Emerging trends in urban water management

The key one is that utilities companies will continue losing the trust of consumers. Even Singapore's PUB suffers this lack of trust, in that 3 to 4 in 10 households continue to boil their water.

Published Mon, Mar 23, 2015 · 09:50 PM

WITH World Water Day having fallen on March 22, an objective assessment of emerging urban water trends in the coming decades might be in order.

Predicting the future is difficult. It is even more complex in the urban water sector because what may happen will be an aggregation of unpredictable, interrelated developments in many areas, including the size and structure of the population, economic and industrial growth rates, people's expectations of standards of living and quality of life and prevailing water-management practices.

One fact can be predicted with complete certainty: the world after 2030 will be vastly different from what it is today.

The urban water sector will also change profoundly. Many of these changes will take place in non-water sectors, over which water professionals will have, at best, limited control. Urban water management bey…

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