Stockholm International Water Institute » Andy Bullock http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:20:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Regional Water Intelligence Report Central Asia http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-central-asia/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-central-asia/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:45:46 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-central-asia/ Water is an increasingly strategic resource in the Central Asian region for economic and social development. Water cuts across critical issues such as food and fibre production, energy generation, environmental sustainability and human security.

This paper highlights these issues and their inter-linkages and targets the Aral Sea Basin, with focus on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Afghanistan (also a part of the basin) and influential neighboring countries like China and Russia are part of the regional analysis.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/regional-water-intelligence-report-central-asia/feed/ 0 The Global Financial and Economic Crisis and the Water Sector http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-global-financial-and-economic-crisis-and-the-water-sector/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-global-financial-and-economic-crisis-and-the-water-sector/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:44:17 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/the-global-financial-and-economic-crisis-and-the-water-sector/ This report examines the impact of the financial crisis since 2007 and relates this to the impact of the food price crisis beginning one year earlier. It examines the status and trends in the financing of water in Africa and assesses the deficiencies of the current model that has created inadequate financial flows.

Suggestions for Sida to consider in framing its response to the immediate financial troubles are presented, and – looking beyond these – the underlying needs of Africa’s water resources management, services and governance through levers of change are also addressed.

Click here to read the executive summary.

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