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Water is a Big Deal, But How is an Investor to Respond?

4/03/2015

Originally posted in the GreenMoney Monthly eJournal http://www.greenmoneyjournal.com/march-2015/big-deal/ By Garvin Jabusch Download "Water is a Big [...]

Shock and Awe

"2.6 billion people or 39 percent of the world’s population live without access to improved sanitation."

WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP)

"The cost of adapting to the impacts of a 2°C rise in global average temperature could range from US$70 to $100 billion per year between 2020 and 2050."

World Water Development Report, UNESCO

"Over 90 percent probability that human activities over the past 250 years have warmed our planet."

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations

"Projections are that by 2025, two thirds of the world’s population could be living in severe water stress conditions."

USAID Water and Development Strategy

"1 in 8 people world wide do not have access to safe and clean drinking water."

WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme

"The world has quietly transitioned into a situation where water, not land, has emerged as the principal constraint on expanding food supplies."

Lester Brown, The Guardian

"If the world waits until 2020 to take action on global climate change, it will undoubtedly be too late."

International Energy Agency (IEA)

"Sixteen of the 17 warmest years in the 136-year temperature record all have occurred since 2001."

NASA / Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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