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IETC participated World Water Forum 4
in Mexico, 16 - 22 Mar 2006

UNEP participated in this large event as a convener of multiple sessions as well as through the participation of its staff members as presenters and panelists amongst others. The WWF4 brought experts on water and related fields from all over the world with sessions on Water for Growth and Development, IWRM, Water Supply and Sanitation, Water Management for Food and the Environment, and Risk Management that covered the Forum’s agenda. An important part of the sessions were the presentations of examples of local actions showing activities and projects undertaken on the ground.

IETC jointly convened the session on Promoting the World Lake Vision (WLV) and Integrated River Basin Management for the Future of Global Water with the International Lake Environment Committee Foundation (ILEC), the Shiga Prefecture Government of Japan and the Global Nature Fund. This session dealt with aspects related to the sound management of lakes and reservoirs and the implementation of the World Lake Vision. ILEC and the World Bank presented the Lake Basin Management Initiative as one step ahead in basin management. IETC's project on the Support for Environmental Management of the Iraqi Marshlands was presented in this session since wetlands can be considered as shallow lakes (within certain limitations). The project draw the attention of a large audience due to its nature and objectives. See presentation in PDF(5.54MB).

On a different topic, IETC jointly paneled two more sessions both related to rainwater harvesting i.e. Rain, Watershed Management and Food Sovereignty (convened by UNEP-Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean), the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA) and CICADELLI (Mexico), and Ecological Management and Rainwater Catchment Systems convened by International Rainwater Catchment System Association (IRCSA) and the East Asia Rainwater Catchment System Association (EARCSA). It is no question that rainwater harvesting has gained its place in terms of being an very reliable Environmentally Sound Technology (EST) to augment freshwater while also assisting in preventing flooding, enhancing the quality of life, and help to reach the Millennium Development Goal related to the provision of safe drinking water amongst other benefits.

As a result of the talks held during WWF4 with members of the Rainwater Partnership, it was agreed that UNEP will continue keeping the secretariat functions of the partnership for another eighteen months.

Posters presenting IETC's project in Iraq and in Viet Nam related to resource augmentation were displayed in UNEP booth. The latter, jointly implemented with the Vietnam Cleaner Production Centre and the Binh Dinh sugar production company considers rainwater harvesting and the utilizing of organic waste. This is done with the purpose of augmenting water for reuse in some of the factory’s production processes, treating organic waste to produce biogas and compost for agriculture while protecting the environment (http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/spc/projects.asp#p3).

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