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8-9 November, 2016.
This year’s symposium will address the SDG 6 to “ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all” in relation to the UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health as well as to critical implications for other resources such as energy and materials needed to establish water provisioning systems (see SDG 12.2).
The event aims to discuss possible water supply scarcities in the future, analyse water markets and policies, as well as modelling approaches interlinking those issues. Finally it shall conclude on future water management systems.
The programme will consist of a mix of plenary, panel and networking sessions with speakers from both UCL and other universities in the UK and overseas as well as featuring grassroots community organisations to high profile national and international speakers.
Draft programme
Tickets for the Water SDGs and Future Water Management Symposium are now available via eventbrite.
Tuesday 8 November
12.30 Registration
and light lunch
13.30 Opening Keynote
14.00 Session 1: Water Supply Scarcities and Resource Interlinkages
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Session 2: Water Markets and Modelling (Keynote: Prof Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University)
17.30 Water Supply Chain
18.00 Wrap Up
18.15 Networking Reception
Wednesday 9 November
09.00 Registration
and coffee
09.30 Opening Keynote: Prof Lyla Mehta, University of Sussex
10.30 Session 3: Water Policies and Outlook on Future Water Management
11.30 Coffee
11.50 Stakeholder session: Future Water Management - from Knowledge to Action (panel session)
13.00 Wrap up
and close
13.15 Networking Lunch
Full programme
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Presentations
Day 1 Keynote
'Global Water Scarcity, Food & Storage: a critical review' by Prof Richard Taylor, UCL Geography
Session 1 - Water Supply Scarcities and Resource Interlinkages
‘Temporal Variations of Water Productivity in Irrigated Corn: An Analysis of Factors Influencing Yield and Water Use across Central Nebraska’ Tony Carr, UCL ISR
‘Hybrid Wind-Solar Water Desalination in the Aral Sea Basin’ by Dr Luiza C. Campos, UCL CEGE
‘Water, Food, and Conflict: How Resource Scarcity Influences Collective Violence' by Dr Alison Heslin, New York University
Session 2 Water Markets and Modelling
Opening keynote: 'Sustainable irrigation in the global food system' by Prof Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University
‘Optimal Water Reform Strategies: The Lessons from Buy-Back in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin’ by Dr David Adamson, The University of Queensland, Australia
‘CGE Approach to Assess the Impacts of Water Scarcity due to Climate Change in Japan’, Dr Hiroshi Hamasaki, Fujitsu Research Institute
‘Modelling irrigation water requirements under future economic development pathways’, Victor Nechifor, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources
‘Water and energy: a critical link’ Dr Martina Flörke, University of Kassel
Keynote on Water Supply Chain
'Multi-functionality of the water supply chain: implications for integrated resource management' by Prof Louise Bracken, Durham University
Session 3 Water Policies and Outlook on Future Water Management
Opening keynote: ‘What’s missing in debates of the water SDGs and water management policies’ by Prof Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies
‘Public Private Partnerships (PPP) in a Multi-level Governance Setting: A Study of the Indonesian PPP Program in the Water Sector’ by Radies Kusprihanto Purbo, Griffith University
‘An Outlook for Future Water Management: The Role of Participatory Processes in Decision Making doe Local Multi-use Water Services’ by Atiyeh Ardakanian, UCL CEGE
‘An integrated, model-based approach to evaluate WASH sector investment options’ by Dr Charalampos Triantafyllidis, Imperial College London & UCL
‘Technology transfer and local innovation in the Thai wastewater treatment industry: Evidence from Clean Development Mechanism projects’ by Tobias Reinauer, UCL Energy Institute
‘Continental Shelf Aquifers in International Law: (In-between) Law of the Sea, Energy Law and Water Law’ by Marguerite de Chaisemartin, Independent Consultant
Stakeholder session: Future Water Management —from Knowledge to Action
Keynote: 'From Knowledge to Action' by Dr Xavier Leflaive, Water Team Leader, OECD Environment Directorate
'Delivering water supply and sanitation –a case study' by Prof Ian Barker, Water Policy International Ltd.
'Exagenica Research' by Rhys Watkins, Exagenic