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Industryfordevelopment Contents Number 19 MakIndustryfor DevelopmentingIt Water makingit_19_pp2-3_intro.qxp_print 20/08/2015 11:07 Page 2 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A quarterly magazine. Stimulating, critical and constructive. A forum for discussion and exchange about the i ntersection of industry and development. www.makingitmagazine.net makingit_19_pp2-3_intro.qxp_print 20/08/2015 11:07 Page 3 Editorial A water footprint shows the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including that used for growing, harvesting, packaging and shipping. The global average water footprint of industrial products is 80 litres per US dollar of the purchase price. Every manufactured product requires water but some industries are more water-intensive than others. More than 4,600 litres of water are used to make one tonne of cement; 837 litres to make one kilogram of cotton; 458 litres to make one kilogram of synthetic plastic; 190 litres to make one litre of paint; and ten litres to make one sheet of paper. Industrial wastewater is one of the most serious sources of water pollution. There are many types of industrial wastewater based on different industries and contaminants, with each sector producing its own particular combination of pollutants. The production and cleaning processes in the iron and steel, textiles and leather, pulp and paper, and chemicals sectors, amongst others, pose a severe threat to water resources around the world, particularly in the Global South. More than 2.8 billion people in 48 countries will face water stress or scarcity conditions by 2025, yet at the same time global water demand for manufacturing is expected to massively increase. For industrialization to be sustainable, it must be a process that reduces water use and improves the quality of wastewater. Enterprises, whether small, medium or large, must make more progress in evaluating and reducing their water use and that of their supply chains. Water-use efficiency across all sectors must improve to ensure sustainable withdrawals. Water pollution must be reduced and the release of hazardous chemicals and materials eliminated in order to improve water quality. The greening of industry can help ensure safe and clean water for all. MakingIt 3 makingit_19_pp4-5_contents.qxp_print 17/08/2015 17:05 Page 1 MakingIt IndustryforDevelopment Contents Editor: Charles Arthur [email protected] GLOBAL FORUM world where the productive Editorial committee: Manuel 6 Letters power of water is harnessed Albaladejo, Thouraya Benmokrane, Jean Haas-Makumbi, Sarwar 8 A post-GDP world Lorenzo and its destructive force is Hobohm (chair), Kazuki Kitaoka, Victoria Nussbaumer, Dejene Tezera, Fioramonti on why it’s time minimized and Ravindra Wickremasinghe Design: Smith+Bell, UK – to end the tyranny of Gross 18 Brewing watershed? www.smithplusbell.com Domestic Product Water is a vital ingredient for Thanks for assistance to ZHONG Xingfei and 10 Hot topic: How does brewers. Anna Swaithes Laura Gil Martínez Printed by Imprimerie emigration affect the people shows how SABMiller plc Centrale, Luxembourg, on PEFC-certified paper – left behind in poor countries? regards it as part of a broader http://www.ic.lu Paul Collier argues that global challenge To view this publication online and to participate in discussions about skilled migration from some 22 Greening industry, saving industry for development, please visit www.makingitmagazine.net low-income countries is so water in North Africa Igor To subscribe and receive future issues of Making It, please send an email high that it undermines the Volodin introduces a with your name and address to development prospects of programme demonstrating [email protected] Making It: Industry for Development people “left behind”. Justin the benefits of adopting best is published by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization Sandefur responds available techniques, cleaner (UNIDO), Vienna International Centre, production technology, and P.O. Box 300, 1400 Vienna, Austria Telephone: (+43-1) 26026-0, 14 Business matters – news appropriate environmental Fax: (+43-1) 26926-69 and trends management and E-mail: [email protected] Number 19, third quarter 2015 accounting practices Copyright © The United Nations Industrial Development Organization FEATURES 24 Is water the next carbon? No part of this publication can be 16The water-energy-food- used or reproduced without prior Results of a survey by DNV permission from the editor health nexus Ursula Schaefer- GL – Business Assurance ISSN 2076-8508 Preuss wants a water-secure which investigated the The designations employed and the importance of water issues presentation of the