The IWA Water and Development Congress & 2019 Highlights
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The document summarizes the IWA Water and Development Congress & 2019 highlights. It discusses that the congress (1) brought together over 90 countries and 120 institutions to translate international principles into operational policies, (2) promoted collaboration on holistic water policy reform, and (3) disseminated best practices. Key messages from 2019 included that regulators should enable but not unsafe innovation, address climate change, promote water recycling, and collaborate more. The next International Water Regulators Forum will be at the 2020 IWA World Water Congress in Copenhagen.
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The IWA Water and Development Congress & 2019 Highlights
- 1. The IWA Water and Development Congress & 2019 highlights CAROLINA LATORRE ARAVENA, SENIOR OFFICER 13th Meeting of the WGI-OECD 9-10 January 2020, Paris
- 2. 2 Bridging leaders from science to policy and practice for sustainable growth 90+ countries, Regional and International Forum (120+ institutions) Provides a channel for practitioners to translate international principles and policies into operational terms Promotes collaboration to enable a holistic approach to policy reform, institutional arrangements and regulations that improve efficiency of service providers. Disseminates and consolidates good practices facilitating peer to peer learning IWA WATER POLICY AND REGULATIONS 2019 XII Ibero-American Forum on Regulation (FIAR), with ADERASA. Colombia, 16-17 October 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Regulators Forum at IWA ASPIRE (Hong Kong) November 1st IWA Water and Development Congress, Colombo-Sri Lanka, 1-5 December
- 3. 3 Key messages from 2019 • Regulators can promote and enable innovation – but most importantly, avoid unsafe innovation • Regulators have the duty to improve understanding of current climate change challenges • Water recycling and reuse are important resources that regulations need to better address to improve access to services • Full cost recovery of services remain to be a challenge for tariff setting, and a risk for water safety • Collaboration: moving away from a ‘referee’ role towards a ‘collaborator’ one. • Connect water management in urban and rural areas. The UN Sustainable Development Goals are inspiring water professionals to re-imagine how they do water and sanitation: “Governance is very, very important. With poor governance, most utilities, especially in emerging economies, have a problem” IWA Development Congress 2019 - Colombo Next in 2020 6th International Water Regulators Forum at the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, Copenhagen-Denmark 18-23 October 2020
- 4. 4 What are the opportunities? Join the discussions on IWA-Connect https://iwa-connect.org/group/water-policy-and- regulation/timeline Contribute and lead working groups, initiatives and regional dialogues, case study collection, etc. Participate in the regional and international Fora, webinars, trainings e.g. WWCE 2020 Who to contact? Carolina Latorre Carolina.Latorre@iwahq.org Learn more on https://iwa- network.org/projects/water- policy-and-regulation/ ENGAGE WITH IWA WATER POLICY AND REGULATION 5th International Water Regulators Forum Tokyo 2018
Editor's Notes
- This area of work on Water Policy and Regulation of IWA aims at providing a number of mechanisms to assist practitioners in reaching the targets of the 2030 Agenda. This requires new business and financial models that rely on a holistic approach to policy reform, institutional arrangements and regulations that improve the operational and commercial efficiency of service providers. Sound working regulatory systems are one of the building blocks of this transition, with regulators being a driver for innovative investments and sustainable growth. How we work with members: Provide a channel to translate global policies and international principles, but also good practices from other latitudes, into operation terms – by and with members – eg NBS regulators task force Promote collaboration to enable a holistic approach – connecting members to members and beyond – eg 2nd Asia Pacific Water regulators Forum in HK, and the project with IDB on human rights to water and sanitation that aims at developing a capacity building program connecting utilities and regulators in LAC. Disseminates and consolidate good practices facilitating peer to peer learning – member driven and supported by the secretariat - eg several trainings and webinars, as well as developing tools like the IWA Manual on the human rights to water and sanitation FIAR 16-17 October, Sustainable water management as a global public good – with CRA, Ministry of housing, and ADERASA 2ns ASIA PACIFIC Water Regulators Forum - 1 November 2019 – Hong Kong Policy and Regulation for Sustainable and Resilient Water Management in Asia-Pacific - With the Water Supplies Department & Drainage Services Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government; and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management Hong Kong (CIWEM HK) Development Congress the largest water event in southern Asia this year, the IWA Water and Development Congress & Exhibition 2019 provided a powerful platform for progress on water and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It brought together some 3000 water sector professionals from 100 countries, representing key and influential organisations, to discuss and build alliances around the pressing water issues facing the world.
- Members can engage as much as their interest and capacity allows. At minimum they can subscribe to updates joining the various communities in IWA Connect under the group Water Policy and Regulation, using this platform to communicate with other members as well. A medium level of engagement is to attend one of our calls and invitations to contribute to working groups, initiatives and researches – eg for LAC the ongoing project on human rights and regulators. A higher level of engagement is to participate in one of the Fora, or lead an event or new initiative, which requires to express the needs and objectives that align with IWA’s Strategic Plan for 2019-2024 – for example, The Partnership with ADERASA gave place to the project on human rights in the region and was led by the enquiry of the members who provided the support to make it possible. Other more simple examples are the series of webinars on NBS, and in particular that of NBS and regulation that was led by utility and regulator members.