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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…

Farming Crisis

9 March 2021
This session describes the current key challenges of farming and proposes transformative changes in policies and approaches for making farming profitable and gender-friendly, highly productive, and attractive to the youth in the region.

ADB Experience and Knowledge Sharing (Focus on Gender, Climate Change, and High-Level Technology)

9 March 2021
The Asian Development Bank has stepped up its efforts to introduce innovative approaches and technologies under its policy-based and investment loans as well as technical assistance projects. This session presents some of these innovative projects and highlights lessons learned so that other…

Welcome Remarks on International Women’s Day 2021

8 March 2021

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…

Water-Energy-Food NEXUS, Water Accounting and IWRM

16 February 2021
Jonathan Lautze presented an overview of innovative approaches and tools that advance water security and climate resilience.

Improving Water and Energy Use Efficiency in the Lift Irrigated Areas of Uzbekistan

16 February 2021
Kakhramon Djumaboev outlined how improving water use efficiency can reduce energy use in the irrigated agriculture sector of Uzbekistan.