Davos 2013: partnership makes impact on water crisis
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Government
Five years ago, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon warned business, NGO and government leaders gathered in Davos about the impendingwatercrisis in many developing countries.
"Economic growth is a thirsty business," he said, before challenging his audience to form new cross-sector partnerships to enable morefoodto be grown, more energy to be created and for greater industrial and manufacturing output - all with less water.
Often, such speeches don't lead to practical action. But this one did. In collaboration with the IFC, company chief executives went on to develop a unique set of new analytics that could identify "choke points" to national growth that water shortages would create by 2030, if no change in current inefficient uses of water were to take place.
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