Tie-up of 5 Asian nations can help avert water crises globally

MICHAEL Burry, the American hedge fund manager who predicted the financial collapse of 2008 and was featured as the hero of the movie The Big Short, retired from the financial market after the crisis. He decided to concentrate his investments only in one sector - water.

Howard Buffet directs his entire charity activities towards water; so does Aamir Khan, India's leading movie actor. King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands and Prince Hassan of Jordan have devoted the last several years to addressing the water crisis.

The World Economic Forum has proclaimed water as the greatest risk in the world. The Strategic Foresight Group has established a correlation between water coope…