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Archive of What's New at
Water for All - 2009

• Events
• 5th NARBO IWRM Training (18-25 February 2009; Hoi An, Viet Nam)
• Twinning Regional Forum (10-13 February 2009; Daejeon, Korea)


• Event Materials
• Report: Inception Meeting on Good Practices for Urban Water Management in Asia (9 October 2008; Singapore)


• New section
• Piloting Small Piped Water Networks


• Pilot Demonstration Activity
• Financing Models for Small Scale Water Service Providers
• Strengthening Capacity to Enhance Sustainability and Accountability of Irrigation Water Users’ Association


• Publications
• Water for All E-Newsletter: The Price and Prize of Innovations (December 2008)


• Updated Sites
• ADB Water Operations
• Country Water Actions
• Comprehensive Review of ADB's Water Policy Implementation: Consultations
• Cooperation Fund for the Water Sector: Highlights of Accomplishment
• Opportunities
• Pilot and Demonstration Activities
• Designing a Catchment Management Plan for Lake Kutubu
• Pilot and Demonstration Activities: Using Compensation Mechanism for Watershed Protection Services in Citarum
• Water Champions
• Water Financing Program 2006-2010
• Water Financing Partnership Facility
• Water for Asian Cities
• Water Operators Partnerships Program
• Water Sector Reforms Study

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• Article
• Getting Sanitation on Track


• Country Water Actions
• Bangladesh: Breaking a Dirty Old Habit
• India: Changing the Sanitation Landscape
• Indonesia: Educating Kids for a Healthy Future


• Champion
• Sahari Ani: Floating Toilets for Floating Villages


• Event
• ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue (3-5 March 2009; Manila, Philippines)
• Meeting on Action Plan for Water and Climate Change (25-27 February 2009; Manila, Philippines)


• New Section
• ADB-JWA Collaboration on Improving Water Security in River Basins
• Establishing the Gender and Water Network in Central Asia
• Water Financing Partnership Facility (Annual Report 2008) (February 2009)


• Publications
• In the Pipeline: Water for the Poor - Investing in Small Piped Water Networks
• Water Financing Partnership Facility (Annual Report 2008) (February 2009)
• Water for All E-Newsletter: Dumping the Dirty Deed (February 2009)


• Speech
• Opening Address
  Hun Kim, Director, South Asia Urban Development Division, at the Twinning Regional Forum (10 February 2009, Daejeon, Korea)


• Updated Sites
• ADB's Water Policy
• Asia-Pacific Water Forum
• Asia-Pacific Water Forum: KnowledgeHubs
• Knowledge Base and Capacity Development
• Funding Facilities for Water
• Partnerships
• PDA: Adaptation and Verification of Arsenic Mitigation Technology
• PDA: Advocacy for Change: Multi-Stakeholder Platform for Urban Water Reforms
• Piloting Small Piped Water Networks
• Speeches
• Water Champions
• Water Knowledge Center
• Water Operators Partnerships Program
• Water Financing Partnership Facility
• Water Financing Program 2006-2010

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• Event
• ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue (3-5 March 2009; Manila, Philippines)
• ADB-Viet Nam Sanitation Dialogue (16-17 April 2009; Thanh Hoa, Viet Nam)
• 5th World Water Forum: ADB’s Commitments (16-22 March 2009; Istanbul, Turkey)


• Event Materials
• ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue
• Twinning Regional Forum


• Meeting Report
• ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue


• Multimedia Products
• Aceh Farmers: Back on the Land
• Coming Clean on Sanitation


• Pilot and Demonstration Activities
• Consolidating Advances in Integrated Water Resources Management in Yom River Basin
• Stimulating Participatory Process for Water Allocation in Bang Pakong
• Use of Bamboo for Land Stabilization, Soil Erosion Control, Water Catchment Rehabilitation, and Effluent Treatment in Citarum River Basin


• Speeches
• Opening Address
  Haruhiko Kuroda, President, at the ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue (3 March 2009, Manila, Philippines)
• Remarks
  WooChong Um, Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Division at the ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue (3 March 2009, Manila, Philippines)
• Welcome Remarks
  Amy S.P. Leung, Director, Social Sectors Division & Chair, ADB Water Committee at the ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue (3 March 2009, Manila, Philippines)


