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IX Clean Water and Sanitation for All: Global Water Challenge--Derek Vollmer, Kathleen McAllister, and Jacqueline Coté
Pages 73-76

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... With over 1.1 billion people lacking access to clean water sources, GWC's mission is to create a dynamic global movement to advance the safe water/sanitation agenda, by seeking sustainable, demand-driven, and scalable solutions. Although GWC is one partnership among many globally which are focused on water and sanitation issues, GWC partners believe that it offers some unique attributes.
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From page 74...
... The private sector partners, all major water consumers with several hundred plants worldwide, are also quite aware of the reputational benefits they derive from being visibly engaged in addressing a global problem. For the NGO partners, which are also diverse in terms of their strategic niches and worldviews, the GWC provides an opportunity to learn, innovate, leverage corporate partners' resources, and collaborate in on-the-ground work and applied research.
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From page 75...
... GWC may face obstacles in the future if incentives for private sector partners are not maintained; this is vital to the financial security of GWC due to the partnership's reliance on funding from the private sector. Another challenge is that partners believe that water and sanitation still need to be higher on political agendas, especially in developing countries where capacity and political will to change water management practices is not prevalent.
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