This document provides information about an upcoming annual UN Water Conference in Zaragoza, Spain from January 8-10, 2013. It discusses ambitious goals for countries in Africa to achieve growth, alleviate poverty, and ensure sustainable development through food, energy, water, and climate resilience plans. Some countries' specific targets are mentioned, such as Laos wanting to exit least developed country status by 2020 and Ethiopia aiming for 11% annual economic growth. The document also outlines opportunities for cooperation across borders and river basins in Africa to optimize resources, access markets, and jointly address threats through regional approaches rather than just national ones.
Recap from day 2 and overview of day 3, by Josefina Maestu, director UNW-DPAC
Overview presentation on transboundary cooperation. Lessons learned from water cooperation in transboundary basins
1. J.B. Collier
Operations Officer
Africa Natural Resources and
Water Management Group
Annual International UN Water Conference
Zaragoza, Spain
January 8-10, 2013
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2. Ambitious goals to “Laos wants to pull
achieve itself out of least-
growth, poverty developed country
status by 2020”
alleviation, sustain
able development.
“By maintaining at
Food, energy, least an 11 percent
annual average
water, security and economic growth
climate resilience and by addressing
plans. emerging
development
bottlenecks, meet
the MDG target.”
(Ethiopia)
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3. Optimize
regionally
rather than
nationally
Economies of
scale
Balance
Access to
each
markets
other’s
Postpone
needs
investments
Jointly face a
common
threat
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4. 276 River Basins in Few River
the world. basin
agreements.
> 60% of have no
treaty provisions Mostly
covering them. bilateral.
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5. What’s holding the countries back?
Perceived Risks
INTERNAL EXTERNAL
DRIVERS COUNTRY DRIVERS
CONSIDERATIONS
Security
Benefits and
Costs (Economic) Global Dialogue
Economic
Development Regional
Perceived Risks Geopolitics
Needs
(Political)
Rights Climate Risks
(and few
Opportunities)
(Political)
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6. There is a need to catch up quickly
in a global context …
90
80 2009 Data from The World Bank
Life Expectancy (years)
70
60
50
40
30
100 1000 10000 100000
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GNI per capita (US$/yr)
7. Growing Population
Growing Cities
Urban Areas: Cities with Population greater than 1 million Areas that contributeEconomies
Growing to Africa’s GDP
Cairo
15 Gross Cell Product
million in 2005
Lagos (1995 US$, billions)
Dakar
8.7 million Khartoum Growing Cities
5.6 million
Kinshasa Dar-
es-
Salaam
2025
2010
Population in 2000 on UN
Sources: FAO based
Cape Town Source: The World Bank AFR Water Resources in a Changing Climate, 2010
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Data Source: UN Agglomerations Population Data
Statistics Division, 2008 based on data from GECON GDP Dataset, Yale University 2010
8. New Visualizations building on better Global Datasets
Interactive Documents
Innovative Hardware
(e.g. Tablets)
Online Portals 8
9. Shared Regional
“Top-down” Systems
Real-time
Hydromet
Systems
Precipitation (rain & snow)
Data Transmission
(e.g. Satellite, Fixed-
line/ Cellphone, Radio
Reservoir Levels
Telemetry)
Internet/
Intranet
Flow, ET, Soil
Sediment, Moisture, Biom
Floods, GW, … ass…
“Bottom-up” Systems
Data Management
(Visualization, Forecasts, Storage, Archival, 9