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- In the town of Lekhnath in western Nepal a GeoViewer asset management system has been installed allowing the Water Users Committee to effectively manage and monitor their resources, plan maintenance and repairs, and keep track of asset performance in real-time.
- Any gains toward eradicating Asia and the Pacific’s numerous development challenges are always under threat by climate change. Successes related to poverty and inequality reduction, or improved water, food, and energy security may be crippled by one extreme hazardous event such as a flood.
- Solid waste management remains one of the most challenging environmental issues for Pacific nations. Heavy reliance of most Pacific islands on imported goods creates a one-way flow of materials into small island developing states.
- The Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) 2023 Annual Work Program supplements the WFPF 2022 Annual Report. ADB’s priorities are to deepen and sustain support to water sector operations to ensure innovative solutions, quality, and sustainability and mainstream resilience.
- The Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) Annual Report 2022 presents the results and achievements for 2022, based on the Facility’s Results Framework 2021–2030. WFPF supported six new activities to help innovate project design, capacity building, and institutional reforms across Asia and the Pacific.
- Excessive reliance on water resources and their inefficient use are the primary reasons for Central Asia’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, which are making water more scarce. Countries should prioritize increasing water efficiency across sectors.
- Policy makers must prioritize innovative financing models that provide long-term services, financial sustainability, and equitable access to water and sanitation.
- This guide provides strategic direction for the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) support to the water sector through 2030.
- For almost four decades, the Government of Japan has partnered with ADB to support efforts in helping vulnerable communities across Asia and the Pacific. Find out how the bank's largest financing partner in the water sector is helping strengthen water security for all in the region.
- The price of water supply can be kept very low by sharing spillover tax revenues collected by the government with private investors and water infrastructure operators.
- Dhaka, the economic, cultural, and political center of Bangladesh, is set to have a sustainable water supply that could keep up with its rapidly growing urban population and industrialization.
- Major challenges are overwhelming Solomon Islands' water supply and sanitation services. ADB, along with the European Union and the World Bank, is helping the country surmount these challenges through a sector-wide water and sanitation project that will expand and upgrade Solomon Islands' water and sewerage infrastructure.
- Remarks by Woochong Um, ADB Managing Director General, at the 6th UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters, UN 2023 Water Conference, 21 March 2023, New York
- ADB will be hosting three in-person sessions at UN 2023 Water Conference on 21-24 March 2023 at the UN Headquarters in New York City.
- ADB, with financing from the government of Japan, is supporting Mongolia to improve solid waste management practices, reduce environmental pollution, and enhance community awareness and employment opportunities in the waste management sector.
- The proposed Water Resilience Trust Fund will be a multi-donor trust fund to strengthen water resilience in ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs).
- Through the Water Financing Partnership Facility, ADB has been able to deliver more water investments with high development impact and demonstration value, improve governance, and strengthen the capacity of water institutions in the region.
- This 12-day training program for select policy makers from developing Asia and experts will examine city-wide inclusive sanitation policy and innovation challenges and opportunities in the region.
- ADB joined with the Government of Solomon Islands, the World Bank, Solomon Water, and members of the Kongulai Community in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project.
- The project preparatory technical assistance (TA) aimed to support the preparation of the proposed multitranche financing facility (MFF) for the Delhi Water Supply Improvement Investment Program (DWSIIP) to improve the existing water supply system in the North of Delhi and enhance the institutional and financial management capacity of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB).