{"id":1680,"date":"2022-05-11T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T02:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2022-05-28T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T00:12:21","slug":"roadmap-for-the-national-agenda-on-water-sector-transformation-2040-wst2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/roadmap-for-the-national-agenda-on-water-sector-transformation-2040-wst2040\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadmap for The National Agenda on Water Sector Transformation 2040 (WST2040)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ASM as the strategic partner of the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office has undertaken the roadmap for the national agenda on WST2040 development study for 20 months, starting from May 2020 to December 2021, with a mission to transform the water sector from an economic enabler into a dynamic economic sector that contributes to the national GDP and also to ensure water security and sustainability for every Malaysian. WST2040 will be achieved through its twin objectives: <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"p1\">Water security and sustainability<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Water as an economic opportunity<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\">A total of 87 strategies, 601 targets and 601 KPIs are to be implemented over the next four Malaysia Plans (MP), starting with 106 immediately implementable projects in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> MP. It is envisioned that if the potential of the water sector is fully optimised by transforming the water sector and water ecosystem, Malaysia will be able to achieve a value-add of RM13.3billion, contributing as much as 0.46% to the national GDP by 2040, as compared to a value-add of RM4.5billion. and a contribution of 0.32% in 2019. However, this transformation can only be possible with knowledge, technology and ultimately, a developed and sound water ecosystem that is sustainable, effective and holistic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The WST2040 study addressed eight additional sub-sectors as follows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Advocacy, Awareness, Capacity Building and Public Participatory Platforms <span class=\"s1\"><b>(AACB)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Integrated Water Sector Data and RDIC Centre <span class=\"s1\"><b>(IWSDC)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">IR 4.0 in the various Water Sub-sectors <span class=\"s1\"><b>(IR4.0)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Water-Food-Energy-Nexus <span class=\"s1\"><b>(WFE<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Nexus)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Virtual Water and Water Footprint <span class=\"s1\"><b>(VW&amp;WF)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Climate Change Impact and Adaptation <span class=\"s1\"><b>(CCIA)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Alternative Water Financing <span class=\"s1\"><b>(AWF)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Water as an Economic Sector <span class=\"s1\"><b>(WES)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1986&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] ASM as the strategic partner of the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office has undertaken the roadmap for the national agenda on<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commissioned-studies","category-sap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademisains.gov.my\/ar21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}