Room 3

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

This session provides an overview of how countries are financing the protection of their water resources (river, lakes, groundwater) from multiple funding sources. The session will share specific experiences in national and sub-national financing mechanisms from East and West Africa and Latin America. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences related to fimancing during the discussion session to enhance the common understanding.

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.

Water management can be more efficient and scientific through increasing the efficiency and accuracy of water management based on ICT technology and sharing water management information by establishing a smart system that can forecast, monitor and control the supply of agricultural water.

Although many technology options for WASH services have been adopted in institutional settings such as schools, health care facilities and public spaces, new technologies are emerging that require validation and need to be assessed against national norms, if these exist. This session aims to stimulate a conversation about emerging technology options and considerations for WASH services in specific geographic/climate contexts and offer guiding actions on how best to support governments to embrace appropriate, sustainable technologies for institutional settings.

Individual sanitation, especially in rural areas, is often the poorest part of national sanitation policies. While public money largely subsidises urban master plans and collective infrastructures, individual sanitation, by nature on the private domain, is the sole responsibility of households. The latter, when they are aware of the problem, find themselves having to manage the financing, design, construction and maintenance of their infrastructures and the management of its by-products.

Almost 1 in 2 people globally do not have access to adequate sanitation, can’t safely evacuate or reuse wastewater. The situation in rural settings for the most vulnerable people is even more critical, 2 third of the people globally lacking access to basic sanitation living in rural areas.
Innovating in sanitation chain is a necessity. A necessity to prevent public health issues, environment pollution, to preserve water resources, developing the production of non-conventional water and promote rural development.

Optimizing the monitoring of (i) the development and operation of water assets and (ii) the management of the public drinking water supply service (DWSS), implies detailed and dynamic control of the assets and a capacity to monitor and control the operating data of the assets.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer many opportunities to set up adapted, inclusive and participative tools.

Greater frequency and intensity of floods, droughts, unpredictable rainfall patterns… Water is the first victim of climate change, and our societies are collateral victims. As climate change impacts increase, a massive financial effort is required to improve water resources management, develop (green and grey) water infrastructures and boost adaptation.

To make an inventory of invasive plants in Senegal: evolution of colonization, current situation, fight (in all forms), valorization and perspectives.