World Water Summit and Expo 2023
World Water Summit and Expo 2023 will feature panel discussion and presents the platform where experts and researches around the world will reveal the untapped recourses of waste water.The Director, Globe chambers of
commerce and industry announced the theme of the forthcoming world water summit
and expo to be “waste water-reduce and reuse” to combact the growing impact of
climate change on water resources.
The Director made this known at a
press conference while addressing members of the press, he said, waste water
management is especially appropriate as a record number of countries around the
world grapple with devastating droughts while seeking to meet the increasing
water demands of the world’s growing population.
“we have witnessed an increase in
global average air temperatures as well as ocean temperatures, and the rise in
temperature is an irrefutable evidence of climate change, and this has already
started to have serious consequences for our water resources and will have even
more dire consequences in the future, he added.
The director further said,Compounding
the dire consequences of climate change are population growth, land-use changes
and urbanization, increasing demands for water and energy, rising standards of
living, changing dietary habits, changing agricultural practices, increasing
industrial activities, increased pollution, and changing economic activities.
All these will likely have adverse effects on water resources’’.
The GCCI Director buttressing the
need for water security explained that, “Water is a fundamental part of all
aspects of life, and is inextricably linked to the three pillars of sustainable
development, and it integrates social, cultural, economic and political values.
With climate change profoundly affecting our economies, societies and
environment, water is indeed the biggest deal breaker to achieve the
internationally agreed water-related goals and target.
He further told the press that this
year World water summit and expo will broaden out beyond its traditional realm
of water use, sanitation and hygiene, to attracting participants from across
the development sector including actors in health, agriculture and energy and
outside of it, including private sector players such as businesses, insurers,
financiers and manufacturers to seize the opportunity for a great economic
cooperation and business development.
“ Water is in high
demand and already has an estimated increased need to feed the industrial,
energy and food production needs, this calls for more smart and efficiency in
the way we handle this scarce resource” he further said.
He Enjoined a more joined up
approach by actors in the water industry to solving the multiple
dimensions of the water problems, saying recent climate changes has opened our
eyes to seeing the need of water as a ‘’resource’’ and a scares
commodity that is fundamental to a wide community factors.
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