• Updated Sites
• Asia-Pacific Water Forum
• Country Water Actions
• Dignity, Disease, and Dollars - Asia’s Urgent Sanitation Challenge
• Funding Facilities for Water
• Multimedia
• China’s Water Challenge
• Saving Cambodia’s Great Lake
• Water at the Doorstep
• Opportunities
• Pilot and Demonstration Activities
• Applying Vetiver System for Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control in Citarum
• Beneficial Uses of Biosolids
• Community-Based Water Resources Management Approaches for Hill and Mountain Ecosystems
• Developing Appropriate Sanitation Solutions for Peri-Urban Areas
• Enhancing Sustainability of the Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Facility at the Lilo-an Public Market
• Financing Models for Small Scale Water Service Providers
• Geographic Information System for Integrated Water Resources Management in Cimanuk River Basin
• Model for PDAM Collaboration for Improved Raw Water Management
• Piloting an Adaptive Management Approach to IWRM in Yom River Basin
• River Basin Approach to Integrated Water Resources Management
• School-led Gender Sensitive Water Supply and Sanitation in Kapilvastu
• Strengthening Capacity to Enhance Sustainability and Accountability of Irrigation Water Users’ Association
• Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Punjab's Barani Areas
• Sustainable Wetland Planning and Management in Jiangsu Yancheng Wetlands
• Technology to Cope with Debris Flows in Mountain Regions
• Using Compensation Mechanism for Watershed Protection Services in Citarum
• Water Briefs
• Power of Two—Boosting Performance Through Twinnning
• Water Operators Partnership Program
• Water Champions
• Water Knowledge Center
• Water Operators Partnerships Program

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• Article
• Engineering River Recovery


• Champion
• Maria Lourdes Fernando: Keeping Marikina River in the Pink of Health


• Country Water Action
• Changing Mindsets to Clean Rivers
• Resuscitating the Pasig River


• Event Materials
• 5th NARBO IWRM Training (Hoi An, Viet Nam)
• ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue (Manila, Philippines)
• ADB-Viet Nam Sanitation Dialogue (Thanh Hoa, Viet Nam)


• Events
• Launching of Knowledgehub for River Basin Organization and Management (Solo Indonesia)
• Singapore International Water Week 2009 (Suntec, Singapore)
• Workshop on Developing Water and Climate Change Adaptation Guidelines (Selangor, Malaysia)


• Pilot and Demonstration Activity
• Using "Aakash Ganga" Self-Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting


• Updated Sites
• ADB Water Financing Program (WFP) 2006-2010
• Basin Water
• Rural Water
• Urban Water
• Asia-Pacific Water Forum: Events
• KnowledgeHubs: Events
• Loans and Technical Assistance
• Multimedia
• Breaking Barriers
• The Connection
• Hidden Paradise
• Islands and Climate Change
• Changing Lives: Rural Water Schemes in Sri Lanka
• Upstream Downstream
• Waibulabula: Living Waters
• Walking for Water
• Water Tomorrow
• Water Voices
• Network of Asian River Basin Organizations: Events
• Opportunities
• Pilot and Demonstration Activity
• Clean River Program for Nantai Island
• Water Champions

Top

• Article
• Engineering River Recovery


• Champion
• Maria Lourdes Fernando: Keeping Marikina River in the Pink of Health


• Country Water Actions
• Changing Mindsets to Clean Rivers
• Resuscitating the Pasig River
• River Cleanup from Mountains to Sea


• Events
• Knowledge Sharing on Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in Asia (19-21 May 2009; Seoul, Korea)
• Stakeholder Consultations on Draft Philippine National Sewerage and Septage Management Program (12 May 2009; Cebu City, Philippines, 19 May 2009; Davao City, Philippines, 2 June 2009; Manila, Philippines )
• World Water Week: Eye on Asia (18 August 2009; Stockholm, Sweden)
• Workshop on Developing Water and Climate Change Adaptation Guidelines (26-28 May 2009; Selangor, Malaysia)


• Event Materials
• Knowledge Sharing on Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in Asia
• Highlights: Making Sanitation Everybody’s Business


• Pilot and Demonstration Activities
• Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Major Non-Tidal Rivers
• Developing and Pilot Testing a Specialists Course on Riverbank Protection


• Publications
• Water for All E-Newsletter: Rough Road to River Recovery


• Speech
• Keynote Address
  Ursula Schäfer-Preuss, Vice President, Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, at the Knowledge Sharing on Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in Asia Workshop (19 May 2009, Seoul, Korea)


• Updated Sites
• Country Water Action
• Dignity, Disease, and Dollars: Asia’s Urgent Sanitation Challenge
• Loans and Technical Assistance
• Opportunities in Water
• Pilot and Demonstration Activities
• Adaptation and Verification of Arsenic Mitigation Technology
• Applying Vetiver System for Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control in Citarum River Basin
• Bang Pakong Dialogue Initiative
• Beneficial Uses of Biosolids
• Community-Based Water Resources Management Approaches for Hill and Mountain Ecosystems
• Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Facility for the Lilo-an Public Market
• Developing Appropriate Sanitation Solutions for Peri-Urban Areas
• Developing and Testing Environmental Education and Awareness Methodologies
• Development of Pro-Poor Rural Water Actions in Collaboration with an NGO – CARE
• Development of Pro-Poor Rural Water Actions in Collaboration with an NGO – World Vision
• Education for Sustainable River and Water Conservation
• Establishment of Samoa Water Authority Wastewater Division and Associated Private Sector Participation Enabling Conditions
• Facilitating Irrigation Sector Reform in Chhattisgarh
• Groundwater Aquifer Rejuvenation Demonstration Pilot Project for Balochistan
• Multimedia Products
• Aceh Farmers: Back on the Land
• Water Champions
• WaterLinks

