The Water Wheel November-December 2015

Abstract

Fluid Thoughts The year 2015 has been a vanguard year globally. We have as the global community confronted some of the conventional wisdoms and dominant trends on the wake of the reality bites of some of the crispest challenges facing us in all of our time on Earth. The water year began with the World Economic Forum concluding in the Global Risk Register that water (the challenge of water security and the possibility of water crisis) constitutes, on a combination of likelihood and impact, the single highest risk factor to the global economy. This convergence of the global community of both public and private sector players, unique in modern times, served as an important stimulus to another important coming together, now of global leaders, to develop an important international work-plan for the next 15 years. In September, heads of state and government met at the United Nations and agreed on the most ambitious set of targets we have seen in recent times – the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs.

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