Days

This day will highlight the Cooperative analysis at the river basin scale as a key objective, focusing on adaptation and mitigation options to propose and support mutually agreed policies to advance a “do no harm” approach. For example, the Action for Water Adaptation and Resilience (AWARe) initiative contributes to filling this gap by fostering South-South collaboration to exchange experiences and expertise and building capacities on integrated planning at a basin scale. The focus is on the African context as a start, and we foresee the potential for replication in other regions.
Under this Day, Cairo Water Week (CWW) will cover the topics (but are not limited to):
• Vulnerability and impact assessment in transboundary river basins
• Basin-wide adaptation and Integrated climate change strategies
• Co-developing regional/continental virtual water agreements.
• Data exchange for developing basin wide IWRM plans.
• Basin-wide strategies to promote low-emission water and energy sources

This day will focuses on supporting the achieved environmental and economic co-benefits via proper water management to support a growing economy. In addition, addressing water management challenges and opportunities with submissions on measures of decoupling economic growth from governing policies, partnerships, research, and innovation. It also will highlight the integrated water and climate approach and proper recognition of the role of water for informed decision-making in climate change mitigation and adaptation action.
Under this Day, the CWW will cover the topics (but not limited to):
• Adaptation and mitigation options to support mutually agreed policy.
• Cooperation as a key to climate change adaptation and its co-benefits.
• Solutions to integrate water and climate action to leverage co-benefits of adaptation.
• Promoting measures to decouple economic growth from freshwater use and degradation.
• Mobilizing funds for actions related to technical research to achieve economic growth.

This day will highlight how green water is accounted for in developing national utilization plans, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and protecting and restoring freshwater ecosystems. Green water can be mismanaged or used unproductively. In addition, the wise and productive use of green water can potentially reduce demands on blue water. Because of this, green water must be accounted for if its potential contribution to the productivity, restoration, and sustainability of freshwater ecosystems is to be understood and optimized – not least in the context of nature-based solutions.
Under this Day, the CWW will cover the topics (but not limited to):
• Vulnerability of Freshwater ecosystems to global warming
• Mitigation and adaptation actions to restore freshwater ecosystems.
• Climate-smart irrigation & agriculture facilities
• Performing Green water accounting (water balance)
• Green water utilization and investment projects

This day will highlight a comprehensive input regarding generating more suitable and operative drought indices and enhancing the probabilistic flood forecasting systems, integrating several tools to implement a powerful Early Warning System (EWS). Besides, putting this knowledge to work and developing information tools based on technologies that are basic for managing flood and drought risk will do this in close collaboration with the stakeholders and end-users to ensure adequate uptake of the newly developed products.
Under this day, the CWW will cover the topics (but not limited to):
• (EWS) as a key element of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
• Prolonged droughts forecast and long-term mitigation and adaptation actions
• Floods forecast and disaster risk reduction (DRR)
• Early warning systems global initiatives.
• Investments mechanisms for early warnings and early action.
• Enhancement of risks observation, monitoring, and forecasting infrastructure