This past April, Harvard’s South Asia Institute hosted a workshop on Water and Poverty in Urban Slums as a component of its annual symposium. Video of this event will be available from their website later this summer, but we have a detailed summary of the discussion among the panelists. In an attempt to better understand the […]
The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risk 2014 Report ranks water crises as the third greatest global economic risk, just after fiscal crises in key economies and employment rate challenges; and water related risks of extreme weather events (#6) and food crises (#8) rank in the top ten. However, Lloyd’s Risk Index (LRI) ranks water scarcity […]
