, World Bank Islam Ul-Haque, Managing Director, Rawalpindi Water and

Sanitation Agency (Pakistan) (tbc) Dr. Liakath Ali, Deputy Managing Director of Dhaka Water

and Sanitation Agency (Bangladesh) Modesta Maria Hoyuela Diaz, Technical Advisor, Seville

Municipal Water Supply and Sanitation Company (Spain)

14

11:00 a.m. Preston

Auditorium 36. Rural WSS Providers: Community schemes

Chair: Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Sector Manager (Urban, Water and Disaster Risk Management), South Asia Sustainable Development Department, World Bank

Suman Prasad Sharma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Physical Planning and Works, Government of Nepal

W. Piyasena, Director General, RWSS Division and National Project Director, 2nd Community Water Supply and Sanitation Project, Sri Lanka

Ousseynou Diop, Sr. Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank

11:00 a.m. MC13 -121 37. Access for the Urban Poor (2)

Chair: Wambui Gichuri, Water and Sanitation Program Regional Team Leader, Africa Region, World Bank

Dennis Mwanza, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Africa Region, World Bank

Almud Weitz, Regional Team Leader, WSP, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank

Ms. Yvonne Siyeni, Acting Head, Peri Urban Unit, Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company

Marco Quiroga, Consultant, WSP Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank

33. River Basin Management (Cont’d) 11:00 a.m. MC2-800

Ousmane Dione, Lead Water Resources Specialist (SAR)

34. Economic analysis: why it matters (Cont’d) 11:00 a.m. MC4-800

Chair: Claudia W. Sadoff, Lead Economist, South Asia

Region, World Bank John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental

Engineering, Harvard University Danny Leipziger, Vice President, Poverty Reduction and

Economic Management, World Bank Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Africa Region,

World Bank Dale Whittington, Professor of Environmental Sciences and

Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

12:30 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m.

Preston Auditorium

Closing Plenary Abel Mejia, Sector Manager, Water Anchor, Energy,

Transport and Water Department, World Bank

15

Session Descriptions

16

Panel on the impact of the financial crisis on the water sector: How is the World Bank Group responding to the challenges posed by the financial crisis? Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: Preston Auditorium Session convener: Fernando Navarro Session Description

This session aims to approach the financial crisis (Crisis) from different perspectives and encourage open dialogue.

The Crisis is the latest in a series of crisis (food-fuel) to have hit developing countries in 2007-08. Despite the recent reversal of the rise in fuel prices, these crises have already caused a prolonged economic strain in developing economies and are likely to have significant social costs. The Crisis has not only increased the cost of funding for households, water utilities, service providers and governments but has also limited the availability of credit at all levels of the economy over 2009 and possibly beyond.

The Crisis is expected to have a magnified negative impact on both the supply and the demand side of the water value chain. A recent study sponsored by the Water Anchor foresees that the Crisis will adversely impact both the capacity of consumers to pay for operations and maintenance of their water supply, irrigation and sanitation systems and the capacity of emerging countries to invest in water sector infrastructure. Yet evidence suggests that the Crisis is not affecting all developing countries evenly: IDA countries have already been affected more severely, reversing earlier gains towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goals.

What are the implications of the Crisis on the poor? What will happen next? What are WBG views on this? How is the WBG reacting to the Crisis? These are some of the questions that the session seeks to address. Speakers

Chair: Jaehyang So, Manager, Water and Sanitation Program, Energy Transport & Water Department, World Bank

Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga, Director, Economic Policy & Debt Department (PRMED), World Bank. Mr. Primo Braga will provide a macro-economic overview of the Crisis.

Ms. Pamela Cox, Regional Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank. Ms. Cox will address the experience of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Mr. Rashad-Rudolf Kaldany, Vice President, Middle East and North Africa and Global Infrastructure Cluster (CMIVP), International Finance Corporation. Mr Kaldany will illustrate the constraints of the Crisis on the private sector.

17

Ms. Gloria Grandolini, Director, Global Banking and Debt Management, World Bank. Ms. Grandolini will share her insight about how the WB financial products can support our clients.

Mr. Jamal Saghir, Director, Energy Transport and Water, World Bank. Mr Saghir will summarize WBG response to the Crisis.

Format Short presentations followed by a public debate. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

18

http://www.worldbank.org/water

Session 1: Climate resilience of infrastructure investments Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: JB1-080 Session conveners: Vahid Alavian and Ron Hoffer

Session Description

The World Bank has made a major commitment to integrate emerging knowledge of climate science into infrastructure operations in our climate strategic framework, yet the approach to building climate resilience in the water sector portfolio is still at an early stage. Major Bank-led AAA work is still in process yet a number of clients and international organizations are seeking Bank input now with respect to guidance and standards. The purpose of this Water Week session is to see where Bank regions stand on this matter in a selected set of operations, and to reflect on the approach being taken by major development partners and consultants. Resulting views on data and methodology needs will influence applied research. The session will have two segments.

In the first segment, World Bank regional reps from at least 4 regions will present informally 2-3 cases where climate adaptation considerations are being integrated in sector planning (example for ECA will be Disaster Risk management and either the Sava Basin waterways or Central Asia hydropower). In the second segment, Hydro-Quebec will discuss their Bank-supported approach to assess climate risks and adaptation strategies in the hydropower sector. Montgomery, Watson & Harza will be discussing how their clients are responding to the climate challenges and the company’s approach to integrate the latest thinking into project design. Speakers


Presenters: Hydro-Quebec, Montreal Canada. Presentation: Adaptive Management to Climate Change Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH) Presentation: Adaptation of Hydraulic Infrastructure

to Climate Change Panelists:

Representation from various regions Format The session will be divided into two segments: the first half will comprise short reflections by Bank regional staff on the challenges they are facing in mainstreaming adaptation into one or more high level investment projects and programs. The second segment will bring in the perspective of two outside experts from a major hydropower company and a major consulting firm. All presentations will be followed by Q/A. At the end there will be facilitated open discussion revisiting data & methodology needs and concluding remarks. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

19


Session 2: Investing in Irrigation: The AgWA Initiative for Africa Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Room: MC6-100 Session convener: IJsbrand de Jong Session Description

Providing a more reliable access to water is a critical pre-condition to reduce poverty, promote economic growth and provide food security. In addition, agricultural water development can provide an important contribution to market connectivity, as a more reliable supply of agricultural products and higher and more uniform quality of products critically depend on a more reliable access to water. However, despite its potential benefits, there has been less agricultural water development to date in sub-Saharan Africa than in any other region.

As a response to this, a Partnership for Agricultural Water in Africa (AgWA) was launched jointly by AfDB, NEPAD and the World Bank. AgWA aims to bring African countries and development partners together in promoting the critical role of water to increase agricultural productivity, economic growth and poverty reduction in the continent. AgWA promotes renewed interest and re-engagement in agricultural water among policy decision makers. It will bring NEPAD, African Development Bank, World Bank, interested bi- and multilateral development partners, African countries and regional organizations such as the RECs and ARID/SARIA together in a comprehensive framework whereby distinct activities will be cross-leveraged.

This session will present AgWA as well as the progress that has been made since its launching. The presentation will also present country evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia on the need to scale-up investments in Ag water and the need to align donors around the issue of ag water. Speakers

Chair: Ashok Subramanian, Sector Manager, Water Resource Management, Africa Region, World Bank

H. E. Adugna Jabessa, State Minister, Ministry of Water Resources, Ethiopia Badre Lanedri, Irrigation Specialist, Water Resources Management, Africa Region

Ethiopia, World Bank Markus Moeller, Irrigation Specialist, Water Resources Management, Africa Region,

Kenya, World Bank IJsbrand H. de Jong, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Water Resources Management,

Africa Region, World Bank Format Presentations followed by Q/A. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

20


Session 3: Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for Urban Water Utilities in Developing countries: Review of the last 15 years of experiences, and debate about the future Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: Preston Auditorium Session conveners: Philippe Marin and Matar Fall Session Description

While the introduction of private water operators was widely promoted by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) back in the 1990s as a mean to turn around poorly performing utilities, the early termination of several high-profile PPP contracts in recent years has cast some doubts about the viability of this approach for developing countries.

In order to anchor the debate on solid, objective data, several studies have been carried out by the World Bank, with the support of PPIAF, in order to assess the actual performance of PPP projects involving the transfer of the management of an urban water utility to a private operator. The first half of this 3-hour session will allow WB staff to present key findings from these studies, in an attempt to get a better grasp of what has been the overall performance of water PPPs over the last fifteen years.

The second half of the session will be a debate about the new trends and future of water PPPs in developing countries. Recent market trends, as well as key lessons learned from the previous performance review, will first be presented to set the stage for the debate. Selected speakers from private companies will then present their own perspective to the audience, followed by an open debate. Speakers

First half (2:00 – 3:30 pm): what is the overall performance of water PPP projects?

Chair: Wael Zakout, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank

Philippe Marin, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor (ETWWA), World Bank. Presentation: Findings from a comprehensive performance review of PPP projects

Katharina Gassner, Sr. Economist, Finance Economics & Urban Dept., World Bank. Presentation: Findings from econometric study

Matar Fall, Lead Water & Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable Development, Africa Region, World Bank. Presentation: Key lessons from the PPP experiences in Western and Central Africa

Michael Webster, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable Development, Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank. Presentation: Lessons from the Albania 4 City Management Contract

21

Second half (4:00 – 5:30 pm): debate about the future of water PPPs in developing countries

Chair: Jamal Saghir, Director, Energy, Transport and Water Department, World Bank Speakers (10 minutes each):

Philippe Marin Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor (ETWWA), World Bank. Presentation: A new trend for water PPPs?

Luiz Tavares, Lead Water & Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable Development, Africa Region, World Bank. Presentation: From failure to success: turning around the Manila concessions

Alexander Brailowski, Program Manager, Suez Environment. Presentation: Learning from the past: a new approach to partnerships in developing countries

Philippe Guitard, Executive Vice President for Europe, VEOLIA. Presentation: The market for water PPPs in the ECA region

Mounir Zougari, Deputy General Manager, Office National de l'Eau Potable (ONEP). Presentation: A new regional player in water PPPs in Sub-Saharan Africa, (tbc)

Panelists (both sub-sessions):

Gerard Payen, President, International Federation of Private Water Operators (AquaFed).

Paul Reiter, Executive Director, International Water Association (IWA) Usha Rao-Monari, Senior manager, IFC Infrastructure Department Juergen Welschof, Division Chief, Water and Waste Management, MENA region,

German Development Agency KfW Manuel Mariño, Lead Water Specialist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region,

World Bank, (tbc) Format

PowerPoint presentations followed by Q/A (first half) or debate (second half) All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

22


Session 4: Financing Access for Rural WSS

Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Room: MC13-121 Session conveners: Yogita Mumssen and Kameel Virjee

Session Description

Every government must make choices regarding where to use its scarce public finances, and rural water and sanitation has not always been the top priority. The result often is to rely on dilapidated public infrastructure, informal providers, or reliance on non-improved sources.

Meeting rural and small town water and sanitation needs is one of development’s key challenges. There are wide supply- and demand - side gaps. On the supply side, formal piped systems that best serve concentrated rural areas require operational capacity and financial resources – both of which are often scarce. On the demand side, the relatively high cost of the initial investments can result in tariffs that are unaffordable to poor rural households, if sustainable tariffs are to be charged. Financial innovation and more clearly targeted assistance are required to help improve the availability and affordability of water supply services in the rapidly growing rural and small town market segment.

We explore three case studies where innovative solutions for financing rural and small town water supply access are being attempted. We start with Uganda, where reforms introducing the private sector into the management of small towns water supply have led to an innovative design, build and operate pilot project. We move then to Kenya, where a local micro-finance bank is providing project finance type loans to small community owned rural utilities. Finally, we examine the Philippines, where attempts to mobilize commercial finance by smaller utilities are ongoing. We conclude with some thoughts from IFC’s transaction advisory team considering issues around financing smaller scale water utilities.

