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Thinking about Water Differently

Managing the Water-Food-Energy Nexus

Asian Development Bank

2013 Asian Development Bank

All rights reserved. Published 2013.
Printed in the Philippines.

ISBN 978-92-9254-252-8 (Print), 978-92-9254-253-5 (PDF)
Publication Stock No. RPT125184

Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Asian Development Bank.

Thinking about water differently: Managing the water-food-energy nexus. Mandaluyong City, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, 2013.

1. Water. 2. Food. 3. Energy. I. Asian Development Bank.

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Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Abbreviations

Executive Summary

Background

Water Security in the Face of Water Scarcity

Evidence

The SupplyDemand Gap

Momentum for Change

The WaterFoodEnergy Nexus

Context

Water Resources

Water for Food

Water for Energy

Energy in Water and Wastewater

Energy for Food

Food for Energy: Biofuels for Transport

Climate Change

Population

Urbanizing Asia

New Water Accounting

Water Economics

Virtual Water and Water Trade

Water Footprint

The Cost Curve

Minimum Freshwater Flows

Emerging Opportunities

Responding to the Crisis

Water Policies

Public Perception

Water Markets

Investment in Innovation and Technology

The Potential Response

Needs for Developing Asia

Thinking about Water Differently

Preparing the Program

Program Components

Structure of a Potential ADB Country Program

References

Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Tables

1 Population Undernourished in Asias Largest Countries

2 Potential Land Suitable for Agricultural Expansion

3 Scope for Productivity Improvement and Area Expansion

4 Gas and Liquid Fuels Value ChainWater Consumption

5 Electricity Industry Value ChainWater Consumption

6 Domestic Water Industry Value ChainEnergy Consumption

7 Water Footprint, Water Scarcity, and Water Dependency

Figures

1 Gap between Supply and Demand of Water

2 Irrigation Expanding, Food Prices Falling

3 Land and Water Use Today

4 Sample Water Availability Cost CurveIndia

Boxes

1 The Writing on the Wall

2 Twelve Economic and Geopolitical Water Issues for the Next Two Decades

3 Levels of Economic and Physical Water Scarcity

Abbreviations

ADB	Asian Development Bank
PRC	Peoples Republic of China
DMC	developing member country
m3	cubic meter

Executive Summary

Concerns about water security have reached the mainstream media, highlighting a significant threat to water availability at the global and regional level, particularly in certain parts of Asia and the Pacific. In fact, economic growth in the region will soon be constrained by water shortages, affecting the reliable production of food and energy. Part of the discussion is in terms of the water-food-energy nexus, that is, the links between the businesses of supplying water, food, and energy.

The evidence for existing and emerging water scarcity has been presented by a wide range of organizations. The 2030 Water Resources Group stated that with the total annual sustainable freshwater supply remaining static at 4,200 billion cubic meters (m3), the annual deficit for 2030 is forecasted to be 2,765 billion m3, or 40% of unconstrained demand, assuming that present trends continue. India and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) are forecasted to have a combined shortfall of 1,000 billion m3reflecting shortfalls of 50% and 25%, respectively. There is little evidence of changing trends. Signals of scarcity and stress have had little impact on policies, demand, or the market.

On the supply side, there is little room for finding and abstracting more water. In areas with physical water scarcity (including north PRC, south and northwest India, and Pakistan), demand needs to lessen. Elsewhere in Asia, with economic water scarcity (Bangladesh, Cambodia, north and northeast India, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal, and Viet Nam), new investment may still be aimed at improving supply-side infrastructure.

However, throughout the region, solutions have to be found mainly on the demand-side. Demand-management studies, conducted at a global level, illustrate the impact and costs for a wide spectrum of measures to reduce demand, whether in agriculture, industry, or municipal water use.

Water for food. The highest social and political significance is the water-food link. Rising food prices, food price spikes, shortages, adverse market interventions, social instability, and food riots are already a reality, and may make governments finally take decisive action on water security. All of South Asia, Cambodia, the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines have been classified as high food security risks; Afghanistan as extreme risk; and the rest of the region as medium food security risk.

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