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Cleaning up the Mess by John Roberts Matter HARSH “It depends on your reading habits. When I open a book, ASSESSMENT: I start reading at the footnotes.” Worldwatch Institute reports on the state of – Michel Camdessus, former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, reacting the world to complaints that his report backs big dams and relegates the concerns of the World – p. 7 Commission on Dams to a footnote. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2003 NEWSPAPER OF THE 3RD WORLD WATER FORUM ~ KYOTO, SHIGA & OSAKA, JAPAN VOLUME 1, ISSUE 7 Cleaning Up the Mess by John Roberts matter. The Bush administration says it will soon award big More than 20 years of conflict supervisory reconstruction con- in the Gulf demonstrate the tracts to US companies. Reports need for a new Geneva from Washington say the US Convention to protect the envi- does not envisage a major role ronment, says Klaus Toepfer, for the UN, or even American executive director of the United NGOs, in a post-Saddam Iraq. Nations Environment Program Most UN agencies withdrew (UNEP). from Iraq hours before the “We have learned again and United States launched its again that the environment can attack. be used as a weapon,” Mr. The Bush administration’s Toepfer says. “The conse- decision to sideline the UN in quences of this are extremely the reconstruction of a post- serious, and not only for the Saddam Iraq, following its ear- people living there.” lier move to ignore the Security Mr. Toepfer says he is par- Council in deciding to attack the ticularly concerned about water, country, raises questions about arable land and the loss of bio- the future of the United Nations diversity. “We are very, very itself. Some participants at the convinced that this [deliberate 3rd World Water Forum hope destruction of environment in the US may not be able to war] is a crime against humani- shoulder the burden of recon- Protestors at the forum in Kyoto ty.” struction on its own, or be will- Mr. Toepfer says UNEP is ing to pay the political price assessing Iraq’s most urgent involved. MINISTERS BICKER OVER DECLARATION needs post-Saddam Hussein. “The United States is big, Like other UN agencies, UNEP but is it big enough? Are they Senior government officials at the by Ruud Kreutzer “more concerned with saving face would be ready to start work in going to bring every USAID 3rd World Water Forum bickered than writing a strong message”, Iraq “within days” of the war [Agency for International over the draft text of the ministerial tion climate change and promotion appear reluctant to make too many ending. Development] officer from declaration into the early hours of of public-private partnerships. “I changes to the text they spent such But whether they will get Friday morning, with the European will not return to The Hague with- a long time drafting. the chance is a very different (continued on page 2) Union demanding that the state- out these changes made. Nobody is Ms. Van Ardenne courted fur- ment tackle controversial political waiting for another vague state- ther controversy by saying there issues. ment,” Ms. Van Ardenne says. was no need to organize another Several delegations, including EU officials, seemingly back- World Water Forum. The Contents RAISING THE the European Union, India, Turkey ing Ms. Van Ardenne’s position Netherlands is one of the forum’s and Brazil, expressed reservations said the text should further empha- main financial backers. News.........................2, 3 PROFILE: Development ................4 about the text despite a Japanese size poverty eradication. “We know what has to be done the UN’s Year of assertion that the final draft had Turkey reportedly objects to the after three forum meetings. These Competition..................5 been adopted at the late-night meet- absence of any reference to dams in huge gatherings cost a lot of Agenda ........................ 6 Freshwater ing. the chapter on the impact of floods money, but don’t produce an extra Environment.................7 – p. 4 Dutch Development Co-opera- and droughts. drop of water for the poor,” Ms. Photos...........................8 tion Minister Agnes van Ardenne The Japanese hosts, who Van Ardenne says. criticized the text for failing to men- according to one water official are NEWS Water Forum Shimbun • Saturday, March 22, 2003 • Page 2 (continued from page 1) BRAINSTORMING? MORE LIKE MINDBOGGLING elsewhere in the world to Iraq? What will that do to its projects by Rupert Wright session,” he informed us. “We little less than stellar. For exam- benches we sat back and elsewhere? The Americans will are lucky to have Delli ple, somebody called Elliot looked smug. We had it right. need to ensure that they keep Forum participants got their Priscoli