Speakers

Chair: Ato Brown, Sector Leader, Water and Urban, Africa, World Bank

Eng. Chris Azuba, Ag. Asst. Commissioner, Ministry of Water and Environment, Government of Uganda

Elly Aguko, Head of Product Development, K-rep Bank, Nairobi, Kenya Jerimias Paul, Under-Secretary of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Government of

Philippines David Bot Ba Njock, Investment Officer, Corporate Advisory Services , International

Finance Corporation Format

Chair will introduce session (5 minutes) Chair will introduce each speaker prior to individual presentations Presentations = 3 * 15 minutes (45 minutes) IFC concluding thoughts on issues/challenges (10 minutes)

All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

23


Session 5: Flood Management Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 2:00 –5:30 p.m. Room: MC2-800 Session Conveners: Ousmane Dione, Javier Zuleta, Nagaraja Harshadeep and Winston Yu Session Description

Extreme water-related hazards such as floods have always been an impediment to sustainable economic growth and have undermined poverty alleviation efforts. Many developing countries, with poor flood forecasting, communication, preparedness, and response capacities have been especially impacted. This vulnerability to climate variability is expected to be further exacerbated with growing populations, economies, and climate change. Regional, national, and local systems need to be strengthened to meet these flood challenges. However, rapid technological developments offer developing countries opportunities to leapfrog traditional approaches to flood management. A judicious combination of non-structural and structural approaches can help improve resilience to such natural disasters and improve the capacity for climate risk adaptation.

The objective of this session is first to help Bank staff and clients become better acquainted with a global perspective on floods, and better understand recent applied research developments (e.g. in remote sensing and forecasting techniques). Secondly, building on these findings, to allow client countries to voice their issues and perspectives on flood management and the potential role of international community --particularly the World Bank-- could play, in a growing context of climate changes. Speakers

Chair: Luis Gabriel Todt de Azevedo, Director of Environment, Odebrecht Engineering and Construction (Brazil)

Part I (2:00-3:30 pm)

Session A: How Applied Research is Advancing… Prof. Robert Brackenridge, Director of the Darthmouth Flood Observatory.

Presentation: A Brief History of Floods: A Global Perspective Dr. Thomas Hopson, Hydrometeorology Applications Program, UCAR. Presentation:

Technological Improvements in Flood Forecasting Prof. Lewis E. Link, Civil & Env. Engineering, U. Maryland; formerly USACE.

Presentation: Understanding Risk to Guide Flood Protection Decisions

Session B: How the Client Practice is Advancing... Decision makers view and potential role of the World Bank in supporting clients countries

Mozambique: Ms Susana Saranga, Deputy Director, DNA, and Ms. Olinda Sousa, Director of Southern Regional Water Authority

Brazil: Prof. Dr. Carlos E. M. Tucci, Institute of Hydraulic Research, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

24

Part II (4:00 – 5:30 pm) Session B (continued): How the Client Practice is Advancing... Decision makers view and

potential role of the World Bank in supporting clients countries Bangladesh: Mir Sajjad Hossain, Member Joint River Commission Yemen: Naji Abu-Hatim, Senior Rural Development Specialist, Sustainable Rural

Development, Agriculture, Water and Environment, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

Panel Discussion Format

The sessions will have a combination of presentations, panel discussions, and general discussions (Q&A). All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

25


Session 6: Hydropower Development within the Energy-Water Nexus Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: MC4-800 Session convener: Daryl Fields Session Description

The objective of the session is to share perspectives about the World Bank’s experience, as well as discuss the challenges in water-energy infrastructure development, with a focus on obtaining insights from Bank clients. The session is organized in three stages: insights from the client’s perspective; a synthesis of the challenges; and a multi-sectoral panel discussion on the challenges and future of hydropower.

A request has been made of World Bank clients to provide a perspective on how Bank-supported water-energy infrastructure development is being realized within their countries and basin-wide, within the context of energy and water management. This information will include reflections on projects in terms of demand and growth; the role of the Bank, the preparation and implementation process, inclusive of challenges; perspectives on the multi-purpose dimension and benefit sharing; successes, and areas open to improvement. The discussion about challenges will include those encountered by the country, as well as those of the Bank. A diverse panel of external and Bank sectoral specialists will address the commonalities and challenges, lessons based on their experiences; and incorporating the client presented information, the panel will provide a perspective on the future of hydropower development.

This session is an opportunity to learn about emerging opportunities and issues, and to foster a dialogue between Bank staff, clients and external experts. Participation in this session will be beneficial from Bank staff and is an opportunity to obtain insight about Bank operations and methods, and to benefit from the discussion on the future of hydropower for the Bank. Speakers

Chair: Salman Zaheer, Sector Manager, Energy, South Asia Region, World Bank

Opening remarks: Jamal Saghir, Director, Energy Transport & Water Department, World Bank

Speakers: Moses Murengezi, Advisor to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Energy & Mineral

Development. Presentation: Private Power Generation Bujagali Project Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug, High Commissioner, Organisation Pour La Mise en

Valeur du Fleuve Senegal (OMVS). Presentation: Senegal River Basin Multipurpose Water Resources Development Project

Daryl Fields, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Water Anchor, ETWWA, World Bank and Pyush Dogra, Environmental Specialist, Soc., Env. & Water Resources, South Asia Region, World Bank. Presentation: Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project, India

Panelists: Alessandro Palmieri, Lead Dam Specialist, Quality Assurance & Compliance, World

Bank Joerg Hartman, Dams Initiative Leader, World Wildlife Fund

26

Xiaokai Li, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Agriculture & Rural Development, South Asia, World Bank

Tonci Bakovi, Chief Energy Specialist, International Finance Corporation Reidar Kvam, Regional Safeguards Adviser, Development Effectiveness, Latin America

and the Caribbean Region, World Bank Els Hinderdael-Forger, Procurement Adviser, Procurement Policy & Serv. Group,

World Bank Format The session will follow a traditional presentation format, a panel discussion, and then followed by a Q/A session interactive presentation. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

27


Session 7: Improving Agricultural Rainwater Management

Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 4:00– 5:30 p.m. Room: MC6-100 Session conveners: IJsbrand de Jong and Susanne Scheierling

Session Description

Worldwide, about 82% of cropland is rainfed. Especially in dry subhumid regions as well as in tropical arid and semiarid regions, water is often the key determinant for agricultural productivity. In areas where the expansion of irrigation is not feasible, improving rainwater management often becomes a key intervention for increasing yields and incomes. Even though a wide variety of measures for better management of rainwater are being used and promoted around the world, they are often not practiced on a large scale. The potential barriers to upscaling vary locally and nationally, and include knowledge and technological barriers, institutional and policy barriers, and economic and financial barriers. With climate change and rising food prices, it is becoming more urgent to address these barriers and investigate investment opportunities for improving rainwater management.

This session will showcase the various traditional and innovative measures for improving rainwater management; discuss the barriers to the wider adoption of measures; and present the latest thinking on overcoming the barriers. A focus will be on (i) the cost and benefits of different measures; (ii) their potential for risk reduction; (iii) the required policy and institutional arrangements, including capacity building; and (iv) lessons learned for scaling up measures for improving rainwater management.

The presentations of the session will also present examples of successful interventions in World Bank and other projects, including experiences from Southern Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa. Speakers


William Critchley, Coordinator, Natural Resource Management Unit, Center for International Cooperation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Agricultural Rainwater Management: Issues and Options Pieter Waalewijn, Irrigation Specialist, Water Resource Management Unit, Africa

Region, World Bank Small Scale Water Resources Development in Southern Africa: An Initiative Taking

Shape Norman Piccioni, Lead Rural Development Specialist, and Ranjan Samantaray, Senior

Natural Resources Management Specialist; Agriculture and Rural Development Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank

Improving Watershed Management Practices: Experience from Northern India Luis Constantino, Sector Manager / Naji Abu-Hatim, Sr. Rural Development

Specialist; Sustainable Development, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank Challenges of Maintaining the Terraces in the Highlands of Yemen

28

Format Presentations followed by Q/A.


29


Session 8: Small Towns WSS: the Scale Issue Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: MC13-121 Session conveners: Nick Pilgrim and Mathewos Woldu Session Description

This session explores the issue of small towns WSS and scaling up.

For every large town (50,000 – 200,000 people) there are 10 small and medium-sized ones (2,000 – 50,000 people). Despite their social, economic and demographic importance in providing colleges and schools, hospitals and markets for rural areas, and as the location of increasing numbers of industrial estates, these smaller towns have been the most neglected in terms of their water supply and sanitation services. The problems of implementing reforms are exacerbated on account of the huge numbers of small towns, their unpredictable spatial and population growth, and their lack of resources and professional staff.

The target audience for this session is government planners, World Bank task managers, and sector practitioners to help them prepare and implement programmes that support many small towns improve their water supply and sanitation services.

Topics will include:

Introduction to ‘the towns challenge’, the session objectives and agenda, and brief discussion showing the linkages between ‘management models / legal framework’, ‘business planning’, ‘service agreements’ and higher level ‘planning coordination’ to reach scale

Performance benchmarking data for four common management models found in small towns, and lessons regarding operational and institutional factors impacting performance, including ‘aggregation’ and ‘professional support’ (helpdesk/training/technical support)

The role of ‘service agreements or operator contracts’ with respect to business planning, immediate service improvements, and ongoing efficiency improvements and expansion

The role of ‘planning coordination to achieve scale’ with respect to community consultations on service standards and tariffs, reviewing proposals including investment requirements and the need for subsidies, and monitoring of implementation and performance Speakers

Chair: Bill Kingdom, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, Urban, Water and Sanitation, South Asia Region, World Bank

Speakers:

Cesar Enriquez Yniguez. Consultant, WSP-SA. Country: Philippines. Presentation: Performance benchmarking

Mr. R.K. Van-Ess, Director, Technical Services, Community Water and Sanitation Agency, Ghana. Presentation: Service agreements

Mr. Peter Lubambo, Director for Housing and Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Local Government and Housing, Zambia. Presentation: Regulation / planning coordination

30

Panelists: Bill Kingdom, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Bob Roche, former Lead Sanitary Specialist, Urban/Water, Africa Region, World Bank Ato Brown, Sector Leader, Urban/Water, Africa Region, World Bank Mr. A K Mehta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India

Format

Format will be presentations with Q&A and interactive panel/participant discussion with Q&A All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

31


Session 9: Operational Implications of Climate Change: the Africa Perspective Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Room: JB1-080 Session convener: Amal Talbi-Jordan Session Description

Africa, home to a third of the world’s poor earning less than $1 a day, is a region gearing up for massive infrastructure investments to spur economic growth and alleviate poverty. Recent reports (such as from IPCC and Stern) show Africa may be particularly vulnerable to climate change. The challenge is to develop approaches to effectively address climate risks in operations (e.g. storage, hydropower, agriculture) and institutional capacity-building. What makes this challenge difficult to address is the uncertainty and complexity in projecting scenarios of the future and their implications and contrasting it with business-as-usual. For example, how would infrastructure be designed and operated differently under future climate scenarios as compared to past variability. What different things need to be done and what things need to be done differently?

The objective of this session is to help Bank staff and clients develop operational perspectives on mainstreaming climate risks in water-related investment operations. This will build upon ongoing work in the Africa Region of the World Bank.

The session will start with four presentations and will conclude with a panel discussion. The first presentation will focus on providing an overview of climate and water in Africa and will also demonstrate interactive visualizations of such information. The second presentation will focus on methodologies to reflect climate risks in hydropower development. The third presentation will illustrate how climate change ranks with other uncertainty parameters in analyzing an illustrative large multipurpose storage on the Blue Nile in a basin systems context.. The last presentation will brainstorm on the road ahead in improving mainstreaming of climate risks into the evolving Africa portfolio. Finally, a panel will comment on the presentations before opening up to general discussion. Speakers

Co-Chairs: Ashok Subramanian, Sector Manager, AFTWR, World Bank and Barbara Miller, Lead Water Resources Management Specialist, AFTWR, World Bank

Speakers: Harshadeep Nagaraja Rao, Sr. Environmental Specialist, SASDI, World Bank and

Michael Westphal, Climate Specialist, AFTWR, World Bank. Presentation: Overview of Climate and Water in Africa

Ken Strzepek, Water Resources Engineer& Economist, University of Colorado and Anthony Powell, Water Resources Specialist, AFTWR, World Bank. Presentation: Climate risks in hydropower planning

Marc Jeuland, Water Economist, University of North Carolina. Presentation: Climate change implications for Blue Nile Storage Infrastructure

32

Walter Garvey, Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank. Presentation: Reflecting Climate Risks in Operations

Panelists: Aziz Bouzaher, Lead Environmental Specialist, Environment & Natural Resources

Management, Africa Region, World Bank Xiaodong Wang, Sr. Energy Specialist, World Development Report (DECWD), World

Bank Winston Yu, Water Resources Specialist, Agriculture & Rural Development, South Asia

Region, World Bank

Format There will be four presentations (15 minutes including burning clarifications), followed by a panel discussion of 15 minutes and a general discussion of 15 minutes. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

33


Session 10: Urban Wastewater Reuse in Agriculture Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Room: MC6-100 Session conveners: Susanne Scheierling and Pete Kolsky Session Description

With high rates of urbanization in the developing world, urban agriculture is expanding rapidly. Surveys of African cities, for example, suggest involvement of 25-80% of urban households, satisfying 25-100% of vegetable and protein demand. While urban agriculture contributes to food security and income and employment generation, the common practice of using wastewater for irrigation creates potentially significant environmental and public health risks. In many low-income countries agricultural reuse of wastewater is informal and unregulated, and increasingly difficult to deny or effectively ban. This practice has a huge impact on the urban poor. What should be the World Bank's role?

