Two reports published in Davos

Realising the Potential of Public-Private Partnership Projects in water
Since late 2005, the Forum’s Water Initiative has focused on creating multistakeholder networks in South Africa and India. The objective has been to catalyze ideas for public-private water infrastructure projects and shape them into well-developed, bankable project propositions, complete with champions and financing plans. This report documents the results and concrete outcomes of the initiative and assesses the potential of these Networks.

Managing our Future Water Needs for Agriculture, Industry, Human Health and the Environment
Significant business disruptions due to water scarcity – across all sectors and geographies, and with all the associated technical, economic, political, environmental and social implications – are a reality today, and are projected to worsen in the future, as a result of climate change and demographics. Governments play an important role in helping to mitigate and adapt to the challenge, but so does the private sector, through individual company actions and through innovative public-private and multistakeholder partnerships. CEOs are called to catalyse holistic water management actions up and down their respective supply chains and throughout the existing and new networks of which they are a part.