Presentation by Ms. Yasmin Siddiqi, Principal Water Resource Specialist, Asian Development Bank

1. Water-Energy-Food Nexus:
Doing More with Less

7. ADB Water Financing 2006-
2020
Complete Package of Assistance:
• Investments ($2.0 - $2.5 billion annually)
• Reforms (policy, legislation, regulation)
• Capacity development (sector institutions)

8. Operational Challenges
• Water not on the agenda
• Demand for investments
• Fragmentation – external and internal
• Weak institutional capacity –
disbursement/sustainability
• Safeguards
• Technology and innovation

9. Actions
1. Country Water Assessments:
– 8 CWAs under preparation
– AWDO 2013 : water security indexes (PRC,
MON)
– Demand from DMCs
– Limited knowledge partnerships

10. Actions
22. Operationalizing Nexus:
– Closer links rural-urban water
– Water-food improving efficiency and
productivity
– Operations links between water-energy
increase water profile
– Reinvigorate IWRM

11. Actions
3. Innovative financing:
– Options for results based lending, policy
loans
– Private sector and Public-Private
Partnership
– Large energy loans to leverage water
resources management