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<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Content==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. Within the report it is argued there is a need to increase knowledge, facts and actualities relating to water use and how supply could be increased and demand reduced: therefore helping to inform decision-making and policy. However, many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least the concept of scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
<br />
*[[The Barilla Group]]<br />
*[[The Coca-Cola Company]]<br />
*The [[International Finance Corporation]]<br />
*[[McKinsey & Company]]<br />
*[[Nestlé S.A.]]<br />
*[[New Holland Agriculture]]<br />
*[[SABMiller plc]],<br />
*[[Standard Chartered Bank]]<br />
*[[Syngenta AG]]<br />
<br />
===Expert Advisory Group===<br />
<br />
In addition to the core sponsors (above), an expert advisory group provided invaluable advice on the<br />
methodology and content of the study [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]. The advisory group was composed of:<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Jamal Saghir]], Director, Energy, Water and Transport, [[Abel Mejia]], Water Anchor<br />
Lead, and [[Michael Jacobsen]], Senior Water Resources Specialist, [[World Bank]] Group<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Anders Berntell]], Director General, and [[Jakob Granit]], Program Director, [[Stockholm International Water Institute]] (SIWI)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Colin Chartres]], Director General, [[International Water Management Institute]] (IWMI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Dominic Waughray]], Director of Environmental Initiatives, [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[James Leape]], CEO, [[Stuart Orr]], Freshwater Manager, [[WWF-International]], and<br />
[[Tom LeQuesne]], Freshwater Policy Officer, [[WWF-UK]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[John Briscoe]], [[Gordon McKay]] Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,<br />
Harvard University<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Piet Klop]], Acting Director, Markets and Enterprise Program, and [[Charles Iceland]],<br />
Associate, People and Ecosystems Program, [[World Resources Institute]] (WRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Mark Rosegrant]], Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division,<br />
[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Michael Norton]], Managing Director, Water and Power Group, [[Halcrow Group Ltd]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Pasquale Steduto]], Service Chief, [[Food and Agricultural Organization]], Land and Water<br />
Unit (FAO)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Börkey]] and [[Roberto Martín-Hurtado]], Water Team leaders, [[Organization for<br />
Economic Co-operation and Development]] [[(OECD)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Gleick]], President and [[Jason Morrison]], Water Program Leader, [[Pacific Institute]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Over and above the expert committee a further 300 people are named as assisting in compiling the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051562030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T22:12:33Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. Within the report it is argued there is a need to increase knowledge, facts and actualities relating to water use and how supply could be increased and demand reduced: therefore helping to inform decision-making and policy. However, many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least the concept of scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
<br />
*[[The Barilla Group]]<br />
*[[The Coca-Cola Company]]<br />
*The [[International Finance Corporation]]<br />
*[[McKinsey & Company]]<br />
*[[Nestlé S.A.]]<br />
*[[New Holland Agriculture]]<br />
*[[SABMiller plc]],<br />
*[[Standard Chartered Bank]]<br />
*[[Syngenta AG]]<br />
<br />
===Expert Advisory Group===<br />
<br />
In addition to the core sponsors (above), an expert advisory group provided invaluable advice on the<br />
methodology and content of the study [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]. The advisory group was composed of:<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Jamal Saghir]], Director, Energy, Water and Transport, [[Abel Mejia]], Water Anchor<br />
Lead, and [[Michael Jacobsen]], Senior Water Resources Specialist, [[World Bank]] Group<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Anders Berntell]], Director General, and [[Jakob Granit]], Program Director, [[Stockholm International Water Institute]] (SIWI)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Colin Chartres]], Director General, [[International Water Management Institute]] (IWMI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Dominic Waughray]], Director of Environmental Initiatives, [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[James Leape]], CEO, [[Stuart Orr]], Freshwater Manager, [[WWF-International]], and<br />
[[Tom LeQuesne]], Freshwater Policy Officer, [[WWF-UK]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[John Briscoe]], [[Gordon McKay]] Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,<br />
Harvard University<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Piet Klop]], Acting Director, Markets and Enterprise Program, and [[Charles Iceland]],<br />
Associate, People and Ecosystems Program, [[World Resources Institute]] (WRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Mark Rosegrant]], Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division,<br />
[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Michael Norton]], Managing Director, Water and Power Group, [[Halcrow Group Ltd]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Pasquale Steduto]], Service Chief, [[Food and Agricultural Organization]], Land and Water<br />
Unit (FAO)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Börkey]] and [[Roberto Martín-Hurtado]], Water Team leaders, [[Organization for<br />
Economic Co-operation and Development]] [[(OECD)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Gleick]], President and [[Jason Morrison]], Water Program Leader, [[Pacific Institute]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Over and above the expert committee a further 300 people are named as assisting in compiling the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051552030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T22:08:04Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least the concept of scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
<br />
*[[The Barilla Group]]<br />
*[[The Coca-Cola Company]]<br />
*The [[International Finance Corporation]]<br />
*[[McKinsey & Company]]<br />
*[[Nestlé S.A.]]<br />
*[[New Holland Agriculture]]<br />
*[[SABMiller plc]],<br />
*[[Standard Chartered Bank]]<br />
*[[Syngenta AG]]<br />
<br />
===Expert Advisory Group===<br />
<br />
In addition to the core sponsors (above), an expert advisory group provided invaluable advice on the<br />
methodology and content of the study [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]. The advisory group was composed of:<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Jamal Saghir]], Director, Energy, Water and Transport, [[Abel Mejia]], Water Anchor<br />
Lead, and [[Michael Jacobsen]], Senior Water Resources Specialist, [[World Bank]] Group<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Anders Berntell]], Director General, and [[Jakob Granit]], Program Director, [[Stockholm International Water Institute]] (SIWI)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Colin Chartres]], Director General, [[International Water Management Institute]] (IWMI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Dominic Waughray]], Director of Environmental Initiatives, [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[James Leape]], CEO, [[Stuart Orr]], Freshwater Manager, [[WWF-International]], and<br />