This session intends to raise awareness of the growing urban wastewater reuse for agriculture in cities and urban regions, to outline conventional and novel approaches to improve the safety of this practice, and to stimulate thought on the potential role of the World Bank in addressing this practice.

The presentations of the session will discuss the evolution of informal and formal reuse of wastewater in urban agriculture in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Key topics that will be addressed are: (i) new insights into the quantitative assessment of health risks in wastewater irrigation; (ii) the experience with different measures for risk reduction, and recent attempts to evaluate their relative cost-effectiveness; and (iii) the need to view the phenomenon of urban wastewater reuse in agriculture in the larger context of urbanization trends, growing water scarcity, and the increasing significance of informal structures and new civil society forms of organization--in order to identify effective solutions. Speakers

Chair: Vijay Jagannathan, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

Julio Moscoso Cavallini, Adviser, Wastewater Reuse Management, Institute for the Promotion of Sustainable Development (IPES), Lima

Reuse of Wastewater in Urban Agriculture in Metropolitan Lima, Peru Duncan Mara, Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds

Health Risks in Urban Agriculture Using Wastewater or Partially Treated Wastewater for Crop Watering

Liqa Raschid-Sally, Senior Researcher, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), West Africa

Assessing Options for Reducing Health Risks in Irrigated Urban Farming: New Findings from Ghana

34

Menahem Libhaber, Lead Sanitary Engineer, Urban Unit, Sustainable Development Department, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank

Bank Perspective and Experience in Wastewater Reuse for Agriculture Format

Presentations, followed by Q/A. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

35


Session 11: Reforming Public Utilities: Instruments and Experiences Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: Preston Auditorium Session conveners: Meike van Ginneken and Carlos Velez Session Description

The objective of the session is to show recent advances in public utility management that are relevant for the majority of water utilities and TTLs that work with public utilities. The session deepens past Water Week sessions by zooming in on two specific topics: multiple ownership and performance agreements. Both of these topics are present in many Bank operations and have been mentioned in many forums, but knowledge exchange has been limited. The new GAC in Infrastructure advisory program (‘GAC squad’) offers an opportunity to provide support to task teams on these topics and build up our knowledge base.

Multiple ownership: Old and new utility corporations are typically in the hands of a sole owner and either subject to frequent changes in management, strategy and direction, or ultimately dependent on one actor that can easily bypass the corporate oversight board. Diversifying ownership can reduce the risks of management instability and capture. This can be done through the partial sale of the utility to private investors or, alternatively, by selling or donating part of the utility’s shares to investors, consumers, staff and managers. Alternatively, aggregation of utilities into larger geographical areas can introduce multiple minority owners. This session will include: (i) an example of partial sale of the utility to private investors from SABESP, the State Water and Sanitation Company of Sao Paulo, Brazil; and (ii) an example of multiple public ownership from EPM (Empresas Publicas de Medellin), the municipal public utility of Medellin, Colombia, which is the strategic and majority shareholder in smaller public utilities.

Performance agreements: Public utilities are often confronted with a range of objectives to consider—without clear guidance on how to weigh or trade off these objectives. Performance agreements can clarify the objectives for a public utility—and provide a relative weight for the stated objectives—between a government and a utility. Internal performance agreements – between different units in the utility or individual staff or managers can clarify accountabilities and also provide incentives for good performance. This session focuses on relationships, information sharing, and good (audited) data rather than enforceability. The national utility of Burkina Faso (ONEA) will present the role that annual financial and technical auditing of performance indicators helped to turn around the utility to become one of the best performing water utilities in the region. A presentation by the National Water and Sewage Corporation of Uganda will focus on the internal performance contracting with regional operating areas and individual staff using strong bonuses to drive performance. Speakers

Chair: Guang Zhe Chen, Sector Manager, LCR, World Bank

Speakers: Gesner Oliveira, President, Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de São Paulo

(SABESP) – Brazil Federico Restrepo, General Manager, Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) –

Colombia

36


Matar Fall, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, AFTU2 (presenting the experience of Office National de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement – ONEA in Burkina Faso)

Panelists: Meike van Ginneken, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor, World

Bank Carlos E. Velez, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, LCR, World Bank Neil Macleod, Managing Director, Water and Sanitation, South Africa Government (tbc)

Format The session will feature four traditional presentations, and two discussions (before and after break). We are prepping the speakers to (a) be focus very specifically at the topic at hand, and (b) to be short (15 min each). All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

37


Session 12: Panel: Where do we stand with the MDGs? Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Room: MC13-121 Session convener: Richard Pollard Session Description

Since 2000, governments world-wide, the donor community, and many NGOs have espoused achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and their related targets as the primary medium term objective for economic and social development. The related targets under each of the goals are considered to be measures of achievement of sustained poverty alleviation. This session will address questions such as:

• How far have we really come toward achieving the water and sanitation-related goal and targets?

• Are we really monitoring progress reliably and appropriately? • How do we balance the drive for numbers against the need for sustainable services? • How will we maintain political momentum after 2015, to reach the half who will still be

unserved after the MDGs are reached?

The session will take the form of an open, provocative discussion about our progress toward achieving the MDGs and their real relevance to achieving sustained economic and social development.

Speakers

Chair: Jon Lane, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

Panelists: Santha Sheela Nair, Secretary, Department of Drinking Water Supply, Government of

India Maurice Bernard, Manager, Water Division, Agence Française de Développement

(AFD) Henry Northover, Head of Policy, WaterAid Jaeyang So, Manager, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), World Bank Engr. Mohammed el-Alfi, Assistant Minister of Housing and Chief Regulator of

Egyptian water utilities, Government of Egypt

Format

The session will be in the form of an “open” panel discussion. The Chair will begin the session with a brief overview, and will then put questions to each of the panelists, and encourage audience participation in the dialogue. The final portion of the session will involve audience voting on key issues that arise from the debate (subject to the availability of electronic instant polling equipment). No formal presentations will be made during the session. However, some panelists may provide supporting publications that will be made available before and after the session. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

38


Session 13: Integrated Urban Water Management Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MC2-800 Session convener: Martin Gambrill Session Description

Water management is becoming an increasingly complex and difficult issue in cities throughout the world. The balancing of supply and demand for potable use and environmental ends, pollution and overuse of surface and ground waters, increasing flooding frequency and intensity, and urban and agricultural run-off, are among the challenges faced by urban areas worldwide. In rapidly urbanizing developing countries, these issues are exacerbated by the proliferation of informal urban and peri-urban settlements, a lack of efficient water supply and lagging wastewater collection and treatment, inadequate drainage provision, limited land-use planning and control, and generalized institutional weaknesses to tackle these problems in a systematic, integrated fashion.

Integrated urban water management can provide a framework in which an understanding of the interactions between the different aspects of the water cycle, and its inherent links to land-use patters, is established and priority areas of action are identified. The resulting interventions often need to be coordinated between different service providers and levels of government in large metropolitan areas.

This session is designed to discuss experiences in integrated urban water management from developing, transition and developed countries in order to understand the approaches adopted in the different contexts and draw preliminary lessons for Bank client countries. Speakers


Philippe Marin, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor, World Bank. Presentation: The Water Anchor’s new initiative on integrated urban water management

Alexi Boado, Watershed Ecologist, Versar Inc., USA. Presentation: An overview of Urban Watershed Management in the US.

Ricardo Toledo Silva, Deputy Secretary of State for Water and Energy, São Paulo State Government, Brazil. Presentation: Tackling urban water management in São Paulo State – experience from four decades of engagement, perspectives for the future

Monica Porto, Professor of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering, The University of São Paulo, Brazil. Presentation: An institutionalized approach to IUWM in Metropolitan São Paulo

39

Carlos Tucci, Consultant, Water Anchor, Energy, Transport and Water Department, World Bank. Presentation: Rapid scoping of IUWM issues in Jakarta – a preliminary diagnosis

Dr. Young-June, CHOI, Director, Chief Research Officer, Waterworks Research Institute, Seoul Metropolitan Government. Presentation: Clean-up of Seoul’s Han River

Richard Batiuk, Associate Director for Science, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Presentation: The Chesapeake Bay clean up program

Panelists: Adriana Damianova, Lead Environmental Specialist, Soc., Env. & Water Resources,

South Asia Region, World Bank Mario Suardi, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Urban Development Sector Unit

East Asia and the Pacific Region, World Bank Katelijn van den Berg, Senior Environmental Economist, Sustainable Development

Sector Unit, Europe and Central Asia Region, ECSSD, World Bank Martin Gambrill, Senior Water Engineer, Urban, Latin America and the Caribbean

Region, World Bank Format The session will involve traditional presentations followed by comments from a panel that includes Bank TTL/staff and other sector professionals from different regions as to the lessons the case studies bring to their regions, followed by a Q&A session to maximize audience engagement. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

40


Session 14: Hydropower - the Potential for Small Hydro Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Room: MC4-800 Session convener: Daryl Fields Session Description

In terms of both value and number of projects, run-of-river projects currently account for the largest portion of the World Bank portfolio. Within the context of the Bank’s initiative to scale- up hydropower, the objective of this session is to address the opportunities and challenges inherent in the evolving demand for small hydro infrastructure. While small run-of-river projects and rehabilitation projects (the latter will be discussed during Energy Week) are considered less risky because of perceived fewer environmental and social impacts, these type of projects also can be particularly vulnerable to other hydrological risks. The panel discussion will focus on methodologies developed for virtual hydropower prospecting for small hydro in Brazil; the social and environmental implications of small hydro development, and the potential for scaling up small-hydro investments. The session is timely in light of the World Bank’s scale-up in small hydro investments with increasing emphasis on local benefits of development; and benefit from the lessons learned. Speakers

Chair: Philippe Charles Benoit, Sector Manager, Energy, Latin America Region and the Caribbean, World Bank

Glenn Morgan, Lead Environmental Specialist, Environment, Latin America Region and the Caribbean, World Bank. Presentation: Environmental and Social Implications of Small Hydro Development

Doug Hall, Idaho National Labs. Presentation: Virtual Hydropower Prospecting: a Methodology for Water Energy Resource Planning and Development: Case Study-Brazil

Maximiliano Espinosa Valderrama, Government of Antioquia. Presentation: Small Hydro in Antioquia: A Great Opportunity for Economic Growth and a Strategy for Equitable Social Development

Daryl Fields, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Water Anchor, ETWWA, World Bank. Presentation: Scaling up hydropower investments

Format The session will follow a traditional presentation format, followed by a Q/A session, panel discussion. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately two weeks after the event.

41


Session 15: New Tool for Practitioners: Global Climate Change Projections of Hydrological Drivers Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: JB1-080 Session convener: Vahid Alavian Session Description

The World Bank’s Strategic Framework on Climate Change and development (SFCCD) recognizes water as a sector that will be heavily impacted by climate change. This is consistent with the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (2007) and other technical studies, which have concluded that “Observational records and climate projections provide abundant evidence that freshwater resources are vulnerable and have the potential to be strongly impacted by climate change, with wide ranging consequences on human societies and ecosystems.” Each Bank region is likely to face a unique set of water-related climate change challenges, deriving from such impacts as accelerated glacier melt, changes in precipitation, altered runoff and recharge patterns and rates, and increased extreme events (floods and droughts).

