SEMINAR: CWR Presents:

Access to sufficient quantities of fresh, clean water is a critical element in human prosperity.  Globally, hundreds of millions go without this basic right.  Water stress is increasing around the world as climate change, population growth, pollution, and waste take their toll.   At every level, from national and state policy making, to water management decisions made by individual firms, water is being misallocated and wasted because its true value is not being recognised.     By using the concept of total economic value, the full life-cycle environmental, social and economic costs and benefits of water management options can be compared, and optimal alternatives adopted. 

Examples from the water supply, mining and waste water treatment industries illustrate how 20th Century business as usual approaches rarely provide best overall value, and other alternatives which are currently deemed “uneconomic” are actually superior, when full real value to all stakeholders is considered in explicit monetary terms.

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