Engaging and Incentivizing the Private Sector: An Emerging Opportunity for the Water World

In this opinion editorial, New Water Policy and Practice International Advisory Board member Dr Zafar Adeel (Director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada) gives his thoughts on the role of the private sector in solving the world's water problems. Adeel opens by pointing out some of the failures of current approaches, identifies emerging opportunities that did not exist before now, describes the challenges of engaging and incentivising the private sector and finishes with the need to create positive incentives and effective regulations to support private sector contributions to resolution of the world's water problems.