Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Doing More with Less

ADB Water Financing 2006-2020

Complete Package of Assistance:

• Investments ($2.0 - $2.5 billion annually)

• Reforms (policy, legislation, regulation)

• Capacity development (sector institutions)

Operational Challenges

• Water not on the agenda

• Demand for investments

• Fragmentation – external and internal

• Weak institutional capacity –

disbursement/sustainability

• Safeguards

• Technology and innovation

Actions

1. Country Water Assessments:

– 8 CWAs under preparation

– AWDO 2013 : water security indexes (PRC,

MON)

– Demand from DMCs

– Limited knowledge partnerships

Actions

22. Operationalizing Nexus:

– Closer links rural-urban water

– Water-food improving efficiency and

productivity

– Operations links between water-energy

increase water profile

– Reinvigorate IWRM

Actions

3. Innovative financing:

– Options for results based lending, policy

loans

– Private sector and Public-Private

Partnership

– Large energy loans to leverage water

resources management