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New Frontiers of Sanitation
Wednesday 20 August
Morning Seminar
Convenors: Asian Development Bank (ADB), Diageo, International Water Association (IWA), Suez Environment, United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB), UN-Water and World Bank (WB)
From distiller/manufacturer, wetland advocate, visionary scientist, water company, two banks, senior national experts, and expert water practitioners come new paradigms of waste water treatment and disposal. Our world of rising economic expectations and accelerating urbanisation is also a world that will add another 2 billion plus people AND is a world that resists paying the costs associated with water services, especially sanitation and waste water. AND it is a world of skyrocketing fertiliser prices, algae harvesting, greenhouse gas concerns and improved fuel cells. What can science show us today? What works in prototype and practice? And above all, what will it take to implement such new concepts?. All will be explored by the panel, following each set of presentations.
Seminar Programme 09:00-12:00, Room T5
Moderator: Ms. Margaret Catley-Carlson, UNSGAB Member
09:00 |
Moderator Explains Format for the Seminar |
09:00 |
Panel 1 |
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• Changing the Way We Dispose of Waste and Treat Water.
Today's Formula is Not Optimal for the Whole World - Can We Find Alternatives for Water/Sewage Linkage? Are these Imaginable at the City Level? Can We Stop at First Stage Sewage Processing - What would be the Financial and Health Implications?
• Getting to a New Paradigm - How Water Professionals are Moving Us Along (tbc)
Darren Saywell, International Water Association
• A Whole New Look at How We Can Help Wetlands - And How They Can Help Us.
Chris Baker, Wetlands International, Technical Officer, Wetlands and Water Resources
• The Latest in Toilet Thinking.
Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Director, Office for Promotion of Johkasou, Minister of Environment, Japan
• An Industry Balances Water Supply and Wastewater in its African Operations? Can this Approach be Used More Universally?
Gareth Collins, Environmental Manager, International Beer Supply, Diageo
• What Would it Take? Panel Discussion with Audience |
10:15 |
Panel 2 |
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• Learn to Stop Wasting Wastewater. Effective Harvesting of Waste Water in Agriculture and other Uses. Could Sewage and Sanitation Ever Pay for its Own Processes? How to Prepare Populations for the Needed Changes?
• The Experience in PRC: Can China be a Leader in this Area?
Zhang Yue, Ministry of Housing and Rural-Urban Development, People's Republic of China, Sponsored by the Asian Development Bank (in Mandarin)
• The World Bank - Can Agricultural Wastewater Use in African Cities be Improved?
Susanne M. Scheierling, Sr. Irrigation Water Economist, World Bank
• What Would it Take to Have These Concepts More Universalized? Panel Discussion with Audience |
11:15 |
Panel 3 |
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• The Energy and Greenhouse Gas Implications of Present and Potential Practices. How much Energy do We Actually Use for Sewage/Water Treatment Processes? How Much Energy can We Generate? What are the Real Alternatives?
• Moving Examples from the Present to the Future (tbc)
Jean-Marc Audic, Senior Water Manager, Suez Environment
• Harvesting Waste Water for Energy? Decentralizing Whole Systems?
Prof. Willy Verstraete, Head of the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology Faculty of Agriculture and Applied Biological Science, Gent University, Belgium
• What Would it Take to Make it Happen? Panel Discussion with Audience |
12:00 |
Close of Seminar |
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