from the US Army Anthony Morley from the But no, we had it very wrong. their friends across the globe. chance to come face to face with us. No one comes near Department of the Few people talked about lack It’s a huge logistical problem,” with ministers yesterday for him on brainstorming skills.” Environment, was representing of money or lack of water. one participant said. the first time. In a session Then we were told to get Britain. He is not very well They talked about water as a UN agencies at the forum, in called Water and Poverty, they down to business and answer the known in Japan. Nobody human right. The concern that line with a statement on were asked to list the three question about water and pover- knows him in Britain. In fact, the World Trade Organization Thursday by UN Secretary- most important challenges in ty. While the tables were talking his wife probably does not could undermine the ability of General Kofi Annan that the UN water and poverty. This ses- to each other, other press repre- know he was here. We were countries to regulate water would do whatever it can to sion was billed as the “first sentatives and I came up with the also told that Reza Ardakanian, properly. How gender issues assist the Iraqi people, stress attempt in history to organize answer. We thought money should be central to decision- their readiness to resume dialogue between decision would solve the poverty issue, “If you take all making about water. How humanitarian work in Iraq as makers and stakeholders”. and that water would solve the there should be more partici- well as to engage in long-term The room was full of more scarcity issue. Pretty easy, we the words pation in decision-making. reconstruction. than 30 tables, with up to eight thought. But the dialogue Local authorities should be “The United Nations will people at each table. Our com- seemed to be going on at all the upstream, there empowered. Women and girls have to come in with humanitar- pere for this event introduced tables. Perhaps they were now should be educated. And ian aid,” says Ian Johnson, vice himself. discussing when to eat the bis- will be no words Martians should be made of president of environmentally “Hi, my name is Delli,” he cuits? We did not have any bis- left for those marzipan and every Tuesday sustainable development at the said. “We have what seems to cuits, which seemed to us quite a should be a holiday. Actually, World Bank. “Then it will be up be an impossible task ahead of serious matter. people we made those last two up. to the UN development agencies us.” He made a plea for people I took advantage of the So there it was. It was all to see how we can move from not to speak too much. “If you hubbub to ask Mr. Pescolli downstream.” terribly exciting, there was humanitarian to development take all the words upstream, about his military background. quite a buzz in the room. Quite aid. This is what we did in East there will be no words left for He was rather vague. “Better what it achieved nobody was Timor, the Balkans, and those people downstream.” to say that I am editor-in-chief too sure. But as an exercise in Then he talked some more. of Water Policy.” the Iranian minister of Energy, democracy, it seemed a lot When he stopped, the He let the tables talk on for was set to be here, but we more popular than another Japanese Senior Vice Minister twenty minutes, longer than I couldn’t see him. Maybe other event that was taking place in of Land, Infrastructure and thought necessary. There had matters had detained him. the Middle East at the same Transport, Kouki Chouma, obviously been a lot of high- Suddenly we were off. time, also aimed at bringing came to the microphone. level dialogue, even though Each table was asked to give power to the people. “This is a brainstorming some of the ministers looked a their answers. On the press Four dams were construct- ed in Sudan under his tenure. Dam Talks “Waste of Time” They serve the Geriza Irrigation Scheme, the largest by Ruud Kreutzer that a planned dam on Japan’s whether dams are good or bad single project of its kind in the Kawabe River would only ben- are an exercise in futility. world. The Sudanese econo- Joining a debate on the neces- efit local construction tycoons. “Dams are the lifeline of my depends on them for half Anna Tibaijuka sity of dams, Sudan’s Yousif Absent because his flight my country,” said Mr. Ahmed, the country’s electricity. With Fadlalla Ahmed grabbed the from Colorado had been who was until recently only four months of rain a Afghanistan.” microphone to tell participants delayed, US environmentalist Sudan’s official in charge of year, the man-made lakes pro- UN-Habitat, the biggest of the 3rd World Water Forum David Wegner declared in a dam construction.
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