The design of interventions to improve the development and management of water resources and delivery systems will need to take such potential challenges fully into account. A necessary prerequisite to designing water investments that are resilient to climate change is an understanding of the impacts of climate change on hydrology. However, a uniform set of climate change and hydrologic projections at a scale appropriate for policy and investment decisions has until this point been lacking. The Water Anchor has recently commissioned a state-of-the-art study on ‘global climate change projections of hydrologic drivers’ to fill this gap. The first part of this session will present the methodology and the latest results of the study, which includes several emissions scenarios, multiple GCM runs, two time horizons (2030 and 2050), and projections for several hydrologic variables (runoff, climate moisture index, etc.) at a range of time scales (daily and monthly). The second part of this session will focus on how these projections can be used to inform policy and investment decisions, including a review of the exposure of the Bank’s water portfolio to climate change. Speakers

Chair: Vahid Alavian, Water Advisor, Water Anchor, Energy Transport and Water Department, World Bank

Kenneth Strzepek, Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado

Format Traditional presentation followed by Q&A. Presentations will be approximately 20 minutes, each followed by a 10 minute Q&A. The last 30 minutes will be a panel discussion on application of projections to specific investments. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

42


Session 16: Improving Water Efficiency in Agriculture

Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MC6-100 Session conveners: Julia Bucknall and Guy Alaerts

Session Description

As increased demand for food combines with climate change, it will become increasingly important to increase the productivity of water in irrigated agriculture. Yet achieving that in practice is remarkably difficult. Practitioners even have trouble determining what different disciplines actually mean by productivity. Successful increases in water productivity depend on a complex combination of factors ranging from operation of releases from dams, through improvements in trunk infrastructure and strong farmer organizations to manage water distribution, to the choices each farmer makes about crops, water management techniques and technology. In this session we will discuss the need for improved water productivity, outline the definitional difficulties and compare a number of cases that have successfully increased water productivity in different parts of the world.

Speakers

Chair: Mark Rosegrant, Division Director, Environment and Production Technology, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (TBC)

Part 1: Clarifying the challenges Mark Rosegrant (IFPRI). Presentation: How much of a challenge is it going to be to

keep the world better fed. Chris Perry, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID). Presentation:

Efficiency be damned: which crop are we talking about and which drop?

Part 2: Where has it worked and how? Field lessons from different social-economic and hydrological contexts

Liping Jiang, Sr. Irrigation Engineer, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank (TBC). Presentation: Using technology and outreach to improve productivity of conjunctive use: The Hai basin, China

Sanjay Pahuja, Sr. Water Resources Specialist, Soc., South Asia Region, World Bank. Presentation: Using “bottom-up” techniques to make irrigation from groundwater more sustainable: Andra Pradesh, India

Guy Alaerts, Lead Water Resources Specialist and Paulus Van Hofwegen, Consultant, East Asia and Pacific Region. Presentation: Irrigated agriculture in the poor but water-rich humid tropics: Indonesia.

Part 3: What does all this mean for the future of irrigation and rainfed agriculture? Panel discussion on the big picture strategic issues. Moderated by Mark Rosegrant

Format

Presentation plus discussion All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

43


Session 17: OBA in the water sector: Connecting the poor – What have we learned so far? Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MC13-121 Session convener: Catherine Russell Session Description

Output-based aid (OBA) was originally set up as a PPP mechanism, and the role of the private sector in formal water supply has been limited – especially after the retreat of international private water companies from developing countries over the last decade. However, since the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) was set up in 2003, there has been a concerted effort to test OBA approaches in the water sector, including with public providers. We now have a body of experience and some emerging lessons to share.

This session will give participants an overview of OBA experiences so far in the water sector and a chance to discuss the approach with people involved in designing and implementing OBA water projects in countries such as Cambodia, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda. The speakers will include WB and GPOBA task team leaders and counterparts from government and the private sector.

At the end of the session, participants will be able to state the main characteristics of OBA in the water sector, identify opportunities for using OBA approaches in water projects and some potential challenges, and know where to go for more resources. Speakers Chair: Luiz Claudio Martins Tavares, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, Urban/Water Anglophone Sector Unit, Sustainable Development Front Office, Africa Regional Office, World Bank

Alain Mathys, Manager, Access to Water, Suez Environment Christopher Azuba, Acting Assistant Commissioner (Water Authorities), Directorate of

Water Development, Ministry of Water and Environment of Uganda Cledan Mandri-Perrott, Senior Infrastructure Specialist, Finance, Economics, and

Urban Department, Sustainable Development Vice Presidency, World Bank Manuel Schiffler, Senior Economist, Urban Sector Unit, Sustainable Development

Department, Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Office, World Bank Pier Francesco Mantovani, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable

Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, World Bank Yogita Mumssen, Senior Infrastructure Economist, Finance, Economics, and Urban

Department, Sustainable Development Vice Presidency, World Bank

44

Format

The session will be in the form of an informal discussion similar to a “chat show.” The chair will introduce the session and initiate a dialogue, bringing in each speaker as appropriate to talk about their experience of OBA in the water sector, and opening up the session for audience questions. There will be no formal PPT presentations, but we may use some PPT slides to illustrate specific points or to show project photos. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

45


Session 18: Financing and Pricing of Water Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MC4-800 Session convener: Angela Marcarino Paris Session Description

The water sector as a whole is severely under-funded in many developing countries. This appears somewhat as a paradox, given the fact that the significant economic, social, environmental and public health benefits of investing in water and sanitation are well established. The debate about how to realize these benefits, increase investment flows and set the water sector on a sustainable financing course has been ongoing for some time.

In order to move forward, it is essential first to properly frame the debate. Loans and equity sources are just financial instruments which allow the cost of investment to be spread and repaid over a certain timeframe. Ultimately, there are only three sources of funds for financing water investments: tariffs which are paid by customers (i.e. the connected users), taxes which are paid by the broader population, and transfers from international aid. In practice, there is a wide discrepancy in the relative proportion of tariff, taxes or transfers (the “3 Ts”), even in countries which have successfully put in place a sustainable financing strategy for their water sector.

In the context of developing countries, finding the right mix of the 3 Ts has proved elusive, with many difficult issues being raised about the pricing of water, and the appropriate amount of budget transfer from governments to service providers. A study to be soon published by OECD entitled “Financing and pricing water; the roles of government policies, the private sector and civil society”, provides a very useful background to set the stage and provide an appropriate framework for the debate. It includes a solid review of the investment programs for this sector in OECD countries, the various mixes of policies and regulations in place to support those investments, and the different 3Ts mixes chosen by different countries to fund the sector.

The session will include a short introduction, followed by a presentation of the OECD study framework and findings. This will be followed by an open discussion with the panelists and the audience. Speakers


Angela Marcarino Paris, Sr. Water Specialist, Water Anchor, ETWWA, World Bank

Peter Borkey, Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

46

Panelists: Sumter Lee Travers, Manager, Sub-National Finance Group, World Bank

Jonathan Halpern, Adviser, MIGA, World Bank

Monica Scatasta, Water Program Coordinator, Environment Directorate, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)


Format Presentation followed by panel discussion and Q&A All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

47


Session 19: Responding to Increased Scarcity: The Cases of Australia and Mexico Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Room: JB1-080 Session conveners: Walter Vergara and Diego Rodriguez Session Description

While the potential impacts of climate change are broad, some aspects of human society are more sensitive than others. Some of the adverse effects of climate change may fall disproportionately on poorer parts of the world where adaptation capacity is more limited. Changes in precipitation, combined with rising temperatures and reduced snow cover, will have impacts on water quality and quantity (water availability), requiring water managers to incorporate climate change in their planning and investment decisions. Observed global mean surface temperatures have risen by 0.74ºC ± 0.18ºC over the last hundred years. Decreased land precipitation and increased temperatures that enhance evapotranspiration and drying are important factors that have contributed to more regions experiencing droughts.

The Mediterranean region, the Sahel, southern Africa, and parts of southern Asia have become significantly drier. In addition, predictions identify these areas plus some in North America, particularly Mexico, and South America (North of Brazil and Andean Region) with increasing scarcity problems.

Increasing scarcity negatively affect the livelihoods of the poorest. Economic sectors which are projected to be most affected are agriculture (increased demand for irrigation), energy (reduced hydropower potential and cooling water availability), health (worsened water quality), recreation (water-linked tourism), fisheries and navigation. From the sustainable development perspective, various authors have posed that the top priority for adaptation in the water sector should be to reduce the vulnerabilities of people and societies to shifts in hydro-meteorological trends, increased climate variability, and extreme events.

The objective of this session is to depict the challenges and responses of two countries which are facing and will face scarcity problems. Speakers


Sergio Soto Priante, Deputy Director General, Sub Direction of Hydraulic Infrastructure for Agriculture, National Water Agency, Mexico

David Downie, General Manager, Department of Sustainability and the Environment, Government of Victoria, Australia

Format Traditional presentations (30 minutes each) followed by a Q&A session (30 minutes) All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

48


Session 20: Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Room: MC6-100 Session conveners: Raffaello Cervigni and Winston Yu Session Description

Through changes in water availability in space and time, the agriculture sector stands to be one of the most impacted sectors from future climate change (both in terms of long-term changes in means and increased variability i.e. extremes). This session will examine different methodological approaches (with broad application globally) to modeling the impacts of climate change on the agriculture sector, with a particular focus on the water and climate dimensions. Preliminary findings from two different on-going country studies – the arid and drought prone Morocco and the flood-driven Bangladesh – are presented for discussion and comparison. Both studies use a combination of linked hydrologic-climate, crop yield, and computable general equilibrium models to identify the primary impacts from climate change (physical production shocks and economic consequences) and potential options for adaptation. The objective of the session is to generate a discussion on these different methodologies (highlighting the hydrologic dimensions of these studies) and explore how this information can be used to generate policy prescriptions and feasible adaptation options for the agriculture sector. Speakers


Bangladesh Study o Winston Yu, Water Resources Specialist, SAR, World Bank (10 min overview) o Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist, NASA/Godard Institute for

Space Studies, Columbia University (20 min) Morocco Study

o Raffaello Cervigni, Senior Natural Resources Economist, MENA, World Bank (15 min)

o Dominique Van Der Mensbrugghe, Lead Economist, DEC, World Bank (15 min)

Format

The session will consist of a brief introduction and overview of each study (~10 min) followed by a more in depth presentation on specific methodology and modeling frameworks used. Approximately 30 minutes in total will be devoted to each case study followed by 30 min of discussion.


49


Session 21: Improving Operational Efficiency of WSS Utilities: Sharing some Experiences from the Field Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: Preston Auditorium Session conveners: Philippe Marin and Bill Kingdom Session Description

This session considers a challenge facing all water utilities around the world – how to improve operational performance. It proposes to share experiences about how specific urban water and sanitation utilities have succeeded in improving service quality and operational efficiency. It focuses on how progress has been achieved in practice – what actions were carried out, timetable and costs – rather than the institutional arrangements that were put in place. It is organized as part of a growing partnership between the WB Water Anchor and the International Water Association.

The session will open with an overview of the work of the IWA specialist group on Efficient Operation and Management of Urban Water Systems. This will include briefing the audience on tools available to help practitioners.

A series of practical examples from around the world, where companies have been able to improve performance will be presented. This will include a diversity of cases, focusing either on energy efficiency improvements, reducing non revenue water, and reducing intermittent service, and all leading to improved service delivery and lower costs. As will be seen, some have used the private sector to help make the change whilst others have been achieved by utilities sunder public management. But in all cases, the vehicles for improvement have included technical choices, improved management actions, and better incentives, resulting in tangible benefits for the concerned populations. Speakers

Chair: Paul Reiter, Executive Director, International Water Association (IWA)

Paul Reiter, Executive Director, IWA. Presentation: IWA working groups on operational efficiency

Roland Liemberger, Regional Director, Asia, Miya Group. Presentation: Performance Based service contracts for reducing Non-Revenue Water

Mark Husmann, President, Pöyry Environment GmbH. Presentation: Improving energy efficiency in waste water treatment: what emerging countries can learn from experiences in the developed world

Jean Marc Jahn, General Manager, SEAAL Suez. Presentation: Moving from acute rationing to 24/7 service in just three years in Algiers, Algeria

Patrice Fonlladosa, Executive VP Africa, Middle East and India, VEOLIA & Oscar Alvarado, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, Urban, Water and Sanitation, South Asia

50

Region, World Bank. Presentation: Introducing 24/7 water supply in Karnataka State, India.