[[Tom LeQuesne]], Freshwater Policy Officer, [[WWF-UK]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[John Briscoe]], [[Gordon McKay]] Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,<br />
Harvard University<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Piet Klop]], Acting Director, Markets and Enterprise Program, and [[Charles Iceland]],<br />
Associate, People and Ecosystems Program, [[World Resources Institute]] (WRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Mark Rosegrant]], Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division,<br />
[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Michael Norton]], Managing Director, Water and Power Group, [[Halcrow Group Ltd]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Pasquale Steduto]], Service Chief, [[Food and Agricultural Organization]], Land and Water<br />
Unit (FAO)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Börkey]] and [[Roberto Martín-Hurtado]], Water Team leaders, [[Organization for<br />
Economic Co-operation and Development]] [[(OECD)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Gleick]], President and [[Jason Morrison]], Water Program Leader, [[Pacific Institute]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Over and above the expert committee a further 300 people are named as assisting in compiling the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051332030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T17:24:08Z<p>Tommy: /* Expert Advisory Group */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
<br />
*[[The Barilla Group]]<br />
*[[The Coca-Cola Company]]<br />
*The [[International Finance Corporation]]<br />
*[[McKinsey & Company]]<br />
*[[Nestlé S.A.]]<br />
*[[New Holland Agriculture]]<br />
*[[SABMiller plc]],<br />
*[[Standard Chartered Bank]]<br />
*[[Syngenta AG]]<br />
<br />
===Expert Advisory Group===<br />
<br />
In addition to the core sponsors (above), an expert advisory group provided invaluable advice on the<br />
methodology and content of the study [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]. The advisory group was composed of:<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Jamal Saghir]], Director, Energy, Water and Transport, [[Abel Mejia]], Water Anchor<br />
Lead, and [[Michael Jacobsen]], Senior Water Resources Specialist, [[World Bank]] Group<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Anders Berntell]], Director General, and [[Jakob Granit]], Program Director, [[Stockholm International Water Institute]] (SIWI)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Colin Chartres]], Director General, [[International Water Management Institute]] (IWMI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Dominic Waughray]], Director of Environmental Initiatives, [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[James Leape]], CEO, [[Stuart Orr]], Freshwater Manager, [[WWF-International]], and<br />
[[Tom LeQuesne]], Freshwater Policy Officer, [[WWF-UK]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[John Briscoe]], [[Gordon McKay]] Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,<br />
Harvard University<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Piet Klop]], Acting Director, Markets and Enterprise Program, and [[Charles Iceland]],<br />
Associate, People and Ecosystems Program, [[World Resources Institute]] (WRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Mark Rosegrant]], Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division,<br />
[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Michael Norton]], Managing Director, Water and Power Group, [[Halcrow Group Ltd]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Pasquale Steduto]], Service Chief, [[Food and Agricultural Organization]], Land and Water<br />
Unit (FAO)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Börkey]] and [[Roberto Martín-Hurtado]], Water Team leaders, [[Organization for<br />
Economic Co-operation and Development]] [[(OECD)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Gleick]], President and [[Jason Morrison]], Water Program Leader, [[Pacific Institute]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Over and above the expert committee a further 300 people are named as assisting in compiling the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051322030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T17:23:37Z<p>Tommy: /* Publications and Research */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
<br />
*[[The Barilla Group]]<br />
*[[The Coca-Cola Company]]<br />
*The [[International Finance Corporation]]<br />
*[[McKinsey & Company]]<br />
*[[Nestlé S.A.]]<br />
*[[New Holland Agriculture]]<br />
*[[SABMiller plc]],<br />
*[[Standard Chartered Bank]]<br />
*[[Syngenta AG]]<br />
<br />
===Expert Advisory Group===<br />
<br />
In addition to the core sponsors (above), an expert advisory group provided invaluable advice on the<br />
methodology and content of the study[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]. The advisory group was composed of:<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Jamal Saghir]], Director, Energy, Water and Transport, [[Abel Mejia]], Water Anchor<br />
Lead, and [[Michael Jacobsen]], Senior Water Resources Specialist, [[World Bank]] Group<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Anders Berntell]], Director General, and [[Jakob Granit]], Program Director, [[Stockholm International Water Institute]] (SIWI)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Colin Chartres]], Director General, [[International Water Management Institute]] (IWMI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Dominic Waughray]], Director of Environmental Initiatives, [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[James Leape]], CEO, [[Stuart Orr]], Freshwater Manager, [[WWF-International]], and<br />
[[Tom LeQuesne]], Freshwater Policy Officer, [[WWF-UK]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[John Briscoe]], [[Gordon McKay]] Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,<br />
Harvard University<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Piet Klop]], Acting Director, Markets and Enterprise Program, and [[Charles Iceland]],<br />
Associate, People and Ecosystems Program, [[World Resources Institute]] (WRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Mark Rosegrant]], Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division,<br />
[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Michael Norton]], Managing Director, Water and Power Group, [[Halcrow Group Ltd]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Pasquale Steduto]], Service Chief, [[Food and Agricultural Organization]], Land and Water<br />
Unit (FAO)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Börkey]] and [[Roberto Martín-Hurtado]], Water Team leaders, [[Organization for<br />
Economic Co-operation and Development]] [[(OECD)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Gleick]], President and [[Jason Morrison]], Water Program Leader, [[Pacific Institute]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Over and above the expert committee a further 300 people are named as assisting in compiling the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051312030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T17:21:46Z<p>Tommy: /* Expert Advisory Group */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
<br />
*[[The Barilla Group]]<br />
*[[The Coca-Cola Company]]<br />
*The [[International Finance Corporation]]<br />
*[[McKinsey & Company]]<br />
*[[Nestlé S.A.]]<br />
*[[New Holland Agriculture]]<br />
*[[SABMiller plc]],<br />
*[[Standard Chartered Bank]]<br />
*[[Syngenta AG]]<br />
<br />
===Expert Advisory Group===<br />
<br />
In addition to the core sponsors (above), an expert advisory group provided invaluable advice on the<br />
methodology and content of the study[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]. The advisory group was composed of:<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Jamal Saghir]], Director, Energy, Water and Transport, [[Abel Mejia]], Water Anchor<br />
