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Propuesta incluida en la sesión. FT1.02
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| 1.CONTACT INFORMATION OF POTENTIAL CONVENER(S) |
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TS0451
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Convening Organization(s) |
Seine Normandy Water Agency (AESN)
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| Head of organization |
Guy FRADIN |
| Position. |
Chief Executive Officer |
| Contact person / people
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Olivier BOMMELAER |
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Director International department |
| Address
51 rue Salvador Allende |
| Post / Zip code 92027 |
City
Nanterre |
| Country
France
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| Telephone
01 41 20 17 70 |
Fax 01 41 20 17 16 |
| E-mail |
calle.myriam@aesn.fr |
| Website http://www.eau-seine-normandie.fr |
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2.TYPE OF ORGANIZATION |
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Governments and governmental authorities
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3.INFORMATION ON THE ORGANIZATION’S INCORPORATION
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| Year of incorporation
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| 1964
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| Objective of the organization
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Programing and financing all water investments within the catchment area. Operating the basin water fund on behalf of all basin stakeholders amongst which 8692 municipalities. Monitoring the water resources and ecosystems . Assessing the impacts –human, economical and environmental- of the financed program. Implementing a participatory and equitable governance of water and related investments.
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Has the organization previously convened a session at a World Water Forum?
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Yes
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Which:
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Evaluating and monitoring the access to water supply and sanitation
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| 4.CO-CONVENING ORGANIZATIONS |
| (1) Name of organization GRAVAMEX |
| Contact person: Martin Hidalgo WONG |
| Position: Planning Director |
| E-mail address: Martin.hidalgo@cna.gob.mx |
| (2) Name of organization Sewerage owner for Parisian Agglomeration (SIAAP) |
| Contact person: Laurent DOYEN |
| Position: International Cooperation Manager |
| E-mail address: laurent.doyen@siaap.fr |
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5.FRAMEWORK THEME AND CROSSCUTTING PERSPECTIVE(S)
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Framework themes. |
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Agua para el crecimiento y desarrollo |
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Crosscutting Perspectives.
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Nuevos modelos para financiar iniciativas locales
Desarrollo institucional y procesos políticos
Desarrollo de capacidades y aprendizaje social
Establecimiento de metas, monitoreo, y evaluación de la instrumentación.
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6.GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS OF THE SESSION
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A.Please select whether the focus of the session is global or regional
Global |
B. Precise if it's specific to a country, city, area of a city or river basin.
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| Country
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| City, State, Province, etc. |
Paris, Mexico, Istanbul…Fez, Havana, Hué, Phnom Penh, Johanesburg, Montréal |
| River Basin |
River basins or bays of the quoted cities |
| 7.TITLE OF THE PROPOSED SESSION |
| Title: WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT TO FIGHT POVERTY |
8.OBJECTIVE
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Facts and figures : World population has been multiplied by 7 within the 2 past centuries generating unprecedented anthropic pressures on water resources and environment. Over the same period, African population alone was multiplied by 15, and is still predicted to double within the coming 44 years: from about 70 millions people in 1800, it should grow to over 1.8 billion people by 2050. Whereas in 1990, only 43% of the world population was composed of urban dwellers (WHO/UNICEF), it can be estimated that by march 2006 they will account for more than 50% due to the observed ongoing galloping urbanization. Economic growth and job creations being higher in large agglomerations than in rural areas, demographic growth therefore concentrates in megacities where GDP per capita is much higher. Between 1950 and 2005, the number of world agglomerations exceeding 10 million people was multiplied by 33. Moreover, more than half of the global population now concentrates in coastal areas, where all untreated water pollutions ends up. UN agencies (UNEP, UNESCO, HABITAT,...) estimate that, throughout the world only 15% of all people are connected to a waste water treatment facility, and only 2% -based mainly in developed regions- to modern treatments including nutrient removal. Uncontrolled discharges of municipal wastewater (including industrial and storm water pollutions) have been identified as a major cause of human and economic losses, as well as of water ecosystems and ocean pollution: impact on the environment notably results in the growing of persistent contamination of water supplies and resources. Amongst other negative impacts this generates water and food born diseases, loss of incomes, increasing costs for health care and treatment of drinking water, massive fish killing and drop in tourism. Lack of treatment in large agglomerations therefore leads to massive transfers of poverty towards those rural periurban and