Pricing water to reflect its true value; encouraging innovation that reduces costs, improves efficiency and drives new revenue streams; and educating the public, particularly youth, on the importance of water are three of today’s most challenging pressures for the world’s water leaders, according to initial findings from the high-level “Water Pressures” workshop at Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) 2011 on 6 July.
Organised in partnership with Black & Veatch as part of the SIWW Water Leaders Summit, the workshop featured approximately 110 global leaders from more than 20 countries. Twelve internationally renowned chairpersons led delegates through a total of 25 rapid-fire conversations focused on three pressures that the water sector is facing today: Policy Pressures, Innovation Pressures and Public Pressures.
Overviews of the findings, featuring the the final white paper, are available below:
