{"id":57409,"date":"2021-04-05T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57409"},"modified":"2021-04-05T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T00:28:23","slug":"the-real-value-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57409","title":{"rendered":"The real value of water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The real value of water<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Valuing Water<\/a>\u00a0is the theme of the\u00a029th<\/span>\u00a0World Water Day<\/a>\u00a0this year.\u00a0Valuing Water and Enabling Change<\/a>\u00a0also\u00a0happened to be the theme of the Annual Report of the\u00a0World Economic Forum\u2019s\u00a02030 Water Resources Group (now hosted by the World Bank) last year.<\/p>\n

Clearly, no one who ever had to go without a glass of water for a few hours on a hot summer day needs to be told how invaluable water is. In fact, we all know that water is essential for life itself. There is the truism water is life! So, why this emphasis on \u201cvaluing\u201d water?<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0World Water Day website<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cThe value of water is about much more than its price \u2014 water has enormous and complex value for our households, culture, health, education, economics and the integrity of our natural environment. If we overlook any of these values, we risk mismanaging this finite, irreplaceable resource.\u201d The Special Rapporteur on Right to Water is even more clear: \u201cBeyond the issues of pricing, this topic includes the environmental, social and cultural value people place on water. For instance, in daily life, water can mean health, hygiene, dignity and productivity. In cultural, religious and spiritual places, water can mean a connection with creation or community. And in natural spaces, water can mean peace and preservation. Water means different things to different people in different settings.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, policy makers tend to focus only on the economic value of water, almost forgetting all else.\u00a0The idea of treating water as an\u00a0economic good<\/em>\u00a0is not that old. It was first articulated in 1992 at the\u00a0International Conference on Water and Environment (ICWE<\/a>), as one of the four Dublin principles, which said:..<\/p>\n

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Shiney Varghese<\/a>, water, institute for agriculture and trade policy,<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The real value of water Valuing Water\u00a0is the theme of the\u00a029th\u00a0World Water Day\u00a0this year.\u00a0Valuing Water and Enabling Change\u00a0also\u00a0happened to be the theme of the Annual Report of the\u00a0World Economic Forum\u2019s\u00a02030 Water Resources Group (now hosted by the World Bank) last year. Clearly, no one who ever had to go without a glass of water for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8057,31119,866],"class_list":["post-57409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-institute-for-agriculture-and-trade-policy","tag-shiney-varghese","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57410,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57409\/revisions\/57410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}