Greeting From Secretariat
Road Show CKNet-INA To Strengthen Networking
Congeniality road show to visit new CKNet-INA members was initiated by Jan TL Yap as Network manager. The main objective is to introduce the concept of Knowledge Networking and introducing CKNet-INA to the other staff members of the members institute. Further, the trip is a good opportunity to start a dialogue with the members to listen to the expectations of the members as a member of our network.
A growing number of CKNet-INA registered members and a new network manager
Water Industry Achievement Awards 2011
Climate Change Will Hit Us First Through Water
Water As Big Business
Beyond civic pride, water has become big business. Somehow a necessity of life has become a commodity. Corporations are jumping on the opportunity. According to a CBC series on the privatization of water , “In the past ten years, three giant global corporations have quietly assumed control over the water supplied to almost 300 million people in every continent of the world,”
UN Human Rights Council affirms that right to water and sanitation is legally binding
The UN Human Rights Council has finally recognised the right to water and sanitation as legally binding in international law, in a landmark decision adopted on 30 September 2010.According to the UN Independent Expert on human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, “this means that for the UN, the right to water and sanitation, is contained in existing human rights treaties and is therefore legally binding”.
Indonesia, Jakarta: struggling to provide clean water to all
The city of Jakarta, with a population of nine million people, is struggling to provide clean water to all its residents. In some poor neighbourhoods international organisations like Mercy Corps and its Communal Master Meter project (small community-managed piped water system), are trying to help. However, their impact is minimal because the infrastructure problems are so complex and expensive to fix.
Coastal areas may disappear in coming decades
Four
districts on the north coast of Jakarta could be submerged within a
century if the city administration does not address environmental issues
in its spatial planning policies, an expert said.
“Research
shows that the sea level on Jakarta’s coast has increased at a rate of
57 millimeters per year because of the effects of global warming on the
polar ice caps,” Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) oceanology
department chief Safwan Hadi said Friday.
The districts of
Pademangan, Penjaringan, Tanjung Priok and Cilincing in North Jakarta
would be flooded by a half-meter of sea water by 2100, Safwan said.
Improve the Engangement Private Sectors in Water and Sanitation Issues
In order to build partnership and introduce the water and sanitation issues to private sectors. Indonesian water and sanitation network in collaboration with the Bapenas and facilitated by WASPOLA had invited CSR officers for a dialogue. The dialogue was initiated in order to enhance the involvement and to build a strong synergy among CSRs. Nowadays, CSR programs are still running on their own, they are not yet integrated.
Another most possibly important is how to get attention from the private sectors to be involved in the development and decentralization of drinking water services and sanitation. Among others, drinking water services, waste management issues, river management, low awareness of healthy living behavior and liquid waste. The lack of CSR activities in these sectors is likely due to the issues that have not been popular among CSR players. Therefore, it's expected in the future business, water and sanitaiton issues will be more adopted in their CSR programs. Those, will bring impact in order to help the Indonesian government to achieve MDGs 2015 and National Mid Term Development Planprograms 2010-2014.
