So was the UN Water Conference worth it?The world of water through the eyes of GWI publisher Christopher Gasson.Christopher GassonIt was a pig. ...
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So was the UN Water Conference worth it?
The world of water through the eyes of GWI publisher Christopher Gasson.
Christopher Gasson
It was a pig. A heartless pig. 300 onsite sessions. Another 1,000 or so offsite sessions. All in three days. No keynotes. No plenary sessions to bring everyone together to hear a single message. No signage, no delegate list, no way of telling who was speaking where and when. Yet somehow it was worthwhile. How so?
I think somehow this impossible event captured the essence of the world’s water challenge. It is impossibly complex. It isn’t going to be solved by a few government people getting together to sign something like the Paris Climate Agreement. The water challenge isn’t one challenge, like climate change. It is a thousand different challenges happening in a million different places with 7.888 billion different solutions. That is to say, solving it relies on every single person on the planet playing their part.
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The world of water through the eyes of GWI publisher Christopher Gasson.
Christopher Gasson
It was a pig. A heartless pig. 300 onsite sessions. Another 1,000 or so offsite sessions. All in three days. No keynotes. No plenary sessions to bring everyone together to hear a single message. No signage, no delegate list, no way of telling who was speaking where and when. Yet somehow it was worthwhile. How so?
I think somehow this impossible event captured the essence of the world’s water challenge. It is impossibly complex. It isn’t going to be solved by a few government people getting together to sign something like the Paris Climate Agreement. The water challenge isn’t one challenge, like climate change. It is a thousand different challenges happening in a million different places with 7.888 billion different solutions. That is to say, solving it relies on every single person on the planet playing their part.
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