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At the World Economic Forum in Davos two weeks ago, I was struck by how often the issue of water risk was raised by business executives. As the global economic turmoil is receding, many CEOs and global leaders are turning to other threats—and…

Franz Litz, Executive Director of Pace Law School’s Energy and Climate Center, also contributed to this post.

WRI…

As we’ve seen recently with Hurricane Sandy,

This post originally appeared on National Geographic’s “City Solutions” blog.

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In a little more than one generation—by the time your grade-schoolers will be seeing their own kids off to school—our planet will be home to 9 billion people. This will create…

The world is on track to become a very different place in the next two decades. Per capita income levels are rising, the global middle class is expanding, and the population is set to hit 8.3 billion people by 2030. At the same time, urbanization…

Some people say that water is the oil of the 21st Century. If only water were that simple.

Water is very complicated. It’s…