coastal population. At the global scale, it directly threatens a large number of rural water supplies, notably those being currently developed to fulfil the world’s commitment on target 10 of MDG7. Format of the session The context will be introduced by UN agencies (UNESCO,UNEP, WHO,), while local water decision makers and political leaders from at least 5 large agglomerations and watershed related (Paris/Seine river, Mexico/Mexico valley, Fez/Sebou river, Hue/Vietnam, Havana/Havana bay, etc...) will present historical reviews of the majors steps taken, of the problems met and of the solutions identified. They will attempt to assess the impacts of the undertaken actions as well as of the pending ones, both for their urban dwellers and for those populations and ecosytems living downstream. Reckoning that there is no fully satisfactory experience recorded over the world which would be able to produce universal solutions the session will emphasize pragmatic and transparent listening and exchange of singular experiences encountered by local actors rather than revolutionizing the subject by producing academic and dogmatic answers. All aspects of these urban waste waters concrete achievements and challenges will be discussed and assessed: - governance, socio-political and planning options, - financial, human development and economic choices - environmental and health impacts, The added value of the session will be to: - give a voice to those local politicians facing choices and decision making - identify with them common lessons and messages drawn from local and historical cases related to political and socioeconomic processes that might locally lead to improve existing situations and prevent widening the gap between rich urban dwellers and poor rural inhabitants.
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9.TITLE OR NAME OF LOCAL ACTION(S) TO BE PRESENTED DURING YOUR SESSION (At least one these acions should aleready be in the database of local actions on the 4th forum website, and should be the same name as on that website).
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Urban waste water treatment in the agglomeration of Paris : history, main challenges, main steps of development, institutional, financial and socio-economical aspects. Targetting further development and prospective. Identical case studies for the agglomerations of Mexico, Fès, Havana….
At least 4 local actions already registered by the involved partners can illustrate this topic :
o LA0532 Basin solidarity to control pollution in France and contribute to poverty alleviation in developing countries
o LA0713 – Economic impact of quality of coastal resources management
o LA0733 – Financing a large scale sanitation plan to achieve major goals
o LA0737 – Public participation in the implementation of european water management issues
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10.EXTECTED OUTPUTS OF SESSION.
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To produce one synthetic document summarizing the main common findings and messages built with the participants during the debate with local politicians and water decision makers of the seating agglomerations. To produce at least one local action for each case, to be included afterwards in the local actions portfolio of the forum. Sessions messages will try to answer the following questions: 1. can the world community durably and equitably treat target 10 of MDG7 without paying a specific attention to the global challenge of untreated municipal discharges? 2. Can we identify real experiences of low cost technologies able to bring reliable and long lasting solutions to this challenge? 3. How long can the planet stand the present level of anthropic pressures and contamination over its water ecosystems and resources: what are the consequences of the present “business as usual trend” in term of global sustainable development, growth, poverty reduction and equity between urban and rural dwellers? What would be the predictable economic consequences if we succeed in reverting this scenario and in controlling the urban pollutions? 4. From the case studies and from other registered local actions which concrete elements can enlighten local political choices? These concrete tools should relate to identified costs-benefits analysis characterizing the respective major impacts of action and non action. 5. Can this issue be financially and politically solved only by municipal water owners? How did large agglomerations in developed countries finance their existing infrastructures? What kind of financial systems integrating social equity and solidarity between the rich and the poor can be or have been identified in local actions at each step of developing their municipal waste water systems? Consensual synthetical messages and lessons drawn from the sessions should be passed to the ministerial conference.
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11.USE OF LOCAL ACTIONS TO ACHIEVE THESE OUTPUTSCOMES OF YOUR SESSION
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Paris/Mexico comparison as part of Twin Basin Program One case study per agglomeration partner will be produced
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12.EXPECTED NUMER OF PARTICIPANTS (please note that around 10,000 participants are expected at the Forum, and that session rooms range from 80 to 1100 participants)
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250
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13.ACTIVITIES TOWARD PRIOR TO THE PROPOSED SESSION
(Comferences, workshops, meetings, virtual workshops, research, studies etc.)
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participation at the Monterey meeting on "Water for growth" and Pollutec Paris meeting at the end of november
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14. ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS OR COMMENTS
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Environment should be a cross cutting issue
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