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A new global initiative, Just Transitions for Water Security, underscores water pricing and mismanagement as key barriers to water security worldwide in its session at World Water Week 2024 in Stockholm today.
According to Andrew Roby, Senior Water Security Adviser to the UK government, mismanagement is continuing in the water sector, and climate change is making it worse.
He has also mentioned that the lack of civil societies’ engagement in holding governments and corporations accountable, and also indicated market forces are not working to promote water security.
For Virginia Newton-Lewis, Director of Water Sustainability, there are many ways to achieve water security and climate resilience goals such as using “better of the interconnectedness of the climate, water, and nature to our advantage”.
World Water Week will officially kick off tomorrow and continue until 29 August 2024 with a theme, “Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future”.
