REGIONAL PROCESS SESSION DESCRIPTION FORM 2.
10TH WORLD WATER FORUM
This Regional Session Description Form 2 is for the specified program of the session. Please
complete this form no later than 10th of March 2024.
*The Regional session description 1 (online form) is separately requested for the regional session
coordinators to deliver a concise session outline with the contact info and the logistical requests.
Regional Session Code and Title:
RP3
Smart Water Management for Resilience and Inclusive Water Services
Date and time : 21 May, 14.50 - 16.20 Denpasar local time
Venue and meeting room: BICC, 1st floor, Jakarta A-B
Regional Session Coordinators (Name, Position, Organization, email, mobile number):
Fany Wedahuditama/Regional Coordinator/GWPSEA/fany.wedahuditama@gwpsea.org/+6281808279066
Ms. Minkyeng Park/Manager/ KOMEC/min58@kwater.or.kr
Mr. Muhammad Irfan Saleh/Director/BAPPENAS/mirfans@bappenas.go.id /+6281220251032
Mr. Isnaeni/Deputy Director/MPWH/+6281226360969 / isnaeni.hartanto@pu.go.id
Sub-Regional Session Description including objectives and expected outcomes (500 words maximum):Water scarcity is a growing issue. According to several UN reports, it will directly affect nearly 20% of thehuman population by 2025. By 2040, roughly 1 in 4 children worldwide will be living in areas of extremely
high-water stress. This is not limited to developing countries. Climate change will definitely change thewater regime. The need for adaptation is unavoidable. The dynamic process of adaptation requires a
reliable data and information for decision-making. Thus, the need for smart systems to help the decisionmaking process needs to be adopted for many countries in their process to adapt with climate change andfuture uncertainties. Accordingly, Smart Water Management is a critical requirement to ensure resilienceand inclusive water services.
Smart water management systems can provide a more resilient and efficient water supply system, reducing
costs and improving sustainability. Furthermore, smart water management aims to guide the utilization ofwater in a manner that drives efficiency, sufficiency, and sustainability by integrating innovativetechnologies such as sensors, smart water metering, information systems, data acquisition and decision
support systems. Achieving water security, therefore, requires innovative ways to address the delivery of aclean and steady supply of water while optimizing the operation, maintenance, and management of waterutility companies. Smart water management systems are one of the strongest interventions in achieving
water security. In a broader range, smart water management also covers irrigation, flood control, and water
allocation for the environment. Water management, in many countries, is under various management
bodies/agencies. Data and information are often scattered and unintegrated. It is crucial to manage dataand information in a more comprehensive manner. Smart water management must be user oriented. It mustbe transparent, accessible, and understandable.
This session will discuss country-wide scale best practices of smart water management employed bycountries amid their limited resources and growing development and climate change pressures. Singapore,Korea, Japan, Australia, and Netherlands are among the countries that have shown exemplary practices insmart water management in such challenging situations that can be referred by developing countries inSoutheast Asia. It is therefore important to share the stages of developing smart water management thatcan ensure higher resiliencies for all.
The objectives of this session are:a.
b.

To examine the critical elements of transforming conventional water management into smart watermanagement through country sharing in implementing Smart Water Management amid challenging
situations.
To explore pathways toward systemic change, innovation, and meaningful collaboration fortransformational, resilience and sustainable smart water management in Southeast Asian countries.

Outcomes:
Individual innovations - united effort to realize smart water management in Southeast Asia facilitatedachieving SDGs.
Concrete solutions:
SEA Smart Water Management Support Facility
Follow up linkages with events:•GWP SEA – Innovative Solutions for Water Secure World and Sustainable Development WebinarSeries•
GWP SEA – Integrated Water Security Open Program•GWP SEA – SEA Catchment Knowledge Hub (piloted first in Indonesia – in Collaboration withIndonesia Water Coalition)•KOMEC – Development of the Water-related Decision Support System Utilizing the Digital
Technology in the Mekong Region Project• KOMEC – Mekong-Korea International Forum (Theme: Climate Resilience through Digital Water
Management in the Mekong Region)•KOMEC and BAPPENAS please add if any.

Detailed Regional Session Plan:ESTIMATED TIMINGITEM DESCRIPTION / ROLE

03”
07”

Opening remarks
Keynote speech

10”

Experience of Korea: Kwater’s Water Loss
Management
Experience of Japan
Topic: Wastewater
management

10”

10”

Experience of Malaysia
Topic: National Water
Balance System -DSS forwater resource managers

10”

Experience of Thailand
Topic: Automation system
for Irrigation Project10”

Experience of Indonesia
Topic: Irrigation
Modernization

SPEAKERSSPEAKERS STATUS(OK OR TBC)

Chairman of GWP SEA
Vice Chair of APWF (Prof.
Eduardo Araral, Jr.)K-Water (Dr. Eunher Shin –Principal Researcher)

Confirmed
Confirmed

Mr. Makoto KUDO (Director forOverseas Projects of Water
Supply and Sewerage; Ministryof Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism, Japan
Dato' Ir Rozman bin Mohamad
Director, Division of Water
Resources Management andHydrology
Department of Irrigation andDrainage (DID), Malaysia
Sucharit Koontanakulvong –Executive Director, National
Research Council of Thailand(NRCT) – Prof.
Dr. Ismail Widadi, S.T., M.Sc. Director of Irrigation andWetland - Ministry of Public
Works and Housing ofIndonesia

Confirmed

Confirmed

Confirmed

Confirmed

Confirmed

10”

Experience of Vietnam(Danang City)
Topic: Domestic watermanagement

Dr.Pham Ngoc Bao
Deputy Director, Adaptationand Water Area, Institute for
Global Environment Strategies(IGES)

Confirmed

15”

Moderated Q&AConfirmed

05”

Summary & Closing

KOMEC (Dr. Sangyoung Park –Executive Director)
Dr. Yongdeok Cho, Secretary
General of Asia Water Council(AWC)
Mr. Muhammad Irfan Saleh,
Director of Water Resources,
BAPPENAS
Alternative:
Dr. Mochammad Amron,
Chairman of GWP Indonesia

Cancelled due toconflict schedulewith AWC board
meeting.
To be confirmed
To be confirmed