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• Events
  • 1st Annual Progress Review Meeting of APWF KnowledgeHubs (24 June 2009; Singapore)
  • 2nd NARBO Technical Advisory Committee Meeting (25 June 2009; Singapore)
  • New Thinking on Water Governance: A Regional Consultation Workshop on Improving Water Governance (1-3 July 2009; Singapore)
  • Singapore International Water Week (22-26 June 2009; Suntec, Singapore)
  • Stakeholder Consultations on Draft Philippine National Sewerage and Septage Management Program (2 June 2009; Manila, Philippines)
  
  
• Event Materials
• Knowledge Sharing on Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in Asia (19-21 May 2009; Seoul, Korea)
• Regional Launch Workshop of the Center for River Basin Organizations and Management (27 April-1 May 2009; Solo City, Indonesia)
• Workshop on Developing Water and Climate Change Adaptation Guidelines (26-28 May 2009; Selangor, Malaysia)
• WSP-EAP Economics of Sanitation Initiative Regional Workshop (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)


• New Section
• CD-ROMs: Water for All Publications (2009)
• Papers


• Speech
• Opening Address
  Woochong Um Director, RSID at the Singapore International Water Week (22-26 June 2009; Suntec, Singapore)


• Updated Sites
• Brochures
• Midway Milestones for ADB’s Water Financing Program 2006—2010
• CD-ROMs
• Smarter Sanitation: How to Clean Up Your Sanitation and Wastewater Mess
• E-Newsletter
• Knowledge Center
• Multimedia
• Opportunities in Water
• Pilot and Demonstration Activities
• About PDAs
• Integrated Water Resources Management and Environmental Impact Study (Timor-Leste)
• Operational Research on Decentralized Wastewater Management & its Dissemination (Nepal)
• Participatory Project Evaluation of Community Action in Hygiene Promotion (China, People’s Republic of)
• Pilot-test the Preparatory Process of Developing a New Subproject Management Model (Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of)
• Promoting Gender Equality for Poverty Reduction Through Improved Irrigation Management (Nepal)
• Reducing Mercury and Heavy Metals Contamination in Meycauayan River (Philippines)
• Water Champions
• Water Financing Program (WFP) 2006-2010
• Basin Water
• Rural Water
• Urban Water

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• Articles
• Boosting Supply the Smart Way
• Water Reuse: Supplementary Water


• Champions
• Harry Seah on Making the Unthinkable Drinkable


• Country Water Actions
• Dousing Melbourne’s Dry Spells with Recycled Water (Australia)
• Living on City Wastewater (India)
• Science Makes Sludge Useful (China, People’s Republic of)


• Events
• 3rd Nonrevenue Water Management Training Course (6-9 July 2009; Hai Phong, Viet Nam)
• 6th CITYNET Congress (7-11 September 2009; Yokohama, Japan)
• New Thinking on Water Governance: A Regional Consultation Workshop on Improving Water Governance (1-3 July 2009; Singapore)


• Event Materials
• New Thinking on Water Governance: A Regional Consultation Workshop on Improving Water Governance (1-3 July 2009; Singapore)
• 2nd NARBO Technical Advisory Committee Meeting (25 June 2009; Singapore)


• Meeting Report
• 2nd NARBO Technical Advisory Committee Meeting (25 June 2009; Singapore)
• Singapore International Water Week (21-26 June 2009; Singapore)


• Publications
• Improving Results, Improving Lives: ADB's Water Financing Partnership Facility
• Water for All E-Newsletter: Reuse It or Lose It


• Photo Gallery
• Beneficial Uses of Sludge (China, People’s Republic of)
• Dousing Melbourne’s Dry Spells with Recycled Water (Australia)


• Sector Roadmap
• Palau


• Updated Sites
• Asia-Pacific Water Forum
• KnowledgeHubs
• Champions
• Country Water Action
• Opportunities in Water
• Pilot and Demonstration Activities
• Beneficial Uses of Sludge (China, People’s Republic of)
• Reducing Mercury and Heavy Metals Contamination in Meycauayan River (Philippines)
• Resources
• Government Stakeholders
• Private Sector
• Journalists
• Researchers
• Resources

