Monday, November 4, 2019
11:45 AM to 01:15 PM
Location:
Amsterdam RAI
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Speaker - Hélio Suleiman, President of the Alto Tietê Basin Agency (São Paulo/Brazil)
Name
Hélio Suleiman, President of the Alto Tietê Basin Agency (São Paulo/Brazil)
Biographical Sketch
Hélio Sulleiman is a Civil engineer, specialized in urban & hydraulic engineering with emphasis on flooding, urban drainage, sanitation and hydrodynamic propagation.
He has 23 years of experience in the São Paulo state water management, developing and implementing basin plannings through participatory process.
During the elaboration of the 2018 Alto Tietê Basin Plan he acted as the facilitator. Fostering the dialogue with various actors and sectors, he succeeded on integrating different water perspectives and dimensions into the debate, achieving a feasible water plan and highlighting the great complexity of managing the water of the biggest metropolis of Latin America.
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Speaker - Joris van Toor, De Nederlandsche Bank
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Joris van Toor, De Nederlandsche Bank
Biographical Sketch
Joris van Toor is a Policy Advisor at the Supervisory Policy Division of De Nederlandsche Bank. He studied Econometrics & Operations Research and Quantitative Finance & Actuarial Sciences at Tilburg University. From 2014 to 2017 he did his PhD research at the Tilburg University - TIAS School for Business and Society on the performance of banks before, during and after the financial crisis. This year he authored a DNB report titled Values at Risk? in which he studied, amongst others, the risks of water scarcity for the Dutch financial sector.
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Speaker - Kevin Winter, University of Cape Town
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Kevin Winter, University of Cape Town
Biographical Sketch
Kevin Winter is a senior lecturer in Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is also a lead researcher in the Future Water Institute at UCT in surface water resource management, water quality and urban waterways. He is widely published in the academic literature in urban water management.
He has Bachelor degrees from the University of Cape Town, a Masters degree from London University and a PhD from the University of Cape Town in Environmental Management.
He is a member of the City of Cape Town’s Section 80 Water Resilience Task Team in Cape Town.
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Speaker - Vetrivel Dhagumudi, Kimberly-Clark
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Vetrivel Dhagumudi, Kimberly-Clark
Biographical Sketch
Vetrivel Dhagumudi works as a Global Program Leader at Kimberly-Clark Corporation. As a program leader he manages the enterprise-wide water reduction goals, which has eliminated more than 13 billion gallons of fresh water usage to date and has developed WaterLoupe an interactive water management tool along with Deltares, which allows users to assess water risk for an entire watershed as well as for a specific sector and sub-group, over a 30 years’ time horizon. He has also developed a model to establish context based water targets for sites located in high water stress region. Vetri also provides leadership across the enterprise and serves as the central point of contact for any and all interfaces on the subject of Water & Wastewater. During his tenure, Vetri led the organization to formulate long-term sustainability goals for Water & Solid Waste management and high-level strategy execution to support them. Vetri has a Master’s degree in Environmental Resource Engineering and has also written and published papers on water reuse for industrial applications at various conferences.
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Chair - Sophie Vermooten, Project leader WaterLOUPE, Deltares
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Sophie Vermooten, Project leader WaterLOUPE, Deltares
Biographical Sketch
Sophie Vermooten (Deltares) is a hydrogeologist with 16 years of experience in groundwater related projects related to fresh water supply or remediation of contaminated sites in the Netherlands and abroad. A key initiative she is leading since 2016 is the development of the WaterLOUPE approach, in cooperation with the private sector, the multinational Kimberly-Clark. WaterLOUPE supports multi-actor decision-making and collaborative action for water stewardship in water stressed basins with the aim to reduce the impact of water scarcity.
She is the Deltares region manager for Europe, coordinating the Deltares' business development related to specialised consultancy and R&D in that region.
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Session: Water scarcity and related risks: challenges for companies and investors
Theme: Integrating water and resources management
Organiser: Deltares
Other organisations: Kimberly-Clark, De Nederlandse Bank (DNB), Western Cape Government (South Africa)
The challenges related to water scarcity are dealt with at different levels, whether it is at the local level in a water stressed basin, at the multinational level, or at the macro-economic level. Recently, water scarcity risks have become increasingly visible in the media, but also companies and investors are beginning to invest and develop projects around the topic of water risks and stewardship. In this workshop, we want to discuss how companies and investors are currently dealing with water scarcity risks, how they predict to deal with them in the future and what that means for their needs with respect to data, information, knowledge and collaboration. We will also discuss how we can bridge the gap between the different ‘worlds’ (local governments, businesses and investors) to increase the mutual understanding of the impact of water scarcity and jointly seek for solutions to reduce that impact. The output of the workshop will produce an article to be published in relevant international professional magazines and internet platforms.
Crosscutting
Workshop
Finance
Location:
Amsterdam RAI
Room:
G105
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04 November 2019 11:45
04 November 2019 13:15
Europe/Amsterdam
Water scarcity and related risks: challenges for companies and investors
Theme: Integrating water and resources management
Organiser: Deltares
Other organisations: Kimberly-Clark, De Nederlandse Bank (DNB), Western Cape Government (South Africa)
The challenges related to water scarcity are dealt with at different levels, whether it is at the local level in a water stressed basin, at the multinational level, or at the macro-economic level. Recently, water scarcity risks have become increasingly visible in the media, but also companies and investors are beginning to invest and develop projects around the topic of water risks and stewardship. In this workshop, we want to discuss how companies and investors are currently dealing with water scarcity risks, how they predict to deal with them in the future and what that means for their needs with respect to data, information, knowledge and collaboration. We will also discuss how we can bridge the gap between the different ‘worlds’ (local governments, businesses and investors) to increase the mutual understanding of the impact of water scarcity and jointly seek for solutions to reduce that impact. The output of the workshop will produce an article to be published in relevant international professional magazines and internet platforms.
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