Progress of WEPA Activities in 2019
8 January, 2020

Bijon Kumar Mitra
WEPA secretariat

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Framework of the WEPA Activities
Identifying and addressing critical issues
through sharing experiences and providing
technical support

Facilitating knowledge exchange anddialogues, thereby building capacity
Thematic workshops

Annual Meetings

Bilateral Dialogues
Action Program

Facilitating cooperation with international organizations and donor agencies

Outreach

Webdatabase

WEPA Outlook+ Other Publications

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Inputs to international conferencessuch as the World Water Forum2

Snapshots of WEPA activities since 2004

3WEPA Annual meetings:15
 WEPA inception workshop,
2004
 1st,6th, 9th, 14th Annualmeeting 11th Annual meeting, 5th, 12th Annual meeting, 2nd, 15th Annual meeting, 8th Annual meeting 7th Annual meeting, 4th Annual meeting, 10th Annual meeting,4 13th Annual meeting,4Thematic workshops: to exchange experiences
WS Themes
3IndWW 2nd International WS
Topic: Climate change impact onwater environment Decentralized WWT2

Climatechange

Urbanization 1DoWW

DEWATs22
 International workshop on
Industrial Wastewater International WS on
industrial wastewater
management, 2020

 6th International WS
Topic: WEPA Workshop on
Wastewater Management5 1st International WS
Topic: urbanization andwater quality; climatechange impacts to thewater environment option

 4th International WS
Topic: DWATs

 5th International WS
Topic: Domestic WW 6th Int. WS 3rd International WS
Topic: policy responses
on water quality
targets; water quality
management in thecontext of basin
management; anddomestic wastewater
treatment.
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WEPA Action Program: 3Year

Country

Title

Outcomes

2014 Viet Nam

Waste and Wastewater
Management of Pig Farms inViet Nam

Establishment of Effl uent Standardfor Livestock Industry (QVCN622016/BTNMT)(2016)2015 Sri Lanka

Improving Industrial Waste andWastewater Management in
Gampaha District, Sri Lanka

Provision to legalise the industrial
siting procedure as amendment
to National Environmental Act
No.47 of 1980 (planned)

2018 Indonesia

Application of Total Maximum
Daily Loads (TMDLs) for
Effl uent Discharge Permit andCapacity Building for Local
Offi cials to Implement theTMDLs in Indonesia

Establishment of new regulation for
TMDLs in Indonesia

6WEPA database
Total users 536,258 (as of 2018)
140,000
120,000
100,000
80,00060,00040,00020,000
02014

2015

2016

2017

2018
Philippines
Malaysia

United StatesIndia
NepalAustralia
JapanThailand

Cambodia
Canadahttp://www.wepa-db.net/database.html

Distribution of users (>60%7Main Activities in 2019

8WEPA International Workshop, 2019
Theme: Roles of decentralized wastewater and septage management inaddressing the challenges and accelerating the progress of Sustainable
Development Goal 6 (SDG6) in Asia
When: 21 February 2019
Where: Tokyo
Shared experiences from China, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam

9914th Annual Meeting
When: 22-23 February 2019
Where: Tokyo• Shared Japan’s technical measures for effective wastewater treatment• Shared progress of WEPA activities• and exchange updates of the water environment governance in the WEPAcountries

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Consultation meeting on Future Plan in the 4th Phase
When: 23 February 2019
Where: Tokyo

Group discussion to discuss WEPA activity plan in the 4th Phase

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Action Program in Indonesia (ongoing)‘Application of Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for improving the water
quality of the Citarum River’
WEPA Action Program in JFY2019
 To examine good practices and lessons learned regarding the introduction andimplementation of TMDLs regulation around the world (particularly from theimplementation of TPLCS in Japan), including calculating and allocating methods ofpollution discharge loads from both point and non-point sources of pollution; theapplication of economic instruments such as water quality trading for water pollution
control ; and to discuss on how these practices or lessons learned can be applied in thecase of Indonesia in general and in Citarum river in particular.
 To provide inputs to the established Strategies and Technical Guidelines for theImplementation of TMDLs in Indonesia
Expected outcome Establishment of long-term Strategies and development of a new Technical Guidelines
for the Implementation of TMDLs in Indonesia (attachments of the ministerialregulation)
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Framework for cooperation between MOEJ and MOEF
Ministry of theEnvironment, Japan（MOEJ)

Mutual Agreement

The Ministry ofEnvironment andForestry of the Republicof Indonesia (KLHK)

Three activities (WEPA, Technical assistance, Intercity cooperation) will
be included under bilateral cooperation framework.