Eduardo Ibañez, Director of Institutional Development, National Water Agency of Mexico (Conagua). Presentation: Turning around water utilities in Mexico: the cases of Puerto Vallarta & San Luis Potosi

Siemen Veenstra, Project Director, Vitens-Evides Int’l. Presentation: Improving service quality and operational efficiencies in secondary cities in Mozambique

Vasile Ciomos, Executive Director of the Romanian water association & Calin Neamtu, Technical Director Compania de Apa Somes. Presentation: the case of the Cluj-Salaj water and sanitation utility in Romania

Panelists: Bill Kingdom, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, South Asia region (SASDU),

World Bank Philippe Marin, Sr. Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor (ETWWA), World

Bank Gustavo Saltiel, Sector Leader (Mexico), Latin America Region (LCSSD), World Bank Michael Webster, Sr. Water and Sanitation Specialist, ECA region (ECSSD), World

Bank Format The session is planned to impart a number of valuable experiences through rapid series of presentations, from which will flow discussion between audience and panelists on applicability of the approaches to different situations around the world. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

51


Session 22: Scaling Up Hygiene and Basic Sanitation Effectively and Sustainably: Lessons from the Field Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: MC13-121 Session conveners: Eddy Perez and Pete Kolsky Session Description

The purpose of this 3 hour session is to share emerging global approaches from the experience of the World Bank, WSP and other partners in hygiene and basic sanitation. These include efforts toward effective scale up hygiene interventions such as handwashing with soap and expansion of rural sanitation through community led total sanitation and sanitation marketing.

Bank staff and Government partners increasingly recognize the need for hygiene and sanitation interventions. While there have been examples of small scale “islands of success”, these have proven difficult to scale up; the lack of successful large scale interventions has been a real constraint even when political will is present.

In recent years, however, promising efforts to design and develop large scale hygiene and sanitation programs have emerged. This session will focus on critical components of an enabling environment needed to scale up interventions. World Bank, WSP and clients will share experiences from Peru, Tanzania, Senegal, Uganda, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Vietnam.

Each presentation will provide a quick overview of the overall program and then highlight actual experiences, results and lessons learned with key components of an enabling environment intervention. These key components include such factors as:

• Creation of long term governmental financing mechanisms, • Reform of national WSS and Hygiene policies, • Development of national implementation strategies including clarifying institutional roles and

responsibilities, • Use of effective methodologies and approaches for large scale hygiene behavior change (e.g.

social marketing and the use of mass media), • Enhancement of capacities of local governments, • Partnership with the domestic private sector, • Integration of hygiene into national WSS SWAPs and budget support, • Integration of hygiene into large scale WB financed rural WSS projects, monitoring and

evaluation, etc.

Presenters will focus on results to date and lessons learned about what worked and what needs to be improved. The 3 hour session will be designed to encourage audience interaction and cross global comparison of experiences. Speakers

Chair: Eustache Ouayoro, Sector Manager, Urban/Water Unit, Africa Region, World Bank.

Rocio Florez Peschiera, Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program Latin America Region, World Bank

Malva Baskovich, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, Latin America Region, World Bank

52

Belete Muluneh, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program, Africa Region, World Bank

Asrat Genet, Head, Regional Health Bureau, Amhara Region, Ethiopia Mohammad Farhanullah Sami, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and

Sanitation Program, South Asia Region, World Bank Poonam Pillai, Senior Environmental Specialist, Environment Unit, Sustainable

Development Network, World Bank Sophie Tremolet, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank Abdulrazak Badru, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, Africa Region, World

Bank Seydou Koita, Consultant, Water and Sanitation Program, Africa Region, World Bank

Format This session will consist of six brief presentations, each followed by questions and answers. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

53


Session 23: Sustainable groundwater use – within our reach? Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Room: MC2-800 Session convener: Catherine Tovey Session Description

Many major developing countries in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are critically dependent on groundwater for irrigation and drinking water purposes. In a number of densely populated rural and urban areas, groundwater over-exploitation is already threatening people’s livelihoods and water supplies. Yet, groundwater over-exploitation continues to be largely ignored by policy-makers, or has often led to inappropriately mounted efforts which have produced disappointing results. Unsurprisingly, effectively monitoring and enforcing the usage of an invisible resource often involving millions of users is an administratively and politically daunting task.

This session will draw from recent international experience which suggests that high level reform is not necessarily the best entry-point. Rather, the speakers will argue that effective solutions can be identified by focusing on the local hydrogeology and resource use patterns in order to design an appropriate mix of interventions based around participatory hydrological monitoring, technocratic interventions and/or targeted regulation. The relevance and feasibility of this pragmatic framework will be discussed and challenged by a panel drawing on empirical evidence from India, Mexico, China and the Middle East. Speakers

Chair: Karin Kemper, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development Department, South Asia Region, World Bank

Stephen Foster, Director, Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GWMATE) Hector Garduño, Consultant, Groundwater Management Advisory Team (GWMATE)

Panelists:

Vijay Jagannathan, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development Department, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank

Doug Olson, Lead Water Resources Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank

Sanjay Pahuja, Senior Water Resources Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, South Asia Region, World Bank

Format The session will include a traditional presentation (30 min), followed by a panel discussion (15 min), and then a Q&A (35 min). All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

54


Session 24: Using Public Expenditure Reviews (PERs) Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Room: MC4-800 Session convener: Caroline van den Berg Session Description

Much attention has been given to increase resources to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, but the size of the required investments can be substantially reduced if the efficacy, efficiency and quality of public expenditures in the water and sanitation (WSS) sector can be increased. Poor targeting of public expenditure is another major concern that may affect the efficiency of public expenditure programs in the WSS sector, and especially affect the access for the poor to improved WSS services. An important element in addressing this challenge is scaling-up analytical work relating to fiscal policy and public finance more generally for water related infrastructure.

This session will explore the experience of teams in carrying out public expenditure reviews and similar broad gauged public finance Economic and Sector Work (ESW) in the water sector. Its main objective is to inform about how public expenditure reviews can help us to improve the quality and efficiency of the country’s investment programs and what factors are impeding efficiency and equity of such investments. It will use examples of the regional level Africa Infrastructure Initiative, Tanzania, Benin and 10 states in India to discuss the substance of such public expenditure reviews, the processes used to conduct PERs, some major results that have come out of such analyses, and the short-and medium-term impact of such analyses. Speakers


Cecilia Briceno-Garmendia, Senior Infrastructure Economist, Sustainable Development Office, Africa Region, World Bank

Caroline van den Berg, Senior Economist, Water Anchor, Energy, Transport and Water Department, World Bank

Smita Misra, Senior Economist, Urban Water and Sanitation Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank

Christophe Prevost, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program South East Asia

Format Presentation with Questions and Answers All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

55


Session 25: Disaster in the Melting: the implications of rapid warming in mountain ecosystems Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: JB1-080 Session conveners: Walter Vergara and Diego Rodriguez Session Description

Climate change is already reshaping the face of the globe. Temperatures are slowly but steadily rising, causing a parallel rise in sea level. The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report states that there has been a linear warming trend over the 50 years from 1956 to 2005 of 0.13 °C per decade, and global average sea level rose at an average rate of about 3.1mm per year from 1993 to 2003.

The objective of the session is to present case studies depicting the impacts of climate change in high mountain water supply systems, glaciers and paramos. The Bank is assisting countries in the northern Andes to better understand the process and implication of rapid climate change in mountain habitats. The first presentation will illustrate two adaptation projects already approved by the Board (Regional Andes: Adaptation to Rapid Glacier Retreat in the Tropical Andes and Colombia: Integrated National Adaptation Project) fund the design and implementation of responses; technical assistance, and monitoring of climate changes. The presentation will summarize these efforts and what has been learned so far. The second presentation will focus on describing the unique features of the Himalayan Glaciers and their complex relationship to climate. This presentation will be based on recent analytical work being done to examine the contribution of glacier melt to basin streamflows and analyze how climate change may impact these streamflows. The presentation will describe emerging outputs and compare with the context of popular media reporting on the significance of glacier melting in the local and regional context. Speakers


Walter Vergara, Lead Chemical Engineer, Environment, Latin America Region, World Bank and Daniel Ruiz, Engineer, Escuela de Ingenieria de Antioquia, Colombia. Presentation: Climate Change Impacts on the Water Regulation of Paramo and Glacier Systems in the Andes

Donald L. Alford, Water Resources Specialist, Soc., Env. & Water Resources, South Asia Region, World Bank and Richard Armstrong, Glaciologist, University of Colorado. Presentation: The Case of the Himalayan Glaciers

Format

Traditional presentations followed by a Q&A session All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

56


Session 26: Modeling Tools for Agricultural Water Management Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: MC6-100 Session conveners: Susanne Scheierling, Erick Fernandes, and Benedicte Augeard Session Description

Because the complex nature of many water resources problems requires the integration of different aspects into a coherent analytical framework, a variety of approaches for integrated modeling has been explored in the past few decades. In the area of agricultural water management, integrated models often link hydrologic, agronomic and economic models--and combine simulation and optimization with different levels of complexity--, to investigate the impacts of alternative policy measures for water management.

The objective is to provide an overview of recent modeling approaches that integrate hydrologic, agronomic and economic aspects into an analytical framework, to illustrate application of such modeling tools for investigating the impact of alternative water management policies and to discuss possible strengths and limitations of a wider use of integrated modeling in operational work.

The session will start with an overview of the various modeling approaches linking hydrologic and agronomic aspects with economic considerations. This will be followed by three presentations illustrating major types of linked models, with different levels of detail with regard to the hydrologic, agronomic and economic components. Model applications are presented for both developed and developing countries to assess the impact of policy measures such as improvement of water allocation within agriculture and between sectors (including environmental flows), introduction of water markets, changes in water price, adjustments to drought, and adaptations to climate change. Speakers

Chair: Grant Milne, Senior Natural Resources Management. Specialist, Agriculture & Rural Development Unit, South Asia Region, World Bank

Susanne Scheierling, Senior Irrigation Water Economist, Water Anchor, Energy, Water and Transport Department, World Bank

Modeling Approaches Incorporating Hydrologic, Agronomic and Economic Aspects Raghavan Srinivasan, Professor and Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Texas

AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University / Bruce McCarl, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University

Linking Biophysical and Economic Models for Impact Assessments Franck Ward, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agricultural

Business, New Mexico State University Policy Insights from River Basin Optimization Models

Terry L. Roe, Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota Water Policy Assessment in a General Equilibrium Setting

57

Format Presentations followed by Q/A. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

58


Session 27: Wastewater Treatment and Carbon Footprint Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room: MC2-800 Session convener: Menahem Libhaber Session Description

Wastewater is a natural by product of human existence and its treatment is essential to preserve pubic health and avoid environmental degradation. Wastewater treatment is widespread in developed countries and still limited in developing countries, but as a whole, it is a significantly spread worldwide activity. The impact of wastewater treatment on global warming will be discusses in the first presentation of this session.

As a result of the water sector institutional problems and financing restrictions, in most developing countries the percentage of wastewater that undergoes any type of treatment is low, usually less than 10%. Population growth forecasts indicate that most of the world’s growth will take place in developing countries. This will further reduce the perspectives of expanding the coverage of wastewater treatment in these countries, unless innovative affordable wastewater treatment technologies will be made available. The key to expanding wastewater treatment in developing countries is the use of appropriate technologies based on simple processes which are less costly than conventional processes in terms of investment as well as operation and maintenance, simple to operate, and have the capacity of yielding any required effluent quality. A series of appropriate treatment technologies which are recommended for use in developing countries, and which can be also used in industrialized countries, will be presented and discussed in the second presentation.

The use of anaerobic treatment process, which results in emission of Green House Gases (GHG), may, surprisingly, present opportunities to stimulate wastewater treatment in developing countries. Capturing and combusting or using any CH4 produced will prevent GHG emission. Selling such emission reductions can help projects become more financially viable by adding an additional revenue stream in hard currency – mitigating climate change while contributing to sustainable development. An example of such wastewater treatment project in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, implemented under the World Bank IDA Urban Infrastructure Project will be presented in the third presentation of the session.

