Publication

With renewed global awareness of planetary boundaries and resource constraints, water's vital role is undisputed. This paper is a first attempt to meet the need to translate water security from abstract concept to a meaningful tool. It responds to a political concern, to articulate the objectives of water management in aspirational terms, and to a technical concern, to know what we are dealing with and how much progress we are making on water management in measurable terms. Bridging between these concerns is becoming increasingly urgent as 2015 approaches, by which point a global framework needs to be defined to succeed the MDGs.