Global Agenda Council on Water Security 2011

Our wealthier, more populous, more climate-variable world is fast becoming a more water insecure world. Water insecurity poses a real threat to the economic development and security of numerous countries.

The fundamental rethink of how water is managed will simultaneously focus on supply, investment, allocation, regulation and conservation issues. The world must manage the resource better; however, water management is approached with trepidation, if it even appears on the political agenda. Although effective bilateral and regional arrangements exist, global institutions are not configured to provide the multidisciplinary, multistakeholder platforms required to discuss, highlight and collectively take action on shared water challenges. Thus there is a clear need to establish such coalitions and to make them “ACT”, or move from analysis to collations to transformations, in order to prevent major water crises.