The GEOSS Joint Asia-Africa Water Cycle Symposium

Water Cycle Observations and Integrated Water Resources Managementfrom MLIT’s perspective

Shigeo OCHI
Director-General
Water Resources Department,Water and Disaster Management Bureau,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, JAPAN

25th November, 2013
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

Cooperation in Hydrological /Metrological Observation area
Philippines

Mongolia

2Analysis of Synoptic scale

Photos from JICA

Flood Forecasting and Warning System Projectin China in the 90s

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IWRM guideline and NARBO(Network of Asian River Basin Organization)
River Basin Organization (RBO)
National, Provincialand Regional
Organizations

Regional
Knowledge Partners

DonorsNARBO members
82 organizations
from17countries
in Asianmonsoon Area

GlobalKnowledge Partners

SupportIWRM guideline at River Basin Level
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IWRM at Rio +20
Rio +20 Outcome Document “ The Future We Want”
Want” (June 2012)
Water and sanitation……………………………………………………………………
120. We reaffirm the commitments made in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementationand Millennium Declaration regarding halving by 2015 the proportion of people
without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation and the development ofintegrated water resources management and water efficiency plans, ensuring
sustainable water use. We commit to the progressive realization of access to safe andaffordable drinking water and basic sanitation for all, as necessary for poverty
eradication, women’s empowerment, and to protect human health, and tosignificantly improve the implementation of integrated water resource management
at all levels as appropriate. In this regard, we reiterate our commitments to support
these efforts in particular in developing countries through the mobilization ofresources from all sources, capacity building and technology transfer.
http://www.un.org/en/sustainablefuture/……………………………………………………………………

“Global Map and IWRM for Sustainable Development” Seminar
by MLIT, Japan at Rio +20 Japan Pavilion“Flood Management in Japan” Short Lecture
by MLIT, Japan at Rio +20 GEO booth5IWRM for Drought policy

HMNDP (High Level Meeting on National Drought Policy)
Final Declaration (March 2013)……………………………………………………………………

Need for effective drought policies

PP 16: Recalling the commitment in the outcome documentof the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20)
to significantly improve the implementation of Integrated
Water Resources Management at all levels, as appropriate.
……………………………………………………………………

http://www.hmndp.org/

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Water Resources Management and Climate Change
Changes in Annual Rainfall

Changes in Annual Maximum Snow
Depth(mm)2,100East Japan - Japan Sea side

Annual Rainfall

1,900
1,800

Large
fluctuations

1,700
1,600
1,500
1,400
1,300

Annual rainfall
5 Year average

1,200

Trend

1,100
1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

(Note)
1. Prepared by the Water Resources Department of the Ministry ofLand, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism based on the Japan
Meteorological Agency database.
2. Calculated average of 51 locations of Japan nationwide.
3. The trend is per regression curve.
4. The number of observation points varies due to lack of data(Source) Water Resources in Japan 2011.

Ratio to Average maximum snow depth (1981-2010) (%)

2,000
Trend=-11.2%/10 years

Decreasing
trendyear(Note)
1. Prepared by the Water Resources Department of the Ministry ofLand, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism based on the Japan
Meteorological Agency report 2012.
2. Bar graph: Average maximum snow depth (1981-2010) Ratio (%)
3. Blue line: 5 year moving average of deflection

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Expectation for GEOSS/AWCI and AfWCCI• We expect that AWCI and AfWCCI will achieve
their goals.
• We, MLIT, would like to collaborate withspecialists of global earth observation atinternational conferences related to water
resources.

Thank you!
8Yagisawa dam in autumn