The WEPA Seminar was held on 23 January 2014 at Soukairou Hall, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. The Seminar was aimed to introduce WEPA activities to Japanese audience as well as to share the information of water environment and its management framework in Asia with them.

The 9th Annual Meeting of WEPA was held on 21 January 2014 at Head Quarter of Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan hosted by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. It aimed to share and discuss the progress and plan of future activities of WEPA

WEPA and the Ministry of Environment of Indonesia have jointly organized the WEPA Workshop on “Decentralized Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Asia” on 14th November in Jakarta, Indonesia. About 30 policy makers and water professionals of related governmental ministries and NGOs from Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam have participated and contributed to the workshop. The purpose of this workshop is to share the technologies and management situation of decentralized domestic wastewater applied in WEPA member countries through a number of presentations at the workshop and actual site visits. In the workshop, participants discussed about the feasibility of decentralized domestic wastewater management systems in Asian countries. After the workshop, all participants had chance to pay a visit to a model SANIMAS project site of Indonesia government in Bekasi City. In addition, workshop participants attended the workshop on model project of Johkasou (Japanese decentralized domestic wastewater treatment system) organized by Kubota Corporation on 13th November in Jakarta.

WEPA organized technical session on water quality management in Asian region during the Second Asia Pacific Water Forum (APWS) which was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand (http://info.apwatersummit2.org/). The Second APWS has an overarching theme “Water Security and Water-related Disaster Challenges: Leadership and Commitment”. This session aims to discuss the international and regional cooperation needs to improve water quality in Asia, in consideration of current discussion over post 2015 international development goals on water. More than 40 policy makers and water experts from different counties contributed to our session. Our session summary was delivered to focal area session of APWS for further discussion

The 8th Annual Meeting of WEPA was held on 19 February 2013 at Apsara Angkor Conference and Resort, Siem Reap, Cambodia hosted by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan and Ministry of Environment, Cambodia. It aimed to share and discuss the progress and plan of activities of WEPA

The 4th International Workshop was held on 18-19 February 2013 at Apsara Angkor Conference and Resort, Siem Reap, Cambodia. The Workshop aimed to share the experiences on promotion and management of decentralized domestic wastewater treatment system among WEPA member countries as well as discuss the future possibility of decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in Asia.

Central Environment Authority of Sri Lanka (CEA), Ministry of the Environment, Japan and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) held a dialogue on water environment on 27 August 2012 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The officers from CEA and other related agencies in Sri Lanka participated in the dialogue. The meeting aimed to exchange views and experiences between Sri Lanka and Japan on water environmental management and identify areas in need of policy intervention. Experiences of Japan’s pollution control was shared and the challenges currently faced by Sri Lanka on industrial wastewater management and their possible solutions were actively discussed during the programme among the participants.

The session was aimed to share the experience of WEPA as unique partnership program and also discuss how to promote sustainable water environment management in Asia and its implications to other parts of the world. From the active discussion, a commitment to maintain the efforts for better water environment and an importance of WEPA which provides knowledge and experience sharing platform was reaffirmed. Experiences of the partner countries with WEPA such as that of Lao PDR have also been shared. Furthermore, the session was an occasion to launch the WEPA Outlook on Water Environment in Asia 2012.

The 7th Annual Meeting of WEPA in 2011 was held on 23 September 2011 at Mandarin Hotel Manila, Philippines hosted by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. It aimed to discuss the contents of the WEPA flagship publication “WEPA Outlook on Water Environmental Management in Asia” among WEPA partner countries.

The workshop aims to enhance practical knowledge on water quality management of WEPA partners through sharing experiences of WEPA countries. There are three sessions in the workshop – policy responses to attain the water quality targets; water quality management in the context of basin management; and domestic wastewater treatment.