A word or two by WRC CEO

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A word or two – by the WRC Chief Executive Officer This year of the Dragon 2012 will be characterised by a range of interesting factors that intimately affect the world of water research and development (R&D). The first relates to the fact that 2012 is the year of Jhb+10 or Rio+20 to examine the sustainable development scorecard since the Rio Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) of 1992 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development of 2002. The second is the continued global economic challenge with the recovery from economic crises adopting a much larger timeframe than initially hoped for. In this environment the need to maximise resource benefit on the one hand and extension of services on the other in particular to the rural and the poor, looks like a Herculean challenge. Add to this the need for Green solutions in a cash-strapped environment and this starts to describe the gordian knot we have to slice through.

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