【WEPA】
 Implementation of an action
program on water environment
improvement of Citarum River
compiled by KLHK will besupported.
• Creating a list of pollution load andimplementing effective effluent
regulations at high pollution loadarea.
• Workshops for Indonesian local
governments to introduce
appropriate technology, and shareknowledge and/or know-how ofenforcement and implementationof regulations including total dailyload regulations

Target: Bandung district, etc.

【Technical assistance】
 Study of appropriate wastewater
treatment technology for local
textile industries will beconducted.
 The results of the study will beshared among stakeholders inCitarum River Basin, so that theapplication of demonstrated
technology is considered byIndonesian side for wastewater
gathering treatment facilities inindustrial area and/or smallmiddle size industrial factories.

Target: Cimahi city, etc.

【Intercity cooperation】
 Capacity building for Indonesian
local governments such as training
and lecture by Japanese local
governments will be conducted.
 A support of formulating a masterplan for water quality management
through understanding actual
conditions of wastewater
management in Citarum River Basinwill be supported.
 Know-how, knowledge andexperiences will be shared in jointcommittee among Indonesian local
governments in Citarum River
Basin.

Target: Bandung city,Kawasakicity,etc.on
Proper waste management, including waste to energy being promoted under the Japan – Indonesia JointCommittee
Meeting
Waste to Energy, contributes to improve the water quality of Citarum River.

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Consultation meeting and filed visit on Action Programin Indonesia
When: 21-24 Oct., 2019
Where: Jakarta and Bandung•••

Meeting with MOEF to understand real needs of supports from WEPA
Meeting with experts issues and challenges
Visit of hotspots of Citaram River

Expected outcome: Evidence based inputs to the TMDL Guidelines1414

Preparation for the next WEPA Action Program (FY 2020)

A consultation meeting was organized on 11-12 December, 2019 in PhnomPenh• Sharing Japanese experience on Lake water environment management• Discuss issues of water environment management in Tonle Sap• Discussion on the draft proposal for the WEPA Action Program• Visit of Tonle Sap Great Lake

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Questionnaire survey on the progress of water governancein WEPA partner countries
Objectives
1. To understand the progress/status of the water governance of the WEPA partnercounties including the progress of monitoring, the status of setting effluent standard aswell as its compliance, and the enforcement of related legal systems, etc.
2. To examine and identify the feasible area of support to further improve the water
governance of WEPA countries.

Questionnaire survey on the progress of water governancein WEPA partner countries
Approach:
Drafting questionnaire with full consideration of comments
received in the 14th WEPA Annual meeting

Send out the draft questionnaire to the selected WEPA countries totest the questionnaire
Incorporate feedback from the WEPA focal points and finalize the questionnaire

Sending out the questionnaire to all WEPA focal points in each member country

Analysis state and progress of water environment governance in WEPA countries

Questionnaire survey on the progress of water governancein WEPA partner countries
The questionnaire has been designed in accordance with thebroad framework of the water environment governance.

1. Legal framework
2. Monitoring framework
3. Enforcement framework
4. Institutional frameworkSome results of questionnaire survey
1. LEGAL FRAMEWORK
1.1. Umbrella legislation for water environment managementHas umbrella0 legislation?

0Time of enactment

Revisions since enacted

567813Yes

NoNo response

Before 2004

2004-2019

No response

Yes

NoNo responseSome results of questionnaire survey
1. LEGAL FRAMEWORK

1.2. Water quality management instruments
State of water quality standards
Yes

NoTime of approval of WQS

No response
Before 2004

Coasta water quality
standard84

1

Coastal WQS

2Groundwater quality
standard

84

1

GWQS

21 1

SWQS

Surface water quality
standard

1105Percent

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2004-2019565065

No of WEPA countries10Some results of questionnaire survey
2. Monitoring Framework
2.1. Number of water quality monitoring station

Before 2004
10000
1000
100
1015001353

20196625375

27* Data not available before 2004

2417*

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Thank you very much

For further contact: WEPA Secretariat
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies,
2108-11 Kamiyamaguchi
Hayama, Japan 240-0115
E-mail: wepa-secretariat@iges.or.jp