7th AWW Conference

Water, Energy, Environment and Food Nexus

• Water and Energy
• Water and Food Security
• Water and Environment

Institutionalization of integrated Water and Sanitation Safety Plans in the Utilities

• Enabling Environment, Regulations and Governance
• Industrial Wastewater Management and Monitoring
• Sludge Management
• Water Safety Plan and Protection of Watershed Areas
• Case Study in the Arab Region
• Capacity Building

Efficiency of Water Use in Different Sectors

• Institutionalization of Water Demand Management in the Utilities
• Legislation, Regulation, Enabling Environment and Motivation Scheme
• Water Saving Innovations and Technologies in:
  • Municipal Sector (Highrise buildings and residential houses, offices, hospitals, hotels and tourism)
  • Agricultural Sector
  • Industrial Sector

Best Practices in Managing Water Utilities

• Managing Utilities through Crisis
• Cost Recovery Towards Financial Sustainability
  • Non-Revenue Water (NRW)
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Improving Billing and Collection through Applying Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).
• TSM (Technical Sustainable Management)
• Leadership Empowerment for Managing Utilities
• Financial Modalities (Tariff Restructuring)
• Risk Management
• Involvement of Private Sector and Economy Driven

Progress in Achieving SDG 6

• International Joint Monitoring Reports
• Country Progress Reports
• Challenges Facing Progress in Achieving SDG 6
• Capacity Building for The National Committees

Financing Water and Wastewater Infrastructure and Water Resources

Groundwater Governance

Water Diplomacy “Shared and Transboundary Water Resources”

Unconventional Water Resources

Utility Assessment according to International Excellence Program.

Gender and Youth Mainstreaming in Water Sector

WASH Towards Sustainability

Digitization of Water and Wastewater Utilities

• Management Information Systems (MIS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Water Information Systems (WIS)
• Laboratory Management System (LMS)
• Supply Chain, Procurement and Inventory System
• Asset Management System
• SCADA System as a Tool for Operating and Monitoring
• GIS Application as a Tool for Network System Maintenance and Customer Service
• Adopting Cost Centers in HR and Payroll System
• Integration of Customer Information System (CIS), GIS, Billing, ERP and Asset Management System
• Smart Solutions in Managing Utilities:
  • Call Centers
  • Mobile Applications
  • Smart Solutions in Managing Cities Infrastructure

Governance, Policies and tools in Water Management

• National Water Master Plan
• WEAP-MODFLOW as a Decision Support System (DSS) for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
• Water Allocation
• Water Accounting
• Water Budget
• Water Demand Management (Developing Policies for Different Uses of Water)
• Financing and Investment Options
• Projects Management
• Legislation, Standards and Institutional Reform
• Regulatory, Benchmarking and Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
• Management of Public Private Partnership (PPP):
  • Performance Based Contracts
  • BOTs Contracts
  • Management Contracts

Knowledge Transfer for Utilities Through

• Capacity building
• Twinning and match making