Global Water Summit: “Water for Growth”

This annual event will be held in Paris on 7- 8 April 2014 and will focus on the theme: “Water for Growth”. Opportunities, emerging markets, new financial models, and creative approaches to performance in the utility sector will be discussed. Link here for the programme.

The theme of this year’s Global Water Summit is “Water for Growth”. It reflects the fact that water is not just necessary to facilitate economic expansion, but that the productivity gains that can be achieved through new technologies, better operational practices, and inspired leadership mean that water can be an engine of growth in itself, for cities and for businesses.

But growth in the water sector over the past five years has proved a slow and painful process. Most businesses operating in the international water sector are still finding the market harder than it was before the crash. That’s because competition has increased in their traditional markets, while the growth opportunities have moved to new areas.  The opportunities are in unconventional oil and gas, Africa’s economic  renaissance, emerging markets which have long since out-grown their legacy infrastructure, new financial models, and new approaches to performance in the utility sector.

It is an exciting time, but also a confusing time. The Global Water Summit in Paris on 7th and 8th April is there to help you make sense of the future, and to ensure that you are part of it.