Water security is a growing global concern as the world faces a water crisis even greater than the financial crisis. Securing safe and plentiful water for all is one of the most challenging issues. A water secure world faces interconnected risks including water scarcity, food price volatility, extreme weather, and migration. To achieve water security will require new governance approaches that leverage change across economic, social, and environmental areas. It will also need strengthened institutions, innovative financial instruments, skills development, information sharing, and a focus on adapting to change.

1. TOWARDS A WATER SECURE WORLD
Dr Mohamed AIT KADI
GWP/Technical Committee
ASIA WATER WEEK 2013
11‐15 March 2013

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3. Water Security = A Global Concern
The challenge of securing safe and plentiful water for
all of us is one of the most daunting challenges faced
b h ld d O i ll hby the world today… Our experiences tell us that
environmental stress due to lack of water may lead to
conflict and would be greater in poor countries
UN secretary‐General Ban Ki‐moon
WEF, 24 Jannuary 2008
Humanity is facing « water bankrupcy » as a result of a
crisis even greater than the financial meldown now
destabilizing the global economy … it is alreadyg g y y
beginning to take effect, and there will be no way of
bailing the earth out of water scarcity …
G. Lean, The Independent, 15 March 2009

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5. Governance
Gaps
Water Security and
Interconnected Risks
Geopolitical
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Biodiversity
Loss
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Risks
Globalization
Water
Security
Economic
Risks
Env.
Risks
Water
Scarcity
Food Price
Volatility
Societal
Extreme
Weather
F/D/DES
Oil Price
Volatility
risks
Migration
Chronic
disease
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6. New Enabling Environment & Instruments
• Policy instruments that promote complementarities (economic, social,
) & l henv); & leverage change
• Fiscal instruments: measures that give a price to environmental goods
• Strengthened institutional arrangements that function within increasing g g g
complexity, cutting across sectoral silos and sovereign boundaries.
• A new generation of financial instruments that share risk between
governments and investors; make new technology affordablegovernments and investors; make new technology affordable
• Skills development: a new and evolving set of skills to support water
management reforms
• Information and monitoring: set targets, define trajectories and gather the
right information to monitor progress (eg . Water security indicators)
• Innovation planning: increasing water productivity…p g g p y
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7. It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the
t i t hone most responsive to change.
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8. Comment nourrir l’humanité?
Thank you!
This is a unique time in history – decisions made now will disproportionately influence the
future !!!