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Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture for the Uninitiated: Launch of an Information Kit
Monday 18 August
Evening Side Event
Convenors: World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
In 2006 WHO, with FAO and UNEP, published the third edition of the Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater in Agriculture and Aquaculture. This third edition is an important departure from earlier versions which focused on global guideline values. The third edition proposes a more flexible risk assessment and management approach supported by the Stockholm Framework. It raises a range of new technical issues and requires active roles from professionals in different sectors. The complexities of the approach have created a demand for guidance on specific areas for specialist groups in the Guidelines’ broad readership. The information kit developed by WHO, FAO and IDRC and launched at this event aims to respond to this demand, and the various aspects will be highlighted by a number of key speakers, in presentations and in a Panel discussion.
17:15-19:00 Room K24
17:15 |
Introduction of the Session – Scope and Objectives
Mr. Robert Bos, WHO, Switzerland |
17:20 |
The 3rd Edition of the WHO Safe Use of Wastewater Guidelines: Their Place in the Broader Water Quality Assurance Framework of WHO
Dr. Jamie Bartram, WHO, Switzerland |
17:30 |
What’s New in the Third Edition?
Mr. Robert Bos, WHO, Switzerland |
17:40 |
IDRC/WHO/FAO Projects in Ghana, Jordan, Senegal – Work in Progress
Mr. Mark Redwood, IDRC, Canada |
17:50 |
Promoting Best Practice through Farmer Field Schools
Dr. Sasha Koo-Oshima, FAO, Italy |
18:00 |
Panel Discussion: What Are the Real and Perceived Complexities in the Guidelines and How can we Address them:
Panel members: Professor Duncan Mara (UK), Professor Thor-Axel Stenstroem (Sweden), Jamie Bartram (Switzerland), Sasha Koo-Oshima (Italy), Mark Redwood (Canada) |
18:30 |
Launch of the information kit |
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Remaining Questions and Answers |
18:40 |
Close of side event |
Jamie Bartram is the Coordinator of the WHO Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Programme in WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment.
Robert Bos works as a Scientist in WHO Geneva’s Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health programme and is a teamleader for the WSH team “managing water resources to prevent vector-borne and pollution-related disease”.
Sasha Koo-Oshima is Water Quality and Environment Officer in the Water Resources, Development and Management Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome
Duncan Mara is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds in the UK.
Mark Redwood is a Senior Program Officer in the Urban Poverty and Environment Programme of the International Development Research Center in Ottawa, Canada
Thor-Axel Stenström is a Professor and the Chief Microbiologist in the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
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Presentation from the event
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