The document discusses key challenges around water supply, food and energy for future research. It focuses on transboundary issues, the Zambezi river, and specific issues related to hydropower, infrastructure development, and valuing water. It proposes a comparative study of the Zambezi river and China's Yangzi river. It also discusses experience and lessons from China's and Africa's infrastructure development, hydropower, irrigation, and transboundary water management. Potential partner institutions for future collaboration are listed.

1. Water supply, food and energy
• Key challenges & topics for future research
• Experience & lessons
• Current research & development priorities
• Contributors for joint papers
• Partner institutions for future collaboration

2. Key challenges & topics for future research
• Transboundary issues:
– Information collection and sharing
– Operational rules of dams, considering
conflicts and uncertainties in the river systems
– Food- energy-environment-water nexus
– Flash floods: predicting, risk assessment, and
adaptation
– Efficient water use
– Sustainable wastewater disposal

3. Key challenges & topics for future research
• Zambezi river
– Optimization of irrigation and hydropower
– Win-win solution for food-energy-environment
– 8 countries collaborative projects on water
supply, irrigation, hydropower and
environmental flow
– Long-term implications of infrastructure
development

4. Key challenges & topics for future research
• Specific issues:
– Hydropower: renewable or not?
– Financing and institutional architectures for
water & sanitation infrastructure
– Climate change impacts and adaptation
– How can we speed up infrastructure
development in Africa?
– How do we value and price water in order to
ensure water supply for all?

5. Experience & lessons
• China’s experience and lessons
– Infrastructure development
– Hydropower
– Irrigation
– Environmental flow
– Transboundary issues
• Africa’s experience and lessons
– Infrastructure development
– Hydropower
– Irrigation
– Environmental flow
– Transboundary issues

6. Contributors for joint paper/research
• Comparative study of Zambezi river and a river
in China ( Yangzi river ), in terms of:
– Infrastructure development
– Hydropower
– Irrigation
– Environmental flow
– Transboundary issues

7. Partner institutions for future collaboration
• Center for Chinese studies, Stellenbosch
University
• IWMI
• Power China
• DFID
• Tsinghua University
• IWHR China
• ZAMCOM
• SADEC
• ORASEDOM
• Etc.

8. • Africa is on the move! – population, economies….
• China learn from Africa
• Africa learn from China
• Africa needs major investment in water ‘3 INS’:
information, institutions, investments
• China is already playing a role in financing &
engineering
– this could grow… & add information (monitoring, planning)
& institutions (training, system operation, regulation, etc),
transferring lessons from experience in China
– Better for China AND better for Africa
China – Africa: the opportunity

9. CIES AND
INVESTMENTS
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