Davos Annual Meeting 2009 - The Politics of Water

http://www.weforum.org 31.01.2009
The Politics of Water
With water at the centre of the food-energy-climate nexus, its scarcity will soon enter mainstream economics and politics.

Will it take a crisis to trigger policy reform?

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of the Board, Nestlé, Switzerland; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum
Richard B. Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Rio Tinto Alcan, Canada; Chair, Global Agenda Council on the Future of Mining and Metals
Peter Gleick, President, Pacific Institute, USA
Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister of the Environment and Water Resources of Singapore
Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences of India

Moderated by
Margaret Catley-Carlson, Patron, Global Water Partnership (GWP), Sweden; Chair, Global Agenda Council on Water Security

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[TheSolutions123]

telling? When does gender have to do with solutions? The title should have been edited to:

Corporate greed profiting from water.

[EcoDimension]

watch RANGO!

[Lolalovesamba]

It's very telling that there are no women on this panel, given that women and children bear the brunt of the water crisis

[sunnyccplus]

what a silly world!!! how can Switzerland pretend that they are a peaceful country and they are unaligned. while they supported the Israeli planes with a high cameras technology, to invade Gaza!!!!!!!!!! it's so irony<<