Stockholm, 25 August 2006 - Fifty participants representing business, non-governmental organizations and academia came together for a WBCSD side event during World Water Week in Stockholm (20-26 August) to discover the WBCSD Water Scenarios to 2025 and then brainstorm about their relevance in group discussions.
Eskom power stations run constantly, supplying in excess of 95% of South Africa 's electrical energy and more than half of the electricity used on the African continent. Without water, this output would not be possible.
Two new reports, one from the WWF and the other from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) forecast a bleak future for global water supplies.
IPS, 28 September 2006 - The statistics are mind-boggling: of the more than six billion people in the world today, over one billion have no access to improved drinking water -- a basic necessity for human life -- and about 2.6 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation.