Circular economy

Water utilities around the world and particularly in developing countries face major challenges, in particular the high level of water losses, due to leakage in the networks, fraud, billing problems, metering problems etc. The difference between the volume of water that enters the distribution system and the water billed to consumers is called Non-Revenue Water (NRW).

The objective of this panel is to allow participants to discuss the challenges and issues related to water security in Senegal and to formulate concrete recommendations for a better integration of the water security approach in policies, strategies and programs. The panel will present:
- The challenges and issues related to water security in Senegal;
- The issues of governance of BR and sectoral policy for a good IWRM;
- The organizational and legal framework of IWRM for a good implementation of water security;

The panel seeks to address the need to include adaptation to climate change in the formulation of public policies and strategies by governments and water and sewage operating companies.
The resilience of water supply systems play a fundamental role in the strategic planning of those responsible for the sanitation sector to permanently serve the various water users, especially the supply for inhabitants of urban and rural areas where the resources are no longer available in abundance

The objective is to share recommendations to maximize the economic benefits of multipurpose dams (generation, navigation and consumption) and present different financing options according to each project.

The overall objective is to empower smallholder farmers through new paradigms to save water by using dirty rainwaters, domestic wastewaters or saline waters. These actual abandoned waters could be used to make equitable the access to productive waters. This session will provide tools to turn saving waters into a wealth-producing resource. Reasoned access to rainwater and wastewater represents a major innovative economic asset to empower small agriculture in rural and peri-urban systems.

The overall objective is to empower smallholder farmers through agroecological techniques to make access to productive waters sustainable and equitable. Provide the tools to turn saving water into a wealth-producing resource and disseminate improved agroecological techniques as tools to safeguard water and soils to benefit agricultural production.

The response to meeting the need for sanitation systems is limited by their adaptability and may not meet environmental sustainability requirements. Many solutions are being shared around the world to address this situation, despite the intensity of the advocacy. Communities are eager to see, at long last, this conundrum properly addressed. During this World Water Forum, several answers including, among others expected at this World Water Forum, the best technologies responding to the site constraints will be made available by the world's experts.