The objectives of the session are to: (i) provide information on the impact of wastewater treatment on global warming; (ii) provide information on innovative appropriate wastewater treatment technologies for developing countries; and (iii) present an example of a Carbon Financing project based on an innovative wastewater treatment process, all executed under a World Bank financed project in Bolivia. Speakers

Chair: Charles W. Peterson, Sr. Environmental Specialist, ENVCF, World Bank

Panelist: Pier Mantovani, Lead Water and Sanitation Specialist, MNSSD, World Bank

59

Presenters:

Alvaro Orozco, Professor, Los Andes University, Bogota, Colombia (retired), Consulting Engineer. Presentation: The impact of wastewater treatment on Global Warming (20 minutes)

Menahem Libhaber, Lead Sanitary Engineer, Urban and Water Unit, Latin America Region, World Bank. Presentation: Appropriate Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Effluent Reuse for Irrigation (20 minutes)

Fernando Yavari, Director of Projects and Works, SAGUAPAC Water and Sanitation Utility, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Presentation: Carbon Financing Coupled with an Innovative Lagoons Wastewater Treatment System in Santa Cruz, Bolivia (15 minutes)

Format Traditional Presentations followed by 10 minutes Q/A after each presentation All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

60


Session 28: Environment in High Risk Water Resources Infrastructure Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Room: MC4-800 Session convener: Rafik Hirji Session Description

This session will focus on the challenges associated with the integration of the environment in high risk water infrastructure projects and opportunities for mainstreaming the environment in water resources policy, planning, and investments. Environmental issues in the water sector, including upstream and downstream impacts of dams will be highlighted. Recently developed tools and lessons learned from sector analysis on (a) Strategic Environmental Assessments and water resources and (b) environmental flows will be shared. A new technical guidance note on the integration of environmental flows in hydropower planning, design and operations will be presented; and preliminary findings from an ongoing study on climate change adaptation and freshwater ecosystems will be discussed. Opportunities provided by the new Water Partnership Program Trust Fund for environmental services for supporting high risk water infrastructure projects will be explored. This jointly organized session by ETWWA and ENV is intended for the Bank’s regional safeguard coordinators, environmental and water resources specialists and team leaders working on high risk hydraulic infrastructure projects and water sector programs. Speakers

Chair: Michelle de Nevers, Senior Manager, Environment Department, World Bank

Rafik Hirji, Senior Water Resources Specialist, ETWWA, World Bank Gregory Thomas, President, Natural Heritage Institute, San Francisco, California John Matthews, Freshwater Climate Change Specialist, WWF Climate Adaptation

Center, Oregon Panelists:

Stephen Lintner, Sr. Adviser, Quality Assurance & Compliance, World Bank Agi Kiss, Regional Environmental and Safeguards Advisor, Europe and Central Asia

Region, World Bank (tbc) Greg Browder, Sr. Water Resources Spec., Urban, Latin America and the Caribbean

Region, World Bank Format

The session will include 3 presentations, a panel discussion and Q&A. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

61


Session 29: Innovative Knowledge Dissemination in the Water Sector Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: JB1-080 Session convener: Aldo Baietti Session Description

This session will bring together examples of knowledge management and sharing efforts currently being developed for the water sector by the Bank. The World Bank Institute’s (WBI) Water Program will summarize learning and knowledge products that it is developing on emerging topics in the water sector. Specifically, it will showcase several innovative learning tools, including multimedia presentations, interactive role play, game simulation, video interviews, as well as learning toolkits and its core learning programs on selected water topics. Participants will be asked can provide feedback as well as identify additional needs or demands of their clients and ways in which these tools can be better utilized in their current work.

The second part of this session will highlight tools designed in the past several years to enhance knowledge exchange within the Bank’s water family and with water professional in governments and partner institutions, with a specific look into the results of these efforts, lessons learned, and how these knowledge services can help staff in their daily work.

The third and final session will feature the Wikipedia-World Bank Water Pilot Project, as an example of how the World Bank can facilitate global knowledge sharing. The project seeks to provide easily accessible information to the public through country overviews posted on Wikipedia. Information posted includes responsibilities of key institutions in the sector; a brief institutional history of the sector; a summary of recent developments; data on access and quality of service; tariffs, affordability and cost recovery; investment and financing; external assistance; and useful external links. The session will introduce participants to this innovative project and obtain feedback from participants to further improve and develop it. Speakers

Chair: Konrad von Ritter, Sector Manager, Sustainable Development Division, World Bank Institute. Introduction of Session – Overview of knowledge management and knowledge tools on water and review of agenda.

Part I: Knowledge products for capacity building in the water sector

Aldo Baietti, Water Program Leader and Lead Specialist, World Bank Institute. Presentation: WBI’s Core Learning Program on Water. Three new courses on: Agricultural Water Management, Reform of Water Utilities and the Political Economy of Water Management.

Mei Xie, Senior Water Resources Specialist, World Bank Institute. Presentation: Experience the Impact of Water Decisions in Basin Management – An Interactive Tool for Training: Basin IT (WBI’s new simulation game on the impact of water basin decision among its users).

62

Alyson Kleine, Operations Analyst, World Bank Institute. Presentation: Using multimedia tools to enhance learning impact (an example of “Irrigation reform in Mexico” a multimedia approach).

Mei Xie, WBI. Presentation: Knowledge dissemination of emerging good practices – (Highlights from the Multimedia Toolkit on “Producing More Crops with Less Input – SRI – a new way of cultivating rice”).

Aldo Baietti, WBI. Presentation: Improving Learning through Interactive “Role Play” and Other Tools (examples of “role plays” for irrigation PPPs, virtual water, water basin management; examples of films and video interviews).

Discussion/Q&A Part II: Optimizing the World Bank’s operational know-how and experience

Meike van Ginneken, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water Anchor, World Bank. Presentation: Optimizing the World Bank’s operational know-how and experience (highlights of World Bank tools to enhance knowledge exchange within the Bank’s water family and with water professional in governments and partner institutions, and a discussion on how these knowledge services can help staff in their daily work)

Discussion/Q&A

Part III: Global knowledge sharing: The Wikipedia-World Bank Water Pilot Project Manuel Schiffler, Senior Economist, Latin America Region, World Bank,

Rita Cestti, Senior Rural Development Specialist, Latin America Region, World Bank, Ana Nunez Sanchez, Extended Term Consultant, Latin America Region, World Bank

o Initial Quiz with Audience o Introduction of the Pilot Project (purpose, how it was created, content,

challenges encountered and prospects) o Round Table with directors, managers and task managers from various

regions, including both water sector professionals and knowledge management professionals

Wrap-Up – closing words, final comments Format

Interactive session divided into 3 parts. Presentations will be followed by discussion and Q&A All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

63


Session 30: PPPs for Irrigation: New Perspectives Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Room: MC6-100 Session convener: Manuel Contijoch Session Description

Irrigated agriculture is expected to take an important role as a mean of addressing the incremental quantities of foods, agricultural inputs, and bioenergy stemming from ongoing population growth.

According to global projections, to address population growth, which is expected to reach 8.0 billion people around the year 2025, 80 percent of the incremental supply of foods must be produced through the use of efficient irrigation techniques. However, water availability for agriculture is increasingly constrained.

In addition, investments to develop new projects and to rehabilitate already existing irrigation infrastructure have historically relied on public financing which has resulted in a significant fiscal burden on national governments. The same is true for the operation and maintenance of the existing irrigation infrastructure which have always suffered from inconsistencies in governmental irrigation policies and budget constraints. Moreover, in the last ten years most of irrigation development was based on groundwater mining of sensitive aquifers, based mainly in private investments done by millions of farmers.

Due to reduced funds, several governments are becoming increasingly interested in private sector involvement to raise the capital needed to meet growth objectives. This alternative has moved the public sector to reform irrigation and investment policies to facilitate private investments in this sector. Several attempts have been made with mixed results.

This global scenario is in line with the changing context in the irrigation sector which has been continually focusing on the decentralization of responsibilities, empowerment of farmers and local stakeholders, and market-driven growth. How to align and ramp up the benefits of this already ongoing collaboration of the public and private sectors remains the challenge for irrigation. In this context, public–private partnerships (PPPs) represent a powerful instrument of cooperation between the Public Authority and the private sector with the aim of developing irrigation. PPPs represent a promising and efficient alternative for the financing and development of public irrigation Projects. Speakers

Co-Chairs: Dr. Fernando Gonzalez V / Laura Tlaiye Sector Manager (LCSEN)

Panelists: Javier Zuleta, IJsbrand de Jong and Joop Stoutjesdijk

Luis Rendón, General Director of Irrigation Districts and Units - CONAGUA, Mexico; Pedro Guerrero, Coordinador Nacional de Formalizacion de Derechos de Agua

MINIFAL. Peru. Anand Hemnani: Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of CG/LA

Infrastructure; Jennifer Sara, SD Sector Leader for Brazil, World Bank

64

Clementino Coelho, Director of Infrastructure Development, CODEVASF, Brazil Format 1) Overview: Manuel Contijoch (5 min); 2) Lessons from the Infrastructure and Leadership Forum: Anand Hemnani (10min); 3) PPP’s Peru and Water Rights: Marie-Laure Lajeunie and Pedro Guerrero (15min); 4) Participation of WUAs in the Modernization of Irrigation Systems - Mexican Experience: Luis Rendon (CONAGUA) (15 min); 5) Brazil Framework for Irrigation Development : Jennifer Sara (5 min); 6) Brazil – PPP Irrigation Projects - Pontal, Nilo and Baixio de Irece: Clementino Coelho (15min); 7) Moderated Q&A/discussion session with panel with initially pre defined topics to be discussed. The chair of the session will put up a slide with the issues to be discussed and request feed back from participants. The session will then open for additional topics for discussion (25 min); All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

65


Session 31: Rural WSS Providers: Local PPPs Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Room: Preston Auditorium Session conveners: Jan Drozdz and Ella Lazarte Session Description

Rural areas receive little attention and the provision of water and sanitation services to these areas remains an enormous challenge. Government budgets are insufficient and community-based management of rural piped systems has its limits. Yet, consumers in these areas may be able to pay for the services if well designed and packaged. In the midst of the challenges posed by climate change, the food crisis, and the global economic crisis, the need for alternative management models that can deliver water at an affordable price and expand at a reasonable pace to meet the MDGs is even greater. This environment provides an opportunity for involvement of the domestic private sector. The session will present alternative management models involving the local private sector in rural areas and towns. Four cases will be presented from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Senegal, and Cameroon. Moreover, the presentations aim to highlight how domestic private operators innovate in terms of service delivery, pro-poor approach, billing, financing, and service expansion. The session intends to explore not just the success factors of this emerging trend but also the lessons learned and challenges that remain, particularly in terms of sustainability and scalability of such models. Speakers

Chair: Inger Andersen, Director, Sustainable Development Network, Africa Region, World Bank

Mussadiq Hussain, a private water operator from Balkasar, Pakistan M.A Matin, Director of the Rural Development Academy, Bangladesh Madio Fall, West and Central Africa Coordinator, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)-

Africa, World Bank and Babou Sarr, Director of Direction de l'Exploitation et de la Maintenance (DEM), Ministry of Rural Hydraulic, Senegal

Jan Drozdz, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Sustainable Development Network, Africa Region-Cameroon, World Bank

Panelists/Commentators: Chris Heymans, Acting Regional Team Leader, WSP-South Asia Wambui Gichuri, Regional Team Leader, WSP-Africa Maria Angelica Sotomayor, Senior Economist, Sustainable Development Department,

Latin America Region, World Bank Format Introduction by Chair with a brief presentation from different countries The session will be a Moderated Discussion with Q&A. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

66


Session 32: Access for the Urban Poor (1) Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Room: MC13-121 Session conveners: Martin Gambrill and Pete Kolsky Session Description

The urban poor around the world constitute the most pressing water supply and sanitation problems for a variety of reasons: high population densities in unplanned areas without service create ideal conditions for epidemics; the costs of service are often highest precisely where the need is greatest, and the ability to pay is lowest; and the population is often under-represented and poorly served by political systems.

This first session introduces new guidance documentation on improving water and sanitation access for the urban poor

(1) A manual of practice on the condominial experience of WSS from Brazil (serving some 5 million people in 200 cities and towns throughout the country).

(2) Guidance Notes on Services to the Poor developed by the Water and Sanitation Program, which were first focused on India, and are now undergoing global updating by the WSP Global Practice Team.

