World Water Day 2016 – No water, no jobs!

22 March 2016

The connection between water and jobs is not necessarily an obvious one. This year’s World Water Development Report (WWDR 2016) is dedicated to examining this relationship. It analyses how essential water is – not ‘just’ for life as is so often and rightfully claimed – but for jobs and therefore for economic growth, now and in the future. According to the Report, 78% of the jobs constituting the global workforce are dependent on water. “To hold the dialogue about the water and jobs nexus in the broader arena of science, technology and innovation policies, decision makers will have to step outside their comfort zones,” Uta Wehn says, in this article published on the occasion of the 2016 World Water Day (22 March).