Establishing the value of water - the business case for change

This report is part of our effort to more broadly communicate ‘state of the world’ issues that engineers can help address. This report includes a discussion of issues related to the value and pricing of water services, which going forward must meet a very important, delicate and critical balance, between providing services universally to meet the SDGs, improve livelihoods, food, energy, health etc as a necessity but using policy and pricing mechanisms which allow significant investment to take place without pricing people, towns, areas or even regions out of vital services. We also note issues related to the financial and social costs of our water challenges which are not routinely ‘priced’.

Welcome by
William Howard, President, FIDIC, United States

Moderator
Dr. Nelson Ogunshakin OBE, CEO, FIDIC, Switzerland

Speakers
Jeshika Ramchund, Lead Engineer - Developments, Bosch Projects, South Africa
Miguel Mondria, Chief Technology Officer, TYPSA, Spain
Peter Guthrie, Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Natalie Muir, General Manager - Water & Environment, Cardno, Australia
Graham Pontin, Head of Economic and Strategic Policy, FIDIC, United Kingdom
April Gu, Professor, Cornell University, United States

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