(3) Manual/TOR for undertaking participatory, integrated WSS engineering designs in peri-urban areas based on 15 years of experience with PROSANEAR working throughout Brazil with consulting firms and social outreach/mobilization groups Speakers


Sr José Carlos Melo, consultant and recognized leader in condominial approaches Geeta Sharma, communications officer, Water and Sanitation Program, New Delhi A representative of the Ministry of Cities, Brazil (TBC)

Panelists: John Briscoe, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,

Harvard University Duncan Mara, Professor of Civil Engineering, The University of Leeds Judy Baker, Lead Economist, Finance Economics & Urban Dept, World Bank

Format The session will follow traditional presentations followed by comments by two discussants and a Q/A session with the panel (consisting of the presenters and the discussants) to maximize audience engagement. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

67


Session 33: River Basin Management, from Planning to Implementation: Lessons Learned, Best Practices and Future Directions Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m. –12:30 p.m. Room: MC2-800 Session conveners: Ousmane Dione, David Meerbach, and Barbara Miller Session Description

Over the last few decades, River Basin Management has been high on the agenda of many regions and countries around the world. However, despite the wide range of models and attempts to address the holistic management of water resources, few methods have resulted in success. The underlying challenges in River Basin Management are encompassed within a geographical spectrum (local, national, international), institutional framework, associated legal and financial instruments and technical issues (planning, modeling, etc.). This session features cases from the South Marshes in Iraq, the Nile Basin, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Basin and the Senegal River Basins and all of which encompassing the above challenges and sets out specific recommendations for successful River Basin Management ______________________________________________________________________________

Chair: David Grey, Water Advisor, South Asia and Africa Region, World Bank

Part I (9:00 – 10:30 am) Integrated water resources management in the South Marshees, Iraq

Dr. Rashid Latif, Minister of Water Resources of Iraq; The Nile Basin Initiative: Building a Cooperative Future

Barbara Miller, Lead Water Resources Specialist and Nile Program Coordinator (AFR), World Bank

Water, Energy and the Aral Sea: Challenges for Integrated Water Management in the Amu and Syr Darya River Basins Christophe Bosch, Country Sector Coordinator (ECA), World Bank and Joop Stoutjesdijk, Lead Irrigation Engineer (SAR), World Bank

Part II (11:00 – 12:30 am)

From Shared Watercourse to Shared Challenges: 37 Years of Cooperation in Managing the Senegal River Basin Ousmane Dione, Lead Water Resources Specialist (SAR)

Panel Discussion:

Dr. Rashid Latif, Minister of Water Resources of Iraq Mohamed Saleem Ould Merzoug, High Commissioner, Senegal River Development Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, Minister of Water Resources, Egypt Ato Adugna Jabessa, State Minister of Water Resources, Ethiopia Mr. Jean-François Donzier, Manager, International Network of Basin Organizations Shelley Mc Millan, Water Resources Specialist (ECA) Winston Yu, Water Resources Specialist (SAR)

68

Marcus Wishart, Water Resources Specialist (AFR) Format The sessions will have a combination of presentations, panel discussions, and general discussions (Q&A). All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

69


Session 34: Economic analysis: why it matters Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MC4-800 Session conveners: Michael Webster and Lee Travers Session Description

The water sector (water supply, sanitation, irrigation, hydropower, water resources management) is important for economic growth and poverty reduction. Catastrophic hydrological events such as droughts and floods can have dramatic economic impacts with declines in annual GDP exceeding 10%. The economic cost of poor hygiene and sanitation can exceed 2% of GDP. Well designed investments in water infrastructure can provide access to water supply for agriculture, hydropower and domestic and industrial needs; mitigate the risks associated with rainfall variability; and provide both direct benefits (such as public health, time saving, power generation) and indirect benefits (such as the labor market and other multipliers to the local economy).

Economic analysis can be useful at the program and the project level. “Program economics” can determine the relative importance of the sector for the economy. Tools such as Public Expenditure Reviews can assess the level, composition and efficiency of spending in the sector, and have an impact on public policy decisions over optimal budget allocations among sectors. “Project economics” can determine the economic soundness of a project and inform technology choices.

Project economics used to be at the heart of the Bank’s project appraisal process. However, despite recent methodological advances in economic analysis (such as better determination of indirect benefits), the Bank seems to have fallen behind in both program and project economics. Many sector operations do not attempt serious economic analysis as part of project appraisal, and it is rare to find the water sector included in any of the core economic analytical work that impacts national investment allocation decisions.

This session asks the question: does economics matter? Does economic analysis actually impact investment decisions of the Bank or the Borrower? Should the Bank’s water practice be doing more or better economic analysis or is it no longer relevant? The session is divided into two parts: Session 1 will review the state of economic analysis in the Bank and showcase new analytical tools inside and outside the Bank in valuing health benefits, the economics of irrigation and water reuse. Session 2 will field a panel of experts from academia and within the Bank to debate whether in fact the Bank is falling behind in economic analysis, whether that matters, and propose the frontier for sector economics for the water practice. Speakers Session 1 (9:00 – 10:30 am): Economic analysis: methodologies and applications

Chair: Lee Travers, Manager, World Bank / International Finance Corporation Subnational Finance Group. Presentation: Economic analysis at the World Bank (20 minutes)

Dale Whittington, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Presentation: Valuing the health benefits of water supply and sanitation (20 minutes)

70

Chris Perry, Irrigation Economist, Former Deputy Director General of the International Water Management Institute. Presentation: Economics analysis of irrigation and drainage projects: Have we come full circle? (20 minutes)

Claire Kfouri, Water and Sanitation Specialist, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank. Presentation: Water Reuse Cost-Benefit Analysis Model -- Capabilities and Applications (20 minutes)

Break (10:30 – 11:00) Session 2 (11:00 – 12:30 pm): Panel discussion on the frontier of water sector economic analysis at the Bank

Chair: Claudia W. Sadoff, Lead Economist, South Asia Region, World Bank

John Briscoe, Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering, Harvard University

Danny Leipziger, Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank

Shantayanan Devarajan, Chief Economist, Africa Region, World Bank Dale Whittington, Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Format Presentations will focus on methodologies, applications and discussion of each of the tools. Each presentation will be limited to 15 minutes to allow 5 minutes Q&A. The panel discussion will start with introductory comments by each panelist and then open to the floor questions. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

71


Session 35: Adapting WSS Utilities to Climate Change Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MC6-100 Session conveners: Eric Dickson and Alexander Danilenko Session Description

The World Bank is taking a leadership role to develop practical tools and instruments for adaptation and mitigation against the effects of climate change. As part of this larger effort, a draft document (‘Water and Climate Change: Strategies for Water and Wastewater Services Providers’) has been prepared which begins to identify how water utilities can cope with the effects of climate change and its impact on municipal water services.

Increasing amounts of evidence indicate that the urban water supply sector will not only be affected by climate change, but that it will be the primary delivery system for many of its impacts. As sea levels rise and precipitation levels and distribution patterns change around the globe, municipal water supplies are likely to become increasingly affected by climate change. Water bodies will change in both quantity and quality, and water supply facilities and infrastructure face greater risks of damage caused by storms and floods. Climate change will therefore inevitably affect cost of water services and alter water supply operation, maintenance and development practices that have been the norm for decades. The increased costs associated with these factors will result in higher tariff levels and make water services less affordable for significant portions of the population in urban areas.

The stress of climatic variations from global warming is forcing governments, planners, and managers to re-examine their current planning processes and adapt their strategies to incorporate the potential effects of climate change into infrastructure design, operation and maintenance, service provision plans, and capital investment plans. Although water utilities will be uniquely affected by climate change, they are just beginning to assess the impact that climate change will have on water resources and urban water supply. Management practices that are based on historical climate data may no longer be applicable in a context in which climate change is altering precipitation patterns, the incidence of drought, ground and surface water availability, and other trends. In an environment of shifting climate trends and limited information, how should water utilities prepare for and cope with the effects of climate change?

The overarching objectives of the session are firstly to present a series of case studies that highlight the operational impacts of climate change related risks on water utilities. It will secondly highlight the findings of the World Bank sponsored international workshop on climate change and water utilities, that took place in Madrid in January 2009 and present the analysis of a questionnaire distributed to approximately 20 utilities. Discussion will then turn to examine the intricacies and challenges of implementing adaptation strategies, and assessing how the lessons learned can be applied to utilities in client countries. Presentations will be on key challenges facing operations of the utilities as a result of climate related impacts. The session will focus on the climatic issues that are influencing water service delivery in Rawalpindi (Pakistan), Dhaka (Bangladesh), and Sevilla (Spain) where evacuation of the city was considered due to extreme water shortages.

72

Specific consideration will be given to topics including: Temperature variation Change in precipitation patterns Ground Water Aquifer Depletion Bacterial Contamination - Ground and Surface Water Increased Turbidity Flooding and sea level rise Glacial melt Water scarcity Drought

Speakers


Alexander Danilenko, Sr. Water & Sanitation Specialist, World Bank Eric Dickson, Consultant, World Bank Islam Ul-Haque, Managing Director, Rawalpindi Water and Sanitation Agency

(Pakistan) Dr. Liakath Ali, Deputy Managing Director of Dhaka Water and Sanitation Agency

(Bangladesh) Modesta Maria Hoyuela Diaz, Technical Advisor, Seville Municipal Water Supply and

Sanitation Company (Spain)

Discussant: Jens Viking Berggren, Policy Specialist on Climate Change Adaptation, Swedish International Development Agency Format

Presentations followed by Q&A All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

73


Session 36: Rural WSS Providers: Community schemes Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: Preston Auditorium Session conveners: Tashi Tenzing and Miguel Vargas Session Description

The objective of this session is to share experiences in the delivery of sustainable rural water supply and sanitation services through integrated community-driven approaches. The focus will be on the institutional mechanisms that have allowed for sustainable and integrated approaches on rural service delivery. Two cases for water supply and one for sanitation will be presented to open the debate on the enabling institutional setup that is more conducive for successful programs and projects.

The session will draw on the experiences of two projects from the South Asia region – Sri Lanka and Nepal - that have long implementation record and well-documented results in delivering water supply and sanitation services. Common elements behind the success of these projects have included community ownership, management, and a multi-dimensional approach to sustainability via the development of strong institutions, improving health and hygiene knowledge and practices, and strategies encouraging flexible technical options and financial and environmental sustainability. While both use DRA/CDD type of approach putting the community in the driver’s seat, there are subtle differences in institutional models, particularly the involvement of local governments and how sanitation revolving funds are administered. It will be demonstrated how this type of approach has influenced the sector in their respective countries and have contributed to the MDGs for both water and sanitation. The holistic approach has also helped community women, particularly, to use the time saved in fetching water for productive use including vegetable farming and thus improving nutrition for children.

The third presentation will share Global experiences with an emphasis in Tanzania and will focus on scaling up access to sanitation to meet MDGs. It will demonstrate that infrastructure oriented approaches to sanitation interventions led to poor progress on outputs and outcome and discuss the recently adopted behavior change approaches to improving sanitation. It will explain the WSP Global scaling up sanitation project which is testing new approaches to generate sanitation demand at scale and increase the supply of sanitation products and services increasing access to hygienic sanitation. Speakers

Chair: Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Sector Manager (Urban, Water and Disaster Risk Management), South Asia Sustainable Development Department, World Bank

Suman Prasad Sharma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Physical Planning and Works, Government of Nepal

W. Piyasena, Director General, RWSS Division and National Project Director, 2nd Community Water Supply and Sanitation Project, Sri Lanka

Ousseynou Diop, Sr. Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank

74

Panelists

Francis Ato Brown, Sector Leader, Urban/Water Africa Anglophone Unit, World Bank. Michele Messina, General Manager, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and Local

Development, UNICEF, Nicaragua Richard W. Pollard, Sr. Water and Sanitation Specialist, Middle East and North Africa

Sustainable Development Department, World Bank Format

(i) Three brief presentations with each not exceeding 15 minutes. Commentary from three panelists; the session is expected to be interactive. (ii) Panel views: 15 minutes (iii) Discussions: 30 minutes All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

75


Session 37: Access for the Urban Poor (2) Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MC13-121 Session conveners: Dennis Mwanza, Martin Gambrill and Pete Kolsky

Session Description

The urban poor around the world constitute the most pressing water supply and sanitation problems for a variety of reasons: high population densities in unplanned areas without service create ideal conditions for epidemics; the costs of service are often highest precisely where the need is greatest, and the ability to pay is lowest; and the population is often under-represented and poorly served by political systems.

This second session seeks to stimulate discussion and thought on two questions: 1. Why is it difficult to scale up and sustain water and sanitation services to the urban poor? 2. How can utilities, small scale providers and economic regulators start thinking beyond

the MDGs?

The session will have four short (5 minute presentations) to provoke discussion along three lines

(1) On regulation: What role can economic regulation play on small scale providers, water reselling (neighbor to neighbor), utilities engaging on services to the urban poor vs tariff regimes?

(2) Utility/local government extension of services to urban poor. (One from Africa, and one from LAC.) The presentations will summarize thoughts and experience on developing pro-poor strategies and guidelines, establishing specific units within the utilities to address issues of services to the urban poor. What lessons can be learnt in terms of role of local governments on improving access to urban services?

(3) Small scale providers: The role of small scale providers in peri-urban areas, and their interplay with the utilities, will be considered from the perspective of different regions.

