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Water has been ignored globally as the engine for green growth, says Joppe Cramwinckel, Director Water, WBCSD
August 5, 2012
Water has been ignored globally as the engine for green growth, says Joppe Cramwinckel, Director Water, WBCSD
In an interview with Director Water at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development by Aparna Khandelwal, a sustainability consultant, they talk about the role of water as an important resource in sustainable development. The interview proceeds on about how water has not yet been fully realized as a commodity that may be, in the future, be found lacking.
“Water has been ignored globally as the engine for green growth. Notion is that water is always there and there is right to access hence there are no economic incentives to develop water infrastructure.”
Director Water stresses that people fail to recognize that water-energy-food are related. Water issues and challenges have not been communicated properly to all sectors but proper attention is being given gradually. Awareness is now increasing and with the recent Rio+20 Summit, considerable focus is now being given to water challenges.
Read the interview at Sustainable Outlook.
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