Advancing Sustainable Water Management

Stanford Graduate School of Business

This conference will explore cutting-edge research and ideas on how to promote more sustainable management and allocation of freshwater resources. Freshwater is the world’s most crucial resource. Yet regional water allocation among uses and users is often inefficient, inequitable, and inflexible. Most water management systems are also ill prepared for climate change and rapid oscillations between extreme droughts and extreme floods. And many regions of the world continue to overexploit their water supplies, leading to problems ranging from groundwater overdraft to declining freshwater ecosystems.

The conference will include cover multiple topics related to sustainable freshwater policies, including:

• Water Markets
• Equitable Water Allocation and the Human Right to Water
• Climate Resilient Water Systems
• Politics of Water Governance
• Stimulating Innovation in the Water Sector
• Protecting Freshwater Ecosystems
• Case Studies in Water Management Challenges

Agenda

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