Water has a direct impact on food, energy, and economic growth security challenges. Combined with most-up-to-date ICT, the Smart Water Grid was created to overcome limitations of existing water resources management systems.

While the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has experienced rapid growth in recent decades, this development brought serious impacts on water supply and pressure on environment and natural resources. The Government of PRC views wastewater treatment and water reuse as key strategies in addressing the challenges.

Urbanization, while it leads to growth and development of cities, exerts stress on infrastructure as it utilizes more land and disrupts workings of the natural ecosystem. Ensuring optimum sustainable urban growth requires the use of interdisciplinary knowledge of water availability, usability, and governance and integration in planning practices.

The structural role and challenges of irrigation in East Asia are often not factored into macroeconomic accounts of regional development. The Asian Development Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the World Bank have expressed interest in taking a regional view of modernization to anticipate lending and technical assistance for irrigation in East Asia and the Pacific.

The structural role and challenges of irrigation in East Asia are often not factored into macroeconomic accounts of regional development. The Asian Development Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the World Bank have expressed interest in taking a regional view of modernization to anticipate lending and technical assistance for irrigation in East Asia and the Pacific.

Results of a global survey among senior water utility executives reveal that increased water stress by 2030 is a foregone conclusion. Reducing water losses would require rationalizing the criteria and priorities toward a non-revenue water reduction strategy.

The steady rise of population growth in Asia’s megacities including the Philippines' capital city of Manila requires a holistic and integrated approach in sustainable water management. The experience of Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System in the Philippines has shown that improved water governance is the future of urban water management.

Challenges impede the strong rationale for Nepal to adopt an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to manage its river basins—the Bagmati River Basin in particular. Implementing IWRM will require the development of a River Basin Organization that can support inter-sector coordination.

Challenges impede the strong rationale for Nepal to adopt an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to manage its river basins—the Bagmati River Basin in particular. Implementing IWRM will require the development of a River Basin Organization that can support inter-sector coordination.

Many poor households in Indonesia live in informal areas of cities with deteriorating services that local governments could not provide. Funded by ADB, the Neighborhood Upgrading and Shelter Project was created with the aim to increase provision of shelter for the urban poor, focusing on housing supply.