Addressing the Global Challenge of Water Security

With the world's population growing and with increasingly unpredictable weather events linked to climate change requiring urgent attention and novel solutions, the concept of water security has become increasingly important. While scarcity and accessibility are huge issues around the world, water security involves more than managing dwindling freshwater resources, it involves managing too much water, finding new ways of producing, treating, storing and supplying water, and ensuring equitable access, both in terms of quantity and quality. As much as water impacts on health, economy, and social well-being, finding solutions to the challenges posed by water security will involve governments, corporations, households, industry, planners, and more, and will increasingly require financial investment in research, education, and new technologies.