Speakers

Chair: Wambui Gichuri, Water and Sanitation Program Regional Team Leader, Africa, World Bank

Dennis Mwanza, Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Africa Region, World Bank. Presentation: Economic regulation of water

Almud Weitz, Regional Team Leader, WSP, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank. Presentation: Local government and water in South East Asia

Ms. Yvonne Siyeni, Acting Head, Peri Urban Unit, Lusaka Water and Sewerage Company, Zambia. Presentation: Experience of an African Utility

Marco Quiroga, Consultant, WSP Latin America and Caribbean Region, World Bank. Presentation: Small scale operators: from LAC

Format After initial brief presentations, the floor will be open for discussion, (with 1 or 2 initial comments or questions focused on distinct regional differences.) There will be a brief wrap-up by the chair. All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event

76


Friday Events

77

Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum

Friday February 20th (9:30-12:00 a.m.) Room MCCI-110 (by invitation) In the capacity as the World Bank representative for the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Forum, the Water Anchor, by invitation only, is hosting a consultation with multilateral development banks, on revisions to the revised Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol.

Water Thematic Groups Retreats – Friday February 20th 2009 The various Water Thematic Groups will meet on Friday February 20th. Thematic Groups are informal community of practice of Bank staff. These retreats offer Bank staff to network and share knowledge in an informal setting. Most retreats will feature a roundtable on the main issues, trends, and challenges in various Bank regions (both in the sector and in how the Bank can support the sector). The objective of the retreats is not only to exchange know-how on the Bank’s work, but also to get to know your (new) colleagues working on similar issues as you. The retreats are not open to external participants. A lunch will be hosted by the Water Sector Board for the whole World Bank Water Community. The Water Resources Management Thematic Group and Urban WSS Thematic Group will be officially launched at that lunch. The various retreats are scheduled as follows: 9 am-10.30 am Rural WSS

(Preston) For more information: [email protected]; [email protected]

Watershed Management (JB1-080) Modeling for watershed management - a practitioners guide For more information: [email protected] am -1230 pm Sanitation & Hygiene or [email protected](Preston)

For more information: [email protected] Community lunch (Preston) 12.30 pm – 130 pm

1.30 pm – 4 pm Water Resources Management Urban WSS (MC4-800) (Preston) For more information: For more information:

[email protected] or [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected]

[email protected]

For more information, you can also consult the water intranet (http:\\water).

78

mailto:[email protected]








Rural and Town Water Supply and Sanitation Thematic Group Retreat Date: February 20, 2009 Time: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Room: Preston Session conveners and Chairs: Maria Angelica Sotomayor & Midori Makino Session Description Nearly three-quarters of the world's poor live in rural areas, and a large part of this population does not have access to clean water or safe sanitation facilities. Much has been learned about how to make investments in rural and town water supply and sanitation effective and sustainable. The challenge facing the sector today is how to scale up these experiences and to meet the MDGs. Increased financing is clearly needed, but so is client capacity to implement the investments and ensure their sustainability. The Rural and Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Thematic Group (RWSTG) is a group of World Bank professionals who are passionate about improving lives in the world's rural areas and small towns. A community of practice with approximately 190 formal members, over the last 10 years the RWSTG has been creating and disseminating sectoral knowledge in order to make the most efficient use of its collective experience and expertise. The RWSTG also partners with other Thematic Groups, sectors, networks, and external groups to facilitate its work. The objective of this RWSTG Retreat is to create a forum for the TG members to gather, share regional experiences and knowledge in the sector, review the TG events carried out in the past year, and plan for future TG activities. Agenda and Format The retreat will start with an introductory presentation by the TG Co-Chairs and remarks from the new Rural Global Practice Team coordinator from WSP. Each of the six regional representatives will then make WSP/WB joint presentations of their RWSS and town project and knowledge portfolio, as well as their key challenges. The retreat will end with a participatory session to discuss, agree, and plan the topics, format, and timing of the future TG activities.

79

Modeling for watershed management: A practitioners’ guide Sponsored by the Watershed Management Community of Practice Date: February 20, 2009 Time: 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Room: JB1-080 Session conveners: Grant Milne, Susanne Scheierling, Azamat Tashev

Chair: Grant Milne Session Description Best-practice WSM integrates land and water management, targets top-priority problems, and employs appropriate institutional mechanisms for working with the many groups that have a stake in most watersheds. To help capture upstream and downstream interactions, interventions must be planned within the larger watershed context and with a good understanding of the spatial and hydrological links between perceived externalities and their causal factors. New advances in modeling, remote sensing, and GIS can help increase understanding of the relationships between water, land, and proposed WSM interventions at the basin and sub-basin level. One emerging problem for practitioners is keeping track of modeling development, potential applications to specific problems, and requirements for data and technical capability. The objective of the technical session is to provide an overview of modeling approaches for watershed management, including a general typology (possibly based on watershed management objectives and model type) and a guide to developing, selecting and applying biophysical and operations models for watershed management. The technical session will present more detailed information on selected applications, discussion of the use of their results, and where possible give a brief example where the model has been successfully used. In addition, references and web links will be provided for further information/contacts on specific models and applications. Speakers Dr. Jay Lund, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of California Format Formal presentation followed by discussant comments and Q&A session Technical Program 9:00 am Introduction and background 9:15 am Overview of modeling approaches for watershed management, presentation of selected

applications and discussion of the use of their results, references to further information/contacts

10:15 am Coffee 10:30 am Discussant response, question and answer session, discussion 11:00 am Wrap-up

80

Note: The technical session will be followed by a business session of the Watershed Management Community of Practice group, from 11:05 am to 12:15 pm. Business Program 11:05 am Background on WSM-CP, current work program and status 11:15 am New corporate thinking on thematic and community of practice groups - results of the

January 2008 review of TG/CP groups 11:30 am New web-based tools in the Water Anchor for TG/CP knowledge management 11:45 am Moderated discussion - future directions and organization of the WSM- CP group 12:15 pm Wrap-up

81

Sanitation and Hygiene Thematic Group/Global Practice Team Retreat Date: Friday, February 20, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: Preston Session conveners: Pete Kolsky, Malva Baskovich, Ousseynou Diop Session Description The objective of the session is to promote inter-regional learning and exchange. The session is intended as the start of many conversations, rather than a complete and coherent exploration of a given theme, particularly given the tight time constraints. The session will be organized as a quick roundup of experiences and issues from around the World Bank and WSP regions. Representatives from each region will speak briefly to the following questions: 1. What is the basic context of sanitation, wastewater and hygiene in the region? 2. What are the most exciting developments to share with other regions? 3. On what questions would the region most like to learn experience from others? Speakers Speakers from each of the Bank WSS operations groups, and the WSP regions are to be confirmed. Format Given the large number of regions, the need to reflect both Bank and WSP experience, and the need to permit questions and discussion, presentations will be very brief and to the point. Presentations are limited to five minutes each, and without formal powerpoints. The session will begin with a brief introduction and perspective from the anchor and WSP HQ, followed by a group of presentations from ECA, MNA and EAP regions. A second group of presentations will made by LAC, AFTU1/2, and SAR. Each group of presentations will be followed by discussion and questions. Notes will be taken and circulated after the meeting.

82

Session Title: Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Retreat Session number: Date: Friday 20 February Time: 1.30 – 4 p.m. Room: Preston Session conveners: Martin Gambrill and Meike van Ginneken Session Description After three days of formal presentations and interactions with clients and partners, the thematic group retreats provide an opportunity for informal discussions of issues that you face in your day to day work in the World Bank. The retreat has a triple objective:

Substantial information and knowledge exchange on the Bank's work on urban WSS; Networking for Bank staff - getting to know colleagues and what they do; Determining the workplan/structure for the relaunched urban WSS TG.

The session will start with a roundtable of short interventions on issues, trends, and challenges going forward in the urban WSS sector in all Bank regions (both in the sector and in how the Bank can support the sector). The idea is not so much a 'dry' portfolio review, but rather some thoughts on the Bank's urban WSS in each region. The rest of the time will be spent on a structure discussion to examine common issues and solutions across Bank regions. Those seeking know-how on certain topics will be linked up with those who have experience and solutions. Priorities for cross regional work and the new thematic groups will be deducted from those discussions. This retreat is not open to external participants. Please note that at the retreat each region will be asked for a volunteer to sit on the Steering Committee of the new urban WSS TG. This should not take much of that person's time and will be a good networking opportunity. Please let us know if you would be interested. Speakers Bill Kingdom, South Asia Sudipto Sarkar, East Asia Mike Webster, ECA Alex Bakalian, MNA Ato Brown, Africa Speaker from LAC - TBC Format Roundtable (no powerpoints) and structured discussion using sticky cloth.

83

Re-vitalization of the Water Resources Management Thematic Group Date: Friday, February 20, 2009 Time: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Room: MC4-800 Session Conveners: Ousmane Dione (WRMTG Chair) and Rita Cestti (WRMTF Co-Chair) Session Description

After period of inaction of the Water Resources Management Thematic Group (WRMTG) and at the request of the Water Sector Board, a meeting of all regional water focal points was held on January 7, 2009 to discuss the best approach and key issues to consider in re-energizing the WRMTG. During the meeting, the participants agreed on the three strategic directions of the re-vitalized WRMTG: (i) promote sharing of knowledge and enhance cross-regional learning exchange; (ii) consolidate networks of practitioners and partnerships, and nurture the World Bank’s Business agenda and (iii) emerging niches in water resources management.

This session will bring together members of the water community with interest on water resources management to contribute to the formulation of an action plan for the revitalization of the WRMTG. Following a general presentation of the strategic directions and structure of the WRMTG and a presentation of the findings of the analysis of the information being gathered through the Virtual Thematic Group workspace, the participants will participate in a group discussion leading towards the formulation of the WRMTG Business Plan. The final business plan will be presented later to the Water Sector Board.

Speakers

Co-Chairs:

Ousmane Dione, Lead Water Resources Specialist, South Asia Region; and Rita Cestti, Senior Rural Development Specialist, Latin American and the Caribbean Region. Part 1

Presentation of the strategic directions and structure of the WRMTG Presentation of the findings of the virtual survey being conducted by the Water

Anchor Part 2

Participant inputs in developing a Business Plan for the WRMTG Format Interactive session divided into 2 parts. Presentations will be followed by general discussions.

84

Banking and Debt Management (BDM)

Presentation on Financial Products during Water Learning Week

How IBRD Financial Solutions can help reduce financial vulnerabilities

in Water Sector Projects Date: Friday, February 20, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Room: MC9-100 Session Description

Background: The core activities of the Banking and Debt Management (BDM) department of the World Bank Treasury include delivering innovative and customized financial solutions using IBRD financial products, and disseminating what the Bank offers to clients and to staff members. Brief Description of the Presentation: Overview of IBRD financial products and services Applicability of financial products for reducing financial vulnerabilities of Water Projects IBRD Financial Products and Services: Helping Reduce Financial Vulnerabilities for Water Projects (Presented by Antonio Dávila-Bonazzi)

85

Logistical Information

86

Services Available During Water Week Registration Desk (At Front Entrance to Main Complex) For Security Reasons, All External Participants MUST register prior to being admitted to Water Week Events. Watering Hole (Main Complex - Atrium) The Watering Hole provides publications and additional information outlining World Bank’s water-related activities. It makes for a great place to meet up with other colleagues to discuss topics of the Water Week or to have a side meeting. Here you can also find assistance with any questions pertaining to the logistics of the Water Week Event.

Presentations All presentations will be available online at www.worldbank.org/water approximately 2 weeks after the event.

Internet access Internet access is available in the Watering Hole

87


Drowning in information?

Thirsty for knowledge?

Visit ‘The Watering Hole’

in the MC Atrium for information, side

meetings, and relaxation

• Find lessons learned from

World Bank operations After Water Week, and still thirsty for knowledge? • Follow trends in water

• Read World Bank publications

For our clients and partners: • Visit the World Bank water website www.worldbank.org/water • Search data & statistics

• Sign up for our new external newsletter NewSplash at The Watering Hole or on our website

• Get to know World Bank staff working on water

• Download Water Week presentations For Bank staff:

http://water • Visit the water Intranet • Discover what the World

Bank does in your region • Join a water Thematic Group • Read our monthly internal newsletter The Source • Explore World Bank

strategies • Ask the Water Helpdesk: [email protected] • Sign up for newsletters

88


http://water/

89

World Bank Main Complex

Conference room access:

thJB1-080: Go to J Building (701 18 Street NW) MC6-100: Use NW elevator in the Main Complex Preston Auditorium: Ground level in the Main Complex MC13-121: Use NW elevator in the Main Complex MC2-800: Use SW elevator in the Main Complex MC4-800: Use SW elevator in the Main Complex

90

Documents

Table of Content - World Banksiteresources.worldbank.org/INTWAT/Resources/WW2009_v2.pdf · Peter Lubambo, Director for Housing and Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Local Government