The Fourth Asia Pacific Water Summit
Kumamoto. Japan, April 23-24, 2022

Yoshiro Mori, President of the APWFand former Prime Minister, Japan

Emperor and Empress of JAPAN

Antonio Guterres, UNSG

Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister, Japan

17 Heads of State and Government, including Presidents, Prime Ministers and Deputy Presidents,
as well as 19 government ministers, who attended either in person, virtually, or via video message.

Kumamoto Declaration• Require transformation into quality-oriented societies that are resilient, sustainable, and inclusive.
• Improve governance, close the financial gap and appeal to the science and technology community.
• Explore what role science and technology should play in the cross-sectoral decision-making of leaders.

Chair’s Summary• Promote water cycle consilience by accelerating the Open Science policy, particularly focusing on
observation, modeling and data integration;

Summary
ReportQuality-oriented
Finance
Integration Session Society
1: Science and Technology

GovernanceObservation
Integration
Sustained
Education
Framework

ModelIntegration
Water Cycle
Consilience

Evidence-based
Decision Making

Data Integration& Analysis

Cross-SDGs Coordination
Water-related Disasters-Climate/Ecosystem/Urban/Water/Food/Energy/QoL

Open Science

The Fourth Asia Pacific Water Summit
Kumamoto. Japan, April 23-24, 2022

Yoshiro Mori, President of the APWFand former Prime Minister, Japan

Emperor and Empress of JAPAN

Antonio Guterres, UNSG

Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister, Japan

17 Heads of State and Government, including Presidents, Prime Ministers and Deputy Presidents,
as well as 19 government ministers, who attended either in person, virtually, or via video message.

Kumamoto Declaration• Require transformation into quality-oriented societies that are resilient, sustainable, and inclusive.
• Improve governance, close the financial gap and appeal to the science and technology community.
• Explore what role science and technology should play in the cross-sectoral decision-making of leaders.

Chair’s Summary• Promote water cycle consilience by accelerating the Open Science policy, particularly focusing on
observation, modeling and data integration;• Foster "Facilitators," that is, catalytic beings who can lead the way toward resolving problems byproviding professional advice on-site using a broad range of scientific and indigenous knowledge;

SocietyOn-site Stakeholders

Fresh learning byintegrated scientificknowledge
User needs and local
data and knowledge

Filling Gap• trust-based relationship• causes and structure of onsite problem• local implications of dataand information
Maximum• goals, possible solutions, Useand governance• on-site stakeholders’
responsibilities• convincing

Online Synthesis
System for
Sustainability andResilience(OSS-SR)

Facilitator

not just as“a master of ceremony"
but as"catalytic beings”
Newperspective

ScienceCommunity

Socio-economic survey dataand statistics with large variety
and strict confidentiality.

Supporting consilienceby providing information
Proposing a new framework

Observation,monitoring andprediction data withlarge volume & highthroughput.

Functions• Exploration, collection, archiveand search of scientificinformation in mother tongues• Prediction and simulation, andvisualization• Data integration, information
fusion• Coordination of various
disciplines• Mutual risk communication
between society and sciencecommunity

The Fourth Asia Pacific Water Summit
Kumamoto. Japan, April 23-24, 2022

Yoshiro Mori, President of the APWF
and former Prime Minister, Japan

Emperor and Empress of JAPAN

Antonio Guterres, UNSG

Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister, Japan17 Heads of State and Government, including Presidents, Prime Ministers and Deputy Presidents,
as well as 19 government ministers, who attended either in person, virtually, or via video message.

Kumamoto Declaration• Require transformation into quality-oriented societies that are resilient, sustainable, and inclusive.
• Improve governance, close the financial gap and appeal to the science and technology community.
• Explore what role science and technology should play in the cross-sectoral decision-making of leaders.

Chair’s Summary• Promote water cycle consilience by accelerating the Open Science policy, particularly focusing on
observation, modeling and data integration;• Foster "Facilitators," that is, catalytic beings who can lead the way toward resolving problems byproviding professional advice on-site using a broad range of scientific and indigenous knowledge;• Work together beyond disciplines and sectors among different levels while taking an end-to-end
approach.

End to End Approach on Climate Change Adaptation
Governance

Science & Technology
Scientific Approach
ClimateModelOutputs

IntegratedObserved
Data Sets

Quantifying
Uncertainty

Adaptation
options

Environment

EarlywarningSocioeconomics
Culture &history
Regimeshift

Monitoring
evaluation

Innovativetechnology- Floodcontrol- quality
controlLand use
Contingency
Planning

Finance

EO

EO

EO

Implementation

Bias
Correction

Extremeevents

DecisionmakingDownscaling

Water
simulation,
prediction &management
systemflood
irrigationhydro power
water supply
water quality
Urban sewage
ground waterdrought

Socio-economical Approach

Impact assessment

Climatology
Check

Engineering Approach

The Fourth Asia Pacific Water Summit
Kumamoto. Japan, April 23-24, 2022

Yoshiro Mori, President of the APWF
and former Prime Minister, JapanEmperor and Empress of JAPAN

Antonio Guterres, UNSG

Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister, Japan

17 Heads of State and Government, including Presidents, Prime Ministers and Deputy Presidents,
as well as 19 government ministers, who attended either in person, virtually, or via video message.

Kumamoto Declaration• Require transformation into quality-oriented societies that are resilient, sustainable, and inclusive.
• Improve governance, close the financial gap and appeal to the science and technology community.
• Explore what role science and technology should play in the cross-sectoral decision-making of leaders.

Chair’s Summary• Promote water cycle consilience by accelerating the Open Science policy, particularly focusing on
observation, modeling and data integration;• Foster "Facilitators," that is, catalytic beings who can lead the way toward resolving problems byproviding professional advice on-site using a broad range of scientific and indigenous knowledge;• Work together beyond disciplines and sectors among different levels while taking an end-to-end
approach.