Is water becoming political?

Giorgos Koumparakis, Head of Department at the Mesogeos Group which specialises in water treatment, writes in Capital:

“Perhaps the real challenge of the 21st century is not simply to increase water availability through new infrastructure projects, but in transitioning from water management to water governance, in which the quality of the institutions determines a society’s resilience in the face of the insecurities resulting from climate change. In the near future, the quality of a democracy will not be measured solely by its political institutions. It will also be assessed on its ability to fairly distribute the most valuable natural resource of all: water.”