Water security is a global concern as the challenge of securing safe and plentiful water for all is one of the most daunting challenges faced by the world today. Humanity is facing a "water bankruptcy" crisis even greater than the current financial crisis that is destabilizing the global economy. This water crisis is already beginning to take effect and there will be no way to bail the earth out of increasing water scarcity. To achieve water security, new enabling environments and instruments are needed, including policy tools that leverage economic and social complementarities, fiscal measures, strengthened institutions, innovative financial mechanisms, skills development, improved information and monitoring, and a focus on increasing water productivity and responsiveness to change.

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

2. WATER SECURE WORLD

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
by the world today… Our experiences tell us that
b h ld d O i ll h
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 already
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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. Water Security and
Governance
Gaps
p Interconnected Risks
Biodiversity
Loss Geopolitical
Risks
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Globalization
Water
Scarcity Env. Water Economic
Risks Risks Food Price
Security Volatility
Extreme
Weather
F/D/DES
Oil Price
Societal Volatility
risks
Migration
Chronic
disease
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6. New Enabling Environment & Instruments
• Policy instruments that promote complementarities (economic, social,
env); & leverage change
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• Fiscal instruments: measures that give a price to environmental goods
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• Strengthened institutional arrangements that function within increasing
complexity, cutting across sectoral silos and sovereign boundaries.
• A new generation of financial instruments that share risk between
governments and investors; make new technology affordable
governments 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…
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7. It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the
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one 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 !!!