We are in a world in which we are trying to price carbon, but we do not know how to value water, free water is probably the most expensive water for poor people, because whenever you give out free water it's captured by the politically powerful, not by the poor.

Junaid Ahmad

Categorized in : Energy

We're headed into a perfect storm in which over the next 20 years we will see the demand for water growing significantly, driven by thirsty agriculture, thirsty energy and thirsty cities, if we are to achieve these goals of food and energy security, sustainable urbanisation, and ensure service delivery of water and sanitation to citizens, we now need to figure out how water is going to be allocated across sectors.

It took developed countries many years to achieve universal access, if we look at history and the pace in which developed countries have changed, then what developing countries are doing today is pretty historic. They are catching up at a very fast rate.