Lead, and [[Michael Jacobsen]], Senior Water Resources Specialist, [[World Bank]] Group<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Anders Berntell]], Director General, and [[Jakob Granit]], Program Director, [[Stockholm International Water Institute]] (SIWI)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Colin Chartres]], Director General, [[International Water Management Institute]] (IWMI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Dominic Waughray]], Director of Environmental Initiatives, [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[James Leape]], CEO, [[Stuart Orr]], Freshwater Manager, [[WWF-International]], and<br />
[[Tom LeQuesne]], Freshwater Policy Officer, [[WWF-UK]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[John Briscoe]], [[Gordon McKay]] Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,<br />
Harvard University<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Piet Klop]], Acting Director, Markets and Enterprise Program, and [[Charles Iceland]],<br />
Associate, People and Ecosystems Program, [[World Resources Institute]] (WRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Mark Rosegrant]], Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division,<br />
[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Michael Norton]], Managing Director, Water and Power Group, [[Halcrow Group Ltd]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Pasquale Steduto]], Service Chief, [[Food and Agricultural Organization]], Land and Water<br />
Unit (FAO)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Börkey]] and [[Roberto Martín-Hurtado]], Water Team leaders, [[Organization for<br />
Economic Co-operation and Development]] [[(OECD)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Gleick]], President and [[Jason Morrison]], Water Program Leader, [[Pacific Institute]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Over and above the expert committee a further 300 people are named as assisting in compiling the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051302030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T17:21:27Z<p>Tommy: /* Members and Participants */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
<br />
*[[The Barilla Group]]<br />
*[[The Coca-Cola Company]]<br />
*The [[International Finance Corporation]]<br />
*[[McKinsey & Company]]<br />
*[[Nestlé S.A.]]<br />
*[[New Holland Agriculture]]<br />
*[[SABMiller plc]],<br />
*[[Standard Chartered Bank]]<br />
*[[Syngenta AG]]<br />
<br />
===Expert Advisory Group===<br />
<br />
In addition to the core sponsors (above), an expert advisory group provided invaluable advice on the<br />
methodology and content of the study[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]. The advisory group was composed of:<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Jamal Saghir]], Director, Energy, Water and Transport, [[Abel Mejia]], Water Anchor<br />
Lead, and [[Michael Jacobsen]], Senior Water Resources Specialist, [[World Bank]] Group<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Anders Berntell]], Director General, and [[Jakob Granit]], Program Director, [[Stockholm International Water Institute]] (SIWI)<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Colin Chartres]], Director General, [[International Water Management Institute]] (IWMI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Dominic Waughray]], Director of Environmental Initiatives, [[World EconomicForum]] (WEF)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[James Leape]], CEO, [[Stuart Orr]], Freshwater Manager, [[WWF-International]], and<br />
[[Tom LeQuesne]], Freshwater Policy Officer, [[WWF-UK]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[John Briscoe]], [[Gordon McKay]] Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,<br />
Harvard University<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Piet Klop]], Acting Director, Markets and Enterprise Program, and [[Charles Iceland]],<br />
Associate, People and Ecosystems Program, [[World Resources Institute]] (WRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Mark Rosegrant]], Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division,<br />
[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Michael Norton]], Managing Director, Water and Power Group, [[Halcrow Group Ltd]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Pasquale Steduto]], Service Chief, [[Food and Agricultural Organization]], Land and Water<br />
Unit (FAO)<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Börkey]] and [[Roberto Martín-Hurtado]], Water Team leaders, [[Organization for<br />
Economic Co-operation and Development]] [[(OECD)]]<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Gleick]], President and [[Jason Morrison]], Water Program Leader, [[Pacific Institute]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Over and above the expert committee a further 300 people are named as assisting in compiling the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051292030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T17:18:28Z<p>Tommy: /* Members and Participants */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
===Members===<br />
<br />
*[[The Barilla Group]]<br />
*[[The Coca-Cola Company]]<br />
*The [[International Finance Corporation]]<br />
*[[McKinsey & Company]]<br />
*[[Nestlé S.A.]]<br />
*[[New Holland Agriculture]]<br />
*[[SABMiller plc]],<br />
*[[Standard Chartered Bank]]<br />
*[[Syngenta AG]]<br />
<br />
===Expert Advisory Group===<br />
<br />
In addition to the core sponsors (above), an expert advisory group provided invaluable advice on the<br />
methodology and content of the study . The advisory group was composed of:<br />
<br />
<br />
*[[Jamal Saghir]], Director, Energy, Water and Transport, [[Abel Mejia]], Water Anchor<br />
Lead, and [[Michael Jacobsen]], Senior Water Resources Specialist, [[World Bank]] Group<br />
<br />
*[[Anders Berntell]], Director General, and [[Jakob Granit]], Program Director, [[Stockholm<br />
International Water Institute]] (SIWI)<br />
<br />
[[Colin Chartres]], Director General, [[International Water Management Institute]] (IWMI)<br />
<br />
*[[Dominic Waughray]], Director of Environmental Initiatives, [[World Economic<br />
Forum]] (WEF)<br />
<br />
*[[James Leape]], CEO, [[Stuart Orr]], Freshwater Manager, [[WWF-International]], and<br />
[[Tom LeQuesne]], Freshwater Policy Officer, [[WWF-UK]]<br />
<br />
*[[John Briscoe]], [[Gordon McKay]] Professor of the Practice of Environmental Engineering,<br />
Harvard University<br />
<br />
*[[Piet Klop]], Acting Director, Markets and Enterprise Program, and [[Charles Iceland]],<br />
Associate, People and Ecosystems Program, [[World Resources Institute]] (WRI)<br />
<br />
*[[Mark Rosegrant]], Director of the Environment and Production Technology Division,<br />
[[International Food Policy Research Institute]] (IFPRI)<br />
<br />
*[[Michael Norton]], Managing Director, Water and Power Group, [[Halcrow Group Ltd]]<br />
<br />
*[[Pasquale Steduto]], Service Chief, [[Food and Agricultural Organization]], Land and Water<br />
Unit (FAO)<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Börkey]] and [[Roberto Martín-Hurtado]], Water Team leaders, [[Organization for<br />
Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD)<br />
<br />
*[[Peter Gleick]], President and [[Jason Morrison]], Water Program Leader, [[Pacific Institute]]<br />
<br />
Over and above the expert committee a frurther 300 people are named as assisting in compiling and then publishing the report<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051252030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T17:01:17Z<p>Tommy: /* Participants */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051242030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T17:00:30Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report, towards marketisation and conducive regulation and institutional frameworks, is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051222030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T16:56:12Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051192030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T16:55:24Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051182030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T16:54:28Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051172030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T16:53:49Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how, "The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. <br />
<br />
<br />
They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion<br />
of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051162030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T16:53:15Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reiteration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how<br />
<br />
<br />
"The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. <br />
<br />
<br />
They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion<br />
of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051152030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T16:51:45Z<p>Tommy: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reieration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how<br />
<br />
<br />
"The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. <br />
<br />
<br />
They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion<br />
of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051142030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T16:50:28Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. The report evaluates four parts of the world with different pressures and issues regards water supply and demand: China, India, Sau Paulo in Brazil and South Africa. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reieration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how<br />
<br />
<br />
"The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. <br />
<br />
<br />
They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion<br />
of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
The report discusses collaborations between the private sector, policy makers and civil society, however, unsurprisingly the onus is very much based on technical and market based solutions rather than forthright policy forcing legislative changes on users and providers of water. Moreover, the tone of the report itself is very much technical, however the predisposition of the report is demonstrated in the following passage.<br />
<br />
"In many cases large individual water users have a big role to play in managing demand. Government policy can help align industrial behavior with efficiency objectives, forming a key component of a reform program. It is critical to ensure incentive design emphasizes the value of water productivity—for example through clearer ownership rights, appropriate tariffs, quotas,<br />
pricing, and standards—and at the same time recognizes the impacts such incentives can have on the companies’ profitability. A fact base on the economics of adoption and on the real potential of efficiency measures in such sectors can help identify and prioritize the right regulatory tools for action" <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making Executive Summary] (p29) Accessed 20th January 2010.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051082030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T15:55:28Z<p>Tommy: /* Content, Arguments and Recommendations */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reieration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
<br />
<br />
Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
<br />
<br />
Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how<br />
<br />
<br />
"The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. <br />
<br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. <br />
<br />
<br />
They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion<br />
of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report.<br />
<br />
==Participants==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051072030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T15:54:28Z<p>Tommy: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
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<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
<br />
==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
<br />
The report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] sets out the analysis of the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] concerning the issue of perceived water scarcity. They set out the scale of the imbalance between actual capacity of supply, the gap between supply and current and future demand, 'technical' and economic instruments to assist reduced demand, opportunities or 'pathways' for various arms of the private sector to benefit from scarcity and the reieration of assumptions entrenched in market environmentalist thought. <br />
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Water Scarcity is clearly of great concern to the companies involved in the [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. Neither altruistic concerns to ensure universal provision of water and wastewater service or even-handedness in sharing water lies at the root of their intervention however. As they intimate, their motivation in initiating this research is borne from a concern water scarcity poses a risk to their business. While providing interesting instruments for business to measure water usage, which could in turn be used to help decrease their use of water many vital areas are overlooked in the report. Not least scarcity itself.<br />
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Mitchell and Kane wrote in 2008 how<br />
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"The concept of scarcity is one of the key fundamental economic variables in free market economics. It is important to understand, however, that scarcity is a relative concept. It is relative in the sense that it is measured not in terms of the absolute quantity of a good or service such as water, but rather by actual use and/or demand. For example, the state of California may have enough water to satisfy the basic water needs of their citizens (i.e. enough water for drinking, cooking, and washing etc.); however, there may not be adequate supplies when is comes filling swimming pools, washing cars, and watering golf courses and front and back gardens. Scarcity is affected, then, by socially-constructed wants and needs as well as unsustainable demands and levels of consumption" <ref> Mitchell, K and Kane, T, (2008) 'Water Governance in Scotland <br />
and the Potential for a Community-based Alternative' </ref>. Of course, <br />
<br />
Nevertheless the report [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] provides useful information in setting out the imbalance between current and future supply and current and future demand. For instance, the demand predicted in 2030, hence the name of the group. <br />
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They write "By 2030, under an average economic growth scenario and if no efficiency gains are assumed, global water requirements would grow from 4,500 billion m3 today (or 4.5thousand cubic kilometers) to 6,900 billion m3. As Exhibit 1 shows, this is a full 40 percent above current accessible, reliable supply (including return flows, and taking into account that a portion<br />
of supply should be reserved for environmental requirements). This global figure is really the aggregation of a very large number of local gaps, some of which show an even worse situation: one-third of the population, concentrated in developing countries, will live in basins where this deficit is larger than 50 percent. The quantity represented as accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply—a much smaller quantity than the absolute raw water available in nature—is the amount that truly matters in sizing the water challenge"<br />
<br />
