Bilateral Meeting on the WEPA Action Program in Cambodia
11 December 2019
Overview
The Ministry of the Environment, Japan and the Ministry of Environment of Cambodia co-organized the Bilateral Meeting on the WEPA Action Program in Cambodia on 11 December 2019, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The WEPA Action Program aims to tackle specific problems to conserve the water environment in WEPA partner countries and has been conducted since 2014. In the meeting, the experiences of both Japan and Cambodia on water environment management were shared and further proposals on the action program were discussed.
- Venue
- Hotel Palace Gate, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Participants
- WEPA Advisory Board Member, Ministry of the Environment, Japan, Ministry of Environment, Cambodia, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tonle Sap Authority (TSA), Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT)
- Organizers
- Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOE) Ministry of Environment, Cambodia (MOEC)
- Language
- English-Khmer simultaneous interpretation
- Chairperson
- Chea Sina, Acting Director General of Environmental Protection, MOEC
Agenda of the Meeting and Presentations
Opening Session
- Welcome Speech
- Tsubasa Hashimoto, Deputy Director, Water Environment Division, Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ)
- Welcome Speech and Opening Remarks
- Chea Sina, Acting Director General, Environmental Protection, Ministry of Environment, Cambodia (MOEC)
- Brief introduction of WEPA and purpose of consultation meeting
- Noriaki Murase, WEPA Secretariat
Session 1: Japanese Experience on Pollution Load Investigation and Pollution Control System for Conservation of Water Quality
- Lake Water Quality Conservation Measures of Japan
- Tsubasa Hashimoto, MOEJ
- Lessons from pollution load investigations in water bodies of Japan
- Koichi Fujie, WEPA Advisory Board Member
- Initiatives for water environment conservation in lakes of Japan: Case of Lake Biwa
- Bijon Kumer Mitra, WEPA Secretariat
Session 2: Environmental Management of Tonle Sap Great Lake and Propose WEPA Action Program in Cambodia
- Water Quality and Environmental Management in Tonle Sap Lake
- Khov Visong, Tonle Sap Authority (TSA)
- Temporal Variation of Sediment and Nutrients (Nitrate and Phosphorus) Dynamics in the Mekong/Tonle Sap River in Cambodia
- Oeurng Chantha, Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC)
- Urban Sewarage System in Cambodia
- Lun Hang, Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT)
- Proposal for WEPA action program in Cambodia
- Him Chandath, MOEC
Closing Session
- Wrap-up
- Noriaki Murase, WEPA Secretariat
- Closing Remarks
- Phin Rady, Director, Water Quality Management Department, MOEC