Stockholm World Water Week 2024 // SIWI Seminar Series (3/3): Technical solutions for secure water supplies: WEFE-Nexus in Transboundary Contexts
Sharing water resources, be it either surface or groundwater, between countries requires transboundary water cooperation. WEFE Nexus solutions that impact such shared water resources may have a transboundary effects. This session aims at contributing to an enhanced understanding of the transboundary challenges and chances of the WEFE Nexus, by hearing inputs on technical solutions and a panel discussion.
World Water Week 2024
This year Stockholm World Water Week 2024 is centered on water cooperation, for peace and security in its broadest sense. The theme, Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future, asks us to recognize the regional and global interconnectivity of communities and nations, and underscores the collaborative effort needed to achieve a peaceful and sustainable future.
SIWI Seminar Series (3/3): Technical solutions for secure water supplies: WEFE-Nexus in Transboundary Contexts
- Date: 28 August
- Time: 11:00 - 12:30
- Location: Room 27, Level 2
- Session ID: 12052
Summary
The session objectives are to present robust scientific evidence and showcase technical solutions and their integration to the WEFE Nexus and transboundary water management, share lessons learned and create a common understanding of challenges and scaling opportunities in applying WEFE Nexus technical solutions to enhance cooperation in national/cross-sectoral and cross-boundary levels.
The session should also contribute to an enhanced understanding of the potential transboundary implications of any water-related intervention, such as WEFE Nexus applications, conducted unilaterally in shared water resources.
Session Description
The implementation of WEFE Nexus approaches in riparian countries may enhance water use efficiency, integrating the water needs of different sectors, and can therefore be beneficial to transboundary water cooperation in the case of shared water resources.
WEFE Nexus solutions include a variety of technical innovations and interventions that benefit at least two of the four WEFE Nexus sectors while ensuring positive impact and outcomes for all sectors. These include a range of technical applications to improve the management of water resources, improve use efficiency, increase crop productivity, or mobilize alternative sources of water to increase availability. These applications involve small to medium-scale interventions at the local level, or larger-scale, multi-purpose infrastructures, like solar-irrigation systems, multi-purpose dams, and wastewater treatment plants with resource recovery.
Sharing water resources, be it either surface or groundwater, between countries requires transboundary water cooperation. WEFE Nexus solutions that impact such shared water resources may have a transboundary effect. Cooperation on such solutions is therefore necessary to avoid conflicts on different levels.
This session aims at contributing to an enhanced understanding of the transboundary challenges and chances of the WEFE Nexus, by hearing inputs on technical solutions and a panel discussion.
Programme
5 minutes
Session opening:
Barbara Gerhager, Head of Section, Competence Center Water, Wastewater, Waste Management, GIZ
20 minutes
Keynotes Speaker(s):
- Dr. Mohsin Hafeez, Strategic Program Director of Water-Food and Ecosystems, IWMI
- Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook, Director Hydrology, Water and Cryosphere, WMO Moderator:
- Dr. Maha Al-Zu’bi, Regional Researcher, IWMI
60 minutes
Presentation (Technical Solutions):
Presentation 1: Roland Bäumle, Senior Hydrogeologist, BGR
Presentation 2: Sid Vollebregt, Co-Founder, Elemental Water Makers
Panel Session:
Panelist 1: Dr. Youssef Brouziyne, Regional Representative & CGIAR Water System Lead in the MENA region, IWMI
Panelist 2: Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook, Director, Water and Climate Coalition Secretariat at WMO
Panelist 3: Dieter Rothenberger, Cluster Coordinator, Global Water and Sanitation Programmes, GIZ
Panelist 4: Diane S Arjoon, Principal Rural Water Security Officer, African Water Facility
Panelist 5: Samar Al Kreidy, Youth Ambassador, Blue Peace Middle East.
Q and A Moderator: Dr. Juan Carlos Sanchez Ramirez, Research Group Leader - Water Governance and Political Economy, IWMI
5 minutes
Wrap-up and Closing
Barbara Gerhager, Head of Section, Competence Center Water, Wastewater, Waste Management, GIZ
Convenors
- Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
- Veolia
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH