Entries from December 2008
El curso es organizado por la Dirección del ILPES en conjunto con la División de Recursos Naturales e Infraestructura, y en colaboración con la Unidad Agrícola de la División de Desarrollo Productivo y la División de Desarrollo Sostenible y Asentamientos Humanos.
Se prestará atención a los siguientes temas: uso y aprovechamiento del agua (agricultura, riego, transporte fluvial, generación hidroeléctrica, minería), gestión y manejo del agua (asignación y control de contaminación), gestión de cuencas (organismos de cuenca, pago por servicios ambientales), prestación y regulación de servicios de utilidad pública (agua potable, saneamiento, y electricidad) y temas transversales (género, gestión del riesgo).
Application deadline: 06 March 2009
Contact: Lucy Winchester, lucy.winchester[at] cepal.org Teléfono: (56-2) 2102509 Fax: (56-2) 2066104.
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Categories: Capacity development · Education & training · Governance · Policy & legislation · Water resources management
Organised by the International Water Association (IWA), this event will bring together 1,000 international water and sanitation professionals to discuss emerging solutions, developments and approaches to sustainable water and sanitation management and exchange knowledge on all aspects of service delivery in low and middle income countries.
In addition to many international subjects and issues related to water and sanitation delivery, this congress will pay particular attention to the needs of the Latin American region, its megacities, urban centres and peri-urban areas.
The main tracks and topics for platform and paper presentations of scientific and technical papers are as follows:
Challenges to service delivery
- Mega cities, rapid urbanization and water delivery
- Inadequacies of conventional approaches to water and sanitation
- Protecting groundwater as a sustainable resource
Innovation and change
- Technical options and boundaries for application
- Capacity building and peer learning – water operator partnerships
- New research and technology development
- Applying local knowledge to providing water and sanitation
Implementation and delivery
- Operating at large scale – learning from process and experience
- Developing appropriate and scaleable regulatory approaches
- Policy, norms and standards and their implications for service delivery
Abstract deadline: 01 Jan 2009
For more information go to the Conference web site
Categories: Campaigns & events · Capacity development · Mexico · Policy & legislation · Sanitation · Urban WASH · Water supply
Tagged: IWA
The World Bank has approved a US$20 million grant and a US$20 million credit to the Nicaraguan government for the Greater Managua Water and Sanitation Project (PRASMA).
The project will provide access to water supply to an additional 150,000 people and access to improved sanitation services to an additional 120,000 people. The vast majority of beneficiaries live in very poor neighborhoods in the area of Greater Managua. Priority will be given to neighborhoods or spontaneous settlements where there are good levels of community organization as well as a commitment to the environment and also to the financial sustainability of the Nicaraguan Company of Aqueducts and Sewage Systems (ENACAL) itself.
“This operation will increase the availability of water by investing in wells to be located in the south-east sectors of Managua, and also will be used to rehabilitate water networks and domestic connections that were constructed by the community, at times without adequate technical assistance -a situation that over the years has resulted in considerable water loss through leakages,” said Ruth Selma Herrera, Executive President of ENACAL.
Source: World Bank, 17 Dec 2008
Categories: Financing · Nicaragua · Water distribution
Tagged: Greater Managua Water and Sanitation Project
Approximately 1,200 people attended the opening ceremony of the First Peruvian Conference on Sanitation, PERUSAN 2008. The conference, “Proposals for Sustainable Sanitation,” is an initiative led by the Ministry of Housing, Construction, and Sanitation, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of the Environment. The international cooperation agencies forming part of the Grupo Agua support this initiative through proposals for specific sanitation activities.
Minister of Housing, Construction and Sanitation Enrique Cornejo, Environmental Minister Antonio Brack, and Health Minister Oscar Ugarte led the opening ceremony.
During the ceremony, the housing minister reported that US$2.5 billion had been invested in water and sanitation projects nationwide. “Sanitation means dignity for individuals and families,” he said.
PERUSAN 2008 was held in Lima from 25-27 November.
Official Conference Website
Source: WSP, 03 Dec 2008
Categories: Campaigns & events · Peru · Policy & legislation · Sanitation
Tagged: PERUSAN 2008, S0901-LAC
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced a new law that exempts low-income homeowners [of homes costing under 750 UF = inflation-linked unit, US$24,117] from paying [UF 30] potable water and sanitation connection costs.
The initiative will speed up coverage in non-urbanized areas by helping water and sanitation utilities expand their operations to areas that are not currently under their responsibility.
The government expects to grant 46,000 housing subsidies to low-income families in the country.
Read the government press release [scroll down to Promulgación de ley 20.307] here [in Spanish]
Source: BNAmericas [subscription site], 01 Dec 2008
Categories: Chile · Financing · Policy & legislation · Sanitation · Water supply
Tagged: low-income communities, service connection charges, subsidies