The predicted imbalance between supply and future demand is predicated on predicted patterns of economic growth. Any notion towards a plateua or negation of growth with a corresponding redistribution of already exisitng assets and resources is not countenanced in this report. <br />
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[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051052030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:47:46Z<p>Tommy: /* Publications and Research */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051042030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:47:32Z<p>Tommy: /* Publications and Research */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
The Executive Summary can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making].<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051032030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:47:06Z<p>Tommy: </p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being"<ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p10) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
The Executive Summarry can be accessed from [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]. <br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051022030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:44:42Z<p>Tommy: /* Publications and Research */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
<br />
==Publications and Research==<br />
<br />
[[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Full_Report_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making]] appears to be the sole output of [[2030 Water Resources Group]]. <br />
<br />
The "study focuses on how, by 2030, competing demands for scarce water resources can be met<br />
and sustained. It is sponsored, written, and supported by a group of private sector companies<br />
and institutions who are concerned about water scarcity as an increasing business risk, a major<br />
economic threat that cannot be ignored, and a global priority that affects human well-being".<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051012030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:39:05Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], (p3) Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
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==Publications and Research==<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1051002030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:37:59Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], Accessed 20 January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
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==Publications and Research==<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1050992030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:36:20Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
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The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future<br />
Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], Accessed 20January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
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==Publications and Research==<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1050982030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:35:52Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
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The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdfCharting Our Water Future<br />
Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], Accessed 20January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1050972030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:35:24Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009)[http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdfCharting Our Water Future<br />
Economic frameworks to inform decision-making], Accessed 20January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1050962030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:34:13Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]] (mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Financial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future<br />
Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] Accessed 20January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs.<br />
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==Publications and Research==<br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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==Participants==<br />
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[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1050952030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:33:19Z<p>Tommy: </p>
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The [[2030 Water Resources Group]] was formed in 2008. Its a collaboration of industrial users of water, the [[World Bank]](mainly through its subdivision, the [[International Finacial Corporation]]) and the Global Management Consultancy firm [[McKinsey and Company]] <ref> 2030 Water Resources Group (2009) [http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary_001.pdf Charting Our Water Future<br />
Economic frameworks to inform decision-making] Accessed 20January 2010 </ref>. With no 'independent' address and with all enquiries relating to the [[2030 Water Resources Group]] directed to the e-mail address 2030WaterResourcesGroup@mckinsey.com one can deduce McKinsey and Company has been charged with the facilitation of this group, its outputs and the dissemination of these outputs. <br />
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==Content, Arguments and Recommendations==<br />
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[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=2030_Water_Resources_Group&diff=1050942030 Water Resources Group2010-01-21T14:15:22Z<p>Tommy: New page: ==Introduction== ==Publications and Research== ==Content, Arguments and Recommendations== ==Participants== ==References== <references/> [[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]...</p>
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Professor Colin Robinson is an economist based at the Department of Economics at the University of Surrey. According to his [http://www.econ.surrey.ac.uk/people/crobinson/index.html University of Surrey biography], <br />
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"Colin Robinson worked for eleven years as a business economist, mainly in the oil industry, before being appointed in 1968 to the Chair of Economics at the University of Surrey, where he founded the Department of Economics...He is a Fellow of the [[Royal Statistical Society]], of the [[Society of Business Economists]] and of the [[Institute of Energy]]. He is a past member of the [[Monopolies and Mergers Commission]] and of the Secretary of State for Energy`s [[Advisory Council on Research and Development in Fuel and Power]]. He was named British Institute of Energy Economics `Economist of the Year’ in 1992 and in 1998 received from the [[International Association for Energy Economics]] its "Outstanding Contribution to the Profession and its Literature" award". <br />
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He is also a prominent member of the influential [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] (IEA).From 1992 to 2002 he was Editorial Director of the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]], in addition to his university post. He is a member of the IEA`s Academic Advisory Council and a Trustee of the [[Wincott Foundation]]. The [[Institute for Economic Affairs]] has shown interest in the Water Industry over recent times. Their journal 'Economic Affairs' dedicated a section to discussing what they percieved to be the ‘The Crisis in Water’ , the section included an article from Colin Robinson titled ‘A Crisis in Water? The wrong sort of privatisation’ <ref> [http://www.iea.org.uk/record.jsp?type=economicAffairs&ID=93 The Crisis in Water Volume 18.2](Economic Affairs, June 1998: 2-25) </ref>.<br />
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==Colin Robinson and Scottish Water== <br />
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Colin Robinson has published work which considers the current model of ownership and other future alternatives for [[Scottish Water]]. He wrote a paper for the Scottish Think Tank, [[The Policy Institute]] (now known as [[Reform Scotland]]), which evolved into a chapter for the book '''The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity''' edited by [[Kendra Okonski]] and published by the [[International Policy Network]]. Both articles discussed Scottish Water's current ownership model and the potential,indeed the need, for a new model founded on market principles and privatisation. Moreover, he critiqued the current model as a continuance of the failed nationalised model <ref> Colin Robinson 'Reviving The Scottish<br />
Water Industry', Policy Institute, Series: Economy No. 9 (March 2005) </ref> <ref> 'Robinson, C. (2006) 'How not to reorganise an industry: privatisation, liberalisation and Scottish Water', in Kendra Oskonski (ed) (2006) 'The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity' (International Policy Press) </ref>.<br />
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Despite his criticism of the current model, Colin Robinson has met with the Chief Executive, [[Alan Sutherland]] and Chairman, Sir [[Ian Byatt]] of the [[Water Industry Commission for Scotland]] for one to one meetings with them in London <ref> From the diaries of Alan Sutherland and Sir Ian Byatt, obtained through Freedom of Information, November 2008 </ref>.<br />
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[[Category:Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104163Business Action for Water2010-01-06T13:29:51Z<p>Tommy: /* Objectives */</p>
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[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref> [http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=ODYz&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu Business Action for Water] </ref>. <br />
<br />
The renewed [[Business Action for Water]] which prepared for and then worked at the [[World Water Forum]] also included private water lobbyists [[Aquafed]], as well as the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]]. The [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]] has an ad-hoc water committee. The Chairman of the Ad-Hoc water group at the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] is, coincidentally, [[Jack Moss]] a senior figure at [[Aquafed]] <ref> BIAC [http://www.biac.org/policygrp/profile-water.htm Ad-Hoc group on Water profile] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
As has been made clear the objectives of [[Business Action for Water]] is to promote the interests of private business in any discussions relating to water policy at a global level.<br />
<br />
Amongst their arguments is to raise the political profile of water amongst decision-makers. Moreover, that governments invest in water infrasructure as part of their their 'economic stimulus programs' introduced in various countries to tackle the current economic crisis <ref> Business Action for Water [http://www.wbcsd.org/web/projects/water/baw/BAWWWF5Pressrelease_WEB.pdf BUSINESS CALLS ON ISTANBUL FORUM TO RAISE POLITICAL PROFILE OF WATER] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
The type of decisions they wish to see made by decision makers were made pretty clear in their contribution to the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]]. They reminded the commission of the need to marry the cononomic, social and environmental as well as their abilities and their willingness to assist in tackling the MDG's. Curiously, they state they have "offered these successful approaches to be replicated and scaled up wherever they could render results" <ref> Business Action for Water 13th SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 11-22 APRIL 2005 [http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd13/statements/2104_industry.pdf BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY MAJOR GROUP STATEMENT] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Other contributions echo other pro-business organisations and institutions. For instance, how "Business looks to governments to provide the necessary enabling frameworks, as business can only<br />
operate effectively in a strong and stable legal, regulatory and economic context" and "Conditions and mechanisms should be put in place and strengthened that will encourage the development and implementation of low cost debt financing for water and sanitation projects that will attract funds nationally and internationally" <ref> Business Action for Water 13th SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, 11-22 APRIL 2005 [http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/csd/csd13/statements/2104_industry.pdf BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY MAJOR GROUP STATEMENT] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104162Business Action for Water2010-01-06T13:18:23Z<p>Tommy: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref> [http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=ODYz&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu Business Action for Water] </ref>. <br />
<br />
The renewed [[Business Action for Water]] which prepared for and then worked at the [[World Water Forum]] also included private water lobbyists [[Aquafed]], as well as the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]]. The [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]] has an ad-hoc water committee. The Chairman of the Ad-Hoc water group at the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] is, coincidentally, [[Jack Moss]] a senior figure at [[Aquafed]] <ref> BIAC [http://www.biac.org/policygrp/profile-water.htm Ad-Hoc group on Water profile] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
As has been made clear the objectives of [[Business Action for Water]] is to promote the interests of private business in any discussions relating to water policy at a global level.<br />
<br />
Amongst their arguments is to raise the political profile of water amongst decision-makers. Moreover, that governments invest in water infrasructure as part of their their 'economic stimulus programs' introduced in various countries to tackle the current economic crisis <ref> Business Action for Water [http://www.wbcsd.org/web/projects/water/baw/BAWWWF5Pressrelease_WEB.pdf BUSINESS CALLS ON ISTANBUL FORUM TO RAISE POLITICAL PROFILE OF WATER] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
The type of decisions they wish to see made by decision makers were made pretty clear in their contribution to the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]]. They reminded the commission of the need to marry the cononomic, social and environmental as well as their abilities and their willingness to assist<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104161Business Action for Water2010-01-06T13:15:54Z<p>Tommy: /* Objectives */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref> [http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=ODYz&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu Business Action for Water] </ref>. <br />
<br />
The renewed [[Business Action for Water]] which prepared for and then worked at the [[World Water Forum]] also included private water lobbyists [[Aquafed]], as well as the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]]. The [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]] has an ad-hoc water committee. The Chairman of the Ad-Hoc water group at the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] is, coincidentally, [[Jack Moss]] a senior figure at [[Aquafed]] <ref> BIAC [http://www.biac.org/policygrp/profile-water.htm Ad-Hoc group on Water profile] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
As has been made clear the objectives of [[Business Action for Water]] is to promote the interests of private business in any discussions relating to water policy at a global level.<br />