• Articles
• Boosting Supply the Smart Way
• Water Reuse: Supplementary Water


• Champions
• Harry Seah on Making the Unthinkable Drinkable


• Country Water Actions
• Dousing Melbourne’s Dry Spells with Recycled Water (Australia)
• Living on City Wastewater (India)
• Science Makes Sludge Useful (China, People’s Republic of)


• Events
• 6th CITYNET Congress (7-11 September 2009; Yokohama, Japan)
• Launch of Knowledge Hub on Water Quality Management in River Basins (19 August 2009; Incheon and Daejeon, Korea)


• Event Materials
• 3rd Nonrevenue Water Management Training Course (6-9 July 2009; Hai Phong, Viet Nam)
• Launch of Knowledge Hub on Water Quality Management in River Basins (19-22 August 2009; Incheon and Daejeon, Korea)


• New Site
• World Water Week Results


• Publications
• India’s Sanitation for All: How to Make It Happen
• Revitalizing Asia’s Irrigation: To Sustainably Meet Tomorrow’s Food Needs
• Water for All E-Newsletter: Reuse It or Lose It
• Water Rights and Water Allocation: Issues and Challenges for Asia


• Updated Sites
• ADB's Water Policy
• ADB Water Operations
• Books
• In the Pipeline: Water for the Poor — Investing in Small Piped Water Networks
• Water in Asian Cities Study
• Briefs and Brochures
• Country Water Actions
• Dignity, Disease, and Dollars: Asia’s Urgent Sanitation Challenge
• Funding Facilities for Water
• Opportunities in Water
• Papers
• Water Sector Reforms Study
• Pilot and Demonstration Activity
• Financing Models for Small Scale Water Service Providers (Philippines)
• Groundwater Aquifer Rejuvenation Demonstration Pilot Project for Balochistan (Pakistan)
• Initiating Integrated Water Resources Planning in the Vu Gia Basin (Viet Nam)
• Poverty Impact of Public Irrigation Expenditures (Viet Nam)
• Preparation and Adoption of a Comprehensive Management Framework for the Hunan Flood Management Sector Project (China, People’s Republic of)
• Rationalizing Tariff for Private Water Utilities under the National Water Resources Board (Philippines)
• Sustainable Water Integrated Management and Governance for Baguio City (Philippines)
• Water Management Information Dissemination and Extension for Irrigated Agriculture (Philippines)
• Promotion and Awareness
• Video Documentaries
• Coming Clean on Sanitation
• Water Knowledge Center
• Water Financing Program 2006-2010
• Water Financing Program 2006-2010: Water Financing Partnership Facility

• Book
• Dams and Development


• CD-ROMs
• Dams and Development
• In the Pipeline: Water for the Poor — Investing in Small Piped Water Networks


• Events
• 6th CITYNET Congress (7-11 September 2009; Yokohama, Japan)
• Philippine Symposium on Sustainable Sanitation (15-16 October 2009; Makati City, Philippines)


• Opportunities
• Employment
• Principal Water Resources Management Specialist
• Rural Development Specialist
• Procurement
• Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Armenia)


• Pilot and Demonstration Activity
• Demonstrating Enhanced Productivity of Irrigated Agriculture System through Multifunctional Water Users Associations (Nepal)


• Publications
• India’s Sanitation for All: How to Make It Happen
• Revitalizing Asia’s Irrigation: To Sustainably Meet Tomorrow’s Food Needs


• Reports
• CFWS Semiannual Progress Report (January-June 2009) [ PDF ]
• CFWS Semiannual Progress Report (July - December 2008) [ PDF ]
• Inception Report: PDA on the Use of Bamboo for Land Stabilization, Soil Erosion Control, Water Catchment Rehabilitation, and Effluent Treatment in Citarum River Basin (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• WFPF Semiannual Progress Report (January-June 2009) [ PDF ]


• Updated Sites
• Country Water Actions
• Cooperation Fund for the Water Sector
• Related Materials and Links
• KnowledgeHubs
• Pilot and Demonstration Activities
• Use of Bamboo for Land Stabilization, Soil Erosion Control, Water Catchment Rehabilitation, and Effluent Treatment in Citarum River Basin (Indonesia)
• Creating an Institutional Framework for Improving Water Systems Management in Rural Areas (Tajikistan)
• Demonstrating Sustainable Sanitation Improvement and Management through Community Initiative (India)
• Development of a Water Quality Management System for the West Tarum Canal of the Citarum River Basin (Indonesia)
• Establishing Local Partnership for Managing Water and Sanitation Services in Secondary Towns (Azerbaijan)
• Production of Water Filter from Coconut and Palm Oil Shells (Thailand)
• Water Champions
• Water Financing Partnership Facility
• Water Financing Program
• Water for All News