New Research Links Water Security and Economic Growth
While it is intuitively clear that economic growth is related to water security there has been very little empirical evidence of this relationship to date.
Laura Turley, an independent consultant on sustainable development based in Geneva, takes a look at the strong linkages between water security and economic growth in an article written for the New Security Beat website.
Read the blog post on the New Security Beat website.
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