<br />
Amongst their arguments is to raise the political profile of water amongst decision-makers. Moreover, that governments invest in water infrasructure as part of their their 'economic stimulus programs' introduced in various countries to tackle the current economic crisis <ref> Business Action for Water [http://www.wbcsd.org/web/projects/water/baw/BAWWWF5Pressrelease_WEB.pdf BUSINESS CALLS ON ISTANBUL FORUM TO RAISE POLITICAL PROFILE OF WATER] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
The type of decisions they wish to see made by decision makers were made pretty clear in their contribution to the<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104160Business Action for Water2010-01-06T13:14:21Z<p>Tommy: /* Objectives */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref> [http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=ODYz&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu Business Action for Water] </ref>. <br />
<br />
The renewed [[Business Action for Water]] which prepared for and then worked at the [[World Water Forum]] also included private water lobbyists [[Aquafed]], as well as the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]]. The [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]] has an ad-hoc water committee. The Chairman of the Ad-Hoc water group at the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] is, coincidentally, [[Jack Moss]] a senior figure at [[Aquafed]] <ref> BIAC [http://www.biac.org/policygrp/profile-water.htm Ad-Hoc group on Water profile] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
As has been made clear the objectives of [[Business Action for Water]] is to promote the interests of private business in any discussions relating to water policy at a global level.<br />
<br />
Amongst their arguments is to raise the political profile of water amongst decision-makers. Moreover, that governments invest in water infrasructure as part of their their 'economic stimulus programs' introduced in various countries to tackle the current economic crisis <ref> Business Action for Water [http://www.wbcsd.org/web/projects/water/baw/BAWWWF5Pressrelease_WEB.pdf BUSINESS CALLS ON ISTANBUL FORUM TO RAISE POLITICAL PROFILE OF WATER] Accessed 6yth January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104159Business Action for Water2010-01-06T13:06:07Z<p>Tommy: /* Members and links */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref> [http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=ODYz&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu Business Action for Water] </ref>. <br />
<br />
The renewed [[Business Action for Water]] which prepared for and then worked at the [[World Water Forum]] also included private water lobbyists [[Aquafed]], as well as the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]]. The [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]] has an ad-hoc water committee. The Chairman of the Ad-Hoc water group at the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] is, coincidentally, [[Jack Moss]] a senior figure at [[Aquafed]] <ref> BIAC [http://www.biac.org/policygrp/profile-water.htm Ad-Hoc group on Water profile] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104158Business Action for Water2010-01-06T13:05:51Z<p>Tommy: /* Members and links */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref> [http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=ODYz&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu Business Action for Water] </ref>. <br />
<br />
The renewed [[Business Action for Water]] which prepared for and then worked at the [[World Water Forum]] also included private water lobbyists [[Aquafed]], as well as the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]]. The [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]] has an ad-hoc water committee. The Chairman of the Ad-Hoc water group at the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] is, coincidentally, [[Jack Moss]] a senior figure at [[Aquafed]] <ref> BIAC [http://www.biac.org/policygrp/profile-water.htm Ad-Hoc group om water profile] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104157Business Action for Water2010-01-06T13:03:42Z<p>Tommy: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref> [http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=ODYz&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu Business Action for Water] </ref>. <br />
<br />
The renewed [[Business Action for Water]] which prepared for and then worked at the [[World Water Forum]] also included private water lobbyists [[Aquafed]], as well as the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]]. The [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]] has an ad-hoc water committee. The Chairman of the Ad-Hoc water group at the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] is, coincidentally, [[Jack Moss]] a senior figure at [[Aquafed]].<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104156Business Action for Water2010-01-06T13:03:04Z<p>Tommy: /* Members and links */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref> [http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD4/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=ODYz&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu Business Action for Water]. <br />
<br />
The renewed [[Business Action for Water]] which prepared for and then worked at the [[World Water Forum]] also included private water lobbyists [[Aquafed]], as well as the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]]. The [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] to the [[OECD]] has an ad-hoc water committee. The Chairman of the Ad-Hoc water group at the [[Business and Industry Advisory Committee]] is, coincidentally, [[Jack Moss]] a senior figure at [[Aquafed]].<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104155Business Action for Water2010-01-06T12:54:56Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104154Business Action for Water2010-01-06T12:54:22Z<p>Tommy: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
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==Members and links==<br />
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The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <br />
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==Objectives==<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
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[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
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Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref><br />
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==Objectives==<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104152Business Action for Water2010-01-06T12:53:19Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
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[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
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Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water Business Action for Water - The Business Network Dedicated to the World Water Forum] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref><br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104151Business Action for Water2010-01-06T12:52:45Z<p>Tommy: /* Members and links */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
<br />
==Members and links==<br />
<br />
The original founders of [[Business Action for Water]], the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] represent scores of businesses. As they acknowledge they bring 'together a comprehensive network of businesses, large and small, drawn from many sectors and regions around the world' <ref><br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104150Business Action for Water2010-01-06T12:37:30Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
<br />
Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> International Chamber of Commerce [http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/environment/id26150/index.html Environment and Energy Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>. Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
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==Members and links==<br />
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==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104149Business Action for Water2010-01-06T12:35:32Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
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[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
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Originally intended to be an ad-hoc temporary organisation, [[Business Action for Water]] was renewed for the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009 <ref> . Providing the unitary voice for business, the purpose of [[Business Action for Water]] at the [[World Water Forum]] was unambiguous.<br />
<br />
"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
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==Members and links==<br />
<br />
==Objectives==<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104148Business Action for Water2010-01-06T12:31:41Z<p>Tommy: /* Introduction */</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
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[[Business Action for Water]] was formed in 2004 by the [[International Chamber of Commerce]] and the [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]. Their remit was clear: to provide a business perspective at the 13th session (11-22 April 2005) of the [[UN Commission on Sustainable Development]] (UNCSD), which focused on water, sanitation and human settlements. <br />
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It was said that it was an ad-hoc temporary organisation. However, [[Business Action for Water]] has remained intact since. At the 5th [[World Water Forum]] in Istanbul, 2009, [[Business Action for Water]] provided the unitary voice for business. Their purpose at the World Water Forum was unambiguous.<br />
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"The overall aim of Business Action for Water is to profile business and industry as positive agents to achieve the goals, commitments and activities of the [[World Water Forum]]. It will try to achieve this by 1) communicating and promoting business contributions as a partner in water-related issues, and 2) ensuring business has a seat at the water table, i.e., that the needs and interests of business are also taken into account in a reasonable and equitable way by the international community" <ref> [http://www.businessactionforwater.org/ Business Action for Water] Accessed 6th January 2010 </ref>.<br />
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==Members and links==<br />
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==Objectives==<br />
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==References==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Business_Action_for_Water&diff=104147Business Action for Water2010-01-06T11:44:56Z<p>Tommy: New page: ==Introduction== ==Members and links== ==Objectives== ==References== <references/> Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks Category: Water</p>
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<div>==Introduction==<br />
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==Members and links==<br />
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==Objectives==<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Water: Transnational Lobby Networks]]<br />
[[Category: Water]]</div>Tommyhttps://powerbase.info/index.php?title=UN_Advisory_Board_on_Water_and_Sanitation&diff=104146UN Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation2010-01-06T10:32:02Z<p>Tommy: </p>
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<div>In 2004 [[Kofi Annan]] established the UN Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation. The intended mandate of the board is to “galvanize global action on water and sanitation issues…” with missions to “give advice to UN Secretary General; give input in global dialogue process; raise global awareness through mass-media, etc.; influence and work on global, regional, national institutions at highest level; and take its own actions towards [[MDGs]]”<ref>UN Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) (United Nations), [http://www.unsgab.org/about.htm About UNSGAB], accessed 27 October 2008.</ref>.<br />
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Though the board states that it is an “independent body”, critics of the board are concerned with several board members support of private sector participation in the water services sector as well and their promotion of cost-recovery approaches to water delivery. Perhaps even more disconcerting, however, is the fact that several prominent neoliberal figures sit on the board, including, former managing director of the [[IMF]] [[Michael Camdessus]], Egypt’s Irrigation and Water Minister and founder and member of the board of governors of the [[World Water Council]] ([[WWC]]) Mahmoud Abou Zeid, former chair off the [[Global Water Partnership]] ([[GWP]]) [[Margaret Catley-Carlson]], Secretary General of the [[OECD]] [[Angel Gurría]], and former senior executive-vice-president of [[Suez]] and former chairperson and CEO of [[Ondeo]] [[Gerard Payen]]. It’s no wonder why the recently appointed senior adviser on water to the [[UN]], Maude Barlow, in her 2007 book entitled ‘The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water’ suggests that the neo-liberal agenda of the Washington Consensus has become the “guiding mantra for the elite running the global institutions involved in water development, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and even the United Nations” <ref>Maude Barlow (2007) ‘The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle For the Right To Water’, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., p.37.</ref>. <br />
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'''Board Members'''<br />
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[[Prince Willem-Alexander]] (Chairperson)<br />
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[[Uschi Eid]] (Vice-Chair)<br />
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[[Mahmoud Abu-Zeid]]<br />
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[[David Boys]]<br />
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[[Michael Camdessus]]<br />
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[[Juanita Castano]]<br />
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[[Margaret Catley-Carlson]]<br />
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[[Jocelyn Dow]]<br />
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[[Giorgio Giacomelli]]<br />
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[[Angel Gurría]]<br />
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[[Han Seung-soo Kbe]]<br />
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[[Omar Kabbaj]]<br />
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[[Olivia La O’Castillo]]<br />
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[[Antonio Miranda]]<br />
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[[Maria Mutagamba]]<br />
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[[Poul Nielson]]<br />
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[[Hideaki Oda]]<br />
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[[Eric Odada]]<br />
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[[Gerard Payen]]<br />
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[[Judith Rees]]<br />
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[[Richard (Roy) Torkelson]]<br />
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[[Yordan Uzunov]]<br />
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[[Shucheng Wang]]<br />
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==References==<br />
<References/><br />
[[Category:Water: Governing Institutions]]<br />
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