STRIVING FOR WATER SECURITY – AN OECD PERSPECTIVE

Simon BuckleHead of Climate, Biodiversity and Water DivisionEnvironment DirectorateOECD

CEWP – Copenhagen12 May 2015

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– Too little (scarcity

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– Too much (e.g.

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– Too polluted

– Risks to ecosystems

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Risks to water security

Managing risks

Source: OECD (2014), Water Security for Better Lives, OECD Publishing, Paris

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• Integrate water investments into long-term planning

efforts

• Prioritise investments that will enhance an economy’s

resilience to water variability

• Support a diversity of investments based on robust cost-

benefit analyses

• Significantly increase investment from existing and new

sources of finance

Pathways to water security

• OECD Water Policy Dialogues

– EU Water Initiative in EECCA

– Selected countries (Brazil, the

Netherlands…)

• National Policy Dialogues - platforms

for continuous dialogue & coordination

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OECD work for water resource management in Central Asia

www.oecd.org/waterSimon.Buckle@oecd.org

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