The global water crisis is a crisis of governance

Nick Tandi

The global water crisis is a crisis of governance, and therein lies the opportunity. It is by fixing the people and the organizations that fix the pipes, and the policy environment that influences their decisions, that we can turn the situation around and ensure that the 780 million people in the world who do not have access to clean water, will do so for the first time. Nick Tandi argues that public-private partnerships are key to addressing this injustice. To make the water value chain work, we first need to make the connections between individuals and organisations in the value chain healthy.

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Nick Tandi is Programme Manager for the Strategic Water Partners Network (SWPN). The SWPN is a multi-stakeholder platform, brokered by the 2030 WRG, chaired by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), and co-chaired by representatives from the business sector. Before joining the SWPN, Nick was Program Manager at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) where he co-led its work on mobilising finance for water infrastructure in Africa. Nick has an educational background in natural sciences (BSc with honors in Soil Science), social sciences (MSc Social Ecology), and in development finance (post-graduate course).