Cooperative Project
OECD Cooperative Project
National Dialogue on Water in Asia (2020-2026)
A Collaboration of the MOE-OECD-AWC
Overview
The collaboration should firmly establish the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, the OECD and AWC as key project partners that provide guidance on water-related policies, financing approaches, institutional arrangements and technologies that can facilitate achievement of water-related SDGs in Asia. The purpose of the collaboration is to work with governments and stakeholders to identify policies and financing approaches that can scale up and secure financing for water-related investments.
The key partners work with host country to examine and address key water challenges by identifying:
- ✓ policy priorities, including priority areas for water-related investment
- ✓ options to address financing needs and enhance financing capacities, and
- ✓ technologies and innovation in line with policy priorities, financing strategies and capacities
UNDP Cooperative Project
Enhancing Integrated Water Management and Climate Resilience in Vulnerable Urban Areas of the Mekong River Basin (2021-2025)
A Collaboration of the MOE-UNDP-AWC
Overview
The Mekong River and its tributaries are waterways critical to the economy and food supply chains of both Lao PDR and Cambodia. However, these waterways also present a great risk posed by flooding and dry periods – events that are becoming more erratic, longer, and more intense with the compounding effects of anthropogenic climate change.
Through the collaboration of the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, the UNDP and AWC, this project aims to strengthen climate and disaster resilience of people and communities in vulnerable regions of Lao PDR and Cambodia through improved risk and vulnerability assessment and advancing an integrated approach to water resources management.
The project comprises of a set of measures that span three key outputs:
- ✓ Water-related climate risks assessed in the priority river basins
- ✓ Enabling environment for climate risk-informed integrated water resources management developed.
- ✓ Funding proposal for priority risk reduction measures developed.
GCF Cooperative Project
Establishment AI-based Flood Forecasting-Warning System for the Mekong River Tributary Basins (3 Years)
A Collaboration of GCF-AWC
Overview
The overall objective of this project is to establish an AIbased Flood Forecasting and Warning system in the Mekong River Tributary Basin to enable effective risk reduction measures.
Flood and drought forecasting systems are existing in the Mekong River basin, but these systems do not cover the entire basin area and prediction accuracy is inadequate.
To address these challenges, AWC is now developing a GCF-Funding Program to establish an AI-based Integrated Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System in the Mekong Tributary Basin.
GGGI Cooperative Project
Strengthening Climate Resilience through Smart Techniques in Flood and Drought Management in Central Asia (2024-2027)
A Collaboration of the GGGI-AWC
Overview
The overall objective of the Project is to strengthen the climate and disaster resilience of people and communities in vulnerable regions of Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan through integrated water resources management techniques.
In 10th of July 2024, AWC signed up a Partnership Agreement with GGGI for the project and AWC’s main task is Piloting of innovative smart water pumping and water gates systems at one selected location in and around Talas-Alatau and Ferghana ranges.
This shall include an automated water gate and a pumping station based on data analyzed using the surveillance. Excess surface water collected from floods will be stored in a designated pond for irrigation purpose during drought seasons, to support rural employment.
AWC will lead for Water-related disaster risk management strengthened by piloting of comprehensive smart water pumping and water gates systems.
IWRA Cooperative Project
Smart Water Cities Project (2020-2023)
A Collaboration of the IWRA-K-water-AWC
Overview
On 8th July 2020 the Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water), the Asia Water Council (AWC) and the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) destined to establish the basis for a project dedicated to the analysis of smart water solutions for a new urban development being built near the city of Busan in the Republic of Korea: the Busan Eco Delta City (BEDC). The project is divided into three phases, each with their own objectives and tasks as below, and was completed over three years, from July 2020 to August 2023.
| PHASE 1 Identifying Smart Water Cities |
PHASE 2 Developing Standards |
PHASE 3 Certification |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 | Jan 2022 – Dec 2022 | Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 |
| Goal | Analysis of Smart Water Cities, global agenda, regional/national policies and strategies, global standards frameworks and certification schemes and case studies | Development of KPIs for Smart Water City and certification protocols | Pilot testing of the certification scheme and guidelines |
Achievements
The Smart Water City KPIs and global certification system derived from the project were demonstrated in one city each in Korea (BEDC) and overseas (Semarang City, Indonesia), and the pilot certification was completed on December 2023.
This enabled AWC to win the first Crystal Drop Award in Asia in September '23 to promote the smart water city certification scheme to the international community.