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Drinking Water Safety Plans: Samoa Independent Water Schemes Association

12 March 2021
Clarissa Laulala discussed key takeaways from the development and implementation of drinking WSPs for over 54 villages under Samoa's Independent Water Schemes Association. She particularly highlighted challenges and lessons learned, including maintaining ongoing community engagement, lack of…

Disruptive technologies such as Smartstick for improved water measurements and financial viability of WCAs

2 March 2021
In this presentation, Oyture Anarbekov discussed Smartstick as a disruptive technology that can improve water measurements and financial viability. He also highlighted how to improve the transparency of on-farm water distribution, which should lead to better governance and increased financial…

Targeting Investments in Medium to Large Scale Irrigation Schemes, IMWI

2 March 2021
In this presentation, Dr. Simon Langan presented proper guidance to identify areas where investments are important. He showed how the organization and government functions contribute to water service delivery. He also discussed the issues of functions and the mechanisms to promote water services…

RS based diagnostics for irrigation scheme performance

2 March 2021
In this presentation, Dr. Lisa-Maria Rebelo showcased outputs from remote sensing analyses with ground level data. She also discussed how these integrations contributed to better water asset management, targeting of investments and selection of priority assets/blocks/schemes and in identifying…

Financial Sustainability of Water Utilities and the Impacts of COVID-19

23 February 2021
Paul White and Paul Webber are directors of Wedgewood White Limited, a New Zealand based consultancy specializing in financial, economic and commercial analysis of infrastructure businesses and projects. Both are qualified in engineering and finance, and collectively have more than 50 years of…

Fostering Adoption of Model Driven WEF Solutions through IWRM Approaches in Western Nepal

16 February 2021
Luna Bharati provided an example of integrated water resources management-oriented processes utilized to engage stakeholders in allocation and management decisions.

Turning from risk to resilience: How the IWMI's innovations and emerging solutions can help investors?

12 February 2021
Giriraj Amarnath discussed ways to build up resilience through tested water solutions, featuring perspectives from IWMI

Water at the center of climate risk

11 February 2021
Richard Betts highlighted that the future of water is uncertain, which poses a major challenge for adaptation. In one projection, he notes that many countries in Asia could be greatly affected by river flooding, due to projected rainfall and the sheer density of the population.

Centrality of water in adaptation: Early results from a meta-review

11 February 2021
Aditi Mukherji shared how they conducted a 6-month study of 1800+ peer-reviewed documents on adaptation (post-2014). Of these, about 82% are about water, and particularly water adaptation responses on agriculture. But, majority are mostly incremental and not transformational.

Presentations: Strategies for Supplying Water to Informal Areas and Handwashing in Public Places

3 February 2021
In this presentation, the speakers, share insights on handwashing and water supply in informal areas, the set-up of handwashing facilities, and how to integrate WASH in utility networks.