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Global Water Security: an engineering perspective

Published by the Royal Academy of Engineering
April 2010

This report addresses water security as a global issue as well as considering the situation of the UK in that context.
 
The report recommends:

• That inter-governmental bodies elevate the issues of water security in their strategies
• Water security should become a core component of UK policy making, particulalry international development policy
• UK industry must show leadership on global water security
• The regulation of the water sector globally needs to have integrated water resource management and sustainability informed by a systems approach at its core
• The Government should bolster investment in the research and development of solutions to global water security
• The UK engineering institutions should ensure that their global memberships are appropriately equipped to apply a systems led approach to water engineering, incorporating the technical, geo-political, societal and ethical dimensions of the challenge.

The study was undertaken on behalf of the Engineering the future, an alliance comprising the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.

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