material in this magazine do not imply the expression of any opinion and the way companies deal whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) concerning the legal with them status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries, or its economic system or degree of KEYNOTE FEATURE development. Designations such as “developed”, “industrialized” and 26 How industry can address “developing” are intended for statistical convenience and do not necessarily express a critical water-related judgment about the stage reached by a particular country or area in the development challenges UNIDO’s Water process. Mention of firm names or commercial products does not constitute an Management Unit and John endorsement by UNIDO. The opinions, statistical data and estimates contained in signed articles are the Payne consider how industry responsibility of the author(s), including those who are UNIDO members of staff, and can use water for increasing should not be considered as reflecting the views or bearing the endorsement of UNIDO. economic activity without This document has been produced without formal United Nations editing. 16 degrading the environment 4 MakingIt makingit_19_pp4-5_contents.qxp_print 17/08/2015 17:05 Page 2 Cover image: www.istockphoto.com/claudiodivizia 32Tough love: China gets 26 serious about water pollution Debra Tan outlines China’s new plan to fight industrial and agricultural pollution of its drinking water sources 34An affordable water pump system using solar power Interview with Sunwater project leader, Paul Polak 36 Country feature: Tunisia –economic reforms to consolidate democracy plus interview with Yassine Brahim, Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation 40 Good business – Profile of Braskem, a Brazilian company converting sugarcane into plastic POLICY BRIEF 42 Ecological enterprise zones: next generation industrial strategy or fool’s gold? 44Three keys to successful industrial policy in developing countries 46 Endpiece Exploring climate change from a gender perspective MakingIt 5 makingit_19_pp6-13_globalforum.qxp_print 20/08/2015 10:44 Page 6 GLOBAL FORUM The Global Forum section of Making It is a space for interaction and discussion, and we welcome reactions and responses from readers about any of the issues raised in the magazine. Letters for publication in Making It should be marked ‘For publication’, and sent either by email to: [email protected] or by post to: The Editor, Making It, Room D2142, UNIDO, PO Box 300, 1400 Vienna, Austria. (Letters/emails may be edited for reasons of space). LETTERS Women engineers The ruins of The interview with Roma capitalism Agrawal (“Why we need more Dora Apel has written an women engineers”, Making It interesting article, The Ruins of issue number 18) is really Capitalism, about ruin imagery interesting, particularly where (see the Jacobin magazine she says that many women website). It gives a quirky twist study science with a view to on Seth Schindler’s piece becoming doctors. “We should (“Degrowth machine politics” tap into their motivation to on the Making It website). She help people and encourage says that by depicting urban Above: The interview with Roma Agrawal (“Why we need more women those who don’t go on to do engineers”) in Making lt number 18). “Investment in women boosts decay and ecological crisis, economic development, competitiveness, job creation and GDP”. medicine to do engineering”, ruin imagery shows the she says. people and places that meant the level of output that equilibrium. The OECD now She refers to an OECD capitalism left behind. can be achieved without expects the global economy report from 2011 that “showed Whereas Schindler writes that causing a rise in the rate of to expand this year by 3.1%, a that there is no intrinsic Detroit is managing inflation. It predicts that in sharp downgrade from last difference in the ability of men inevitable degrowth through the advanced economies the November’s forecast of 3.7%. and women in science and economic diversification and growth of potential output The revision follows a weak maths.” Recent evidence from appears able to create a viable would barely rise from an first quarter of 2015 for the the OECD shows that not only future within the existing average rate of 1.3% a year in global economy, the softest should we encourage women capitalist system, Apel says 2008-14 to 1.6 percent in since the great recession of to be engineers or similar Detroit is a global metaphor 2015-20. This is way below the 2008-2009, led by a sharp occupations on a moral basis for capitalist decline. pre-crisis rate of 2.25% in decline in the United States. but that in fact investment in GJohnny Johnson, website 2001-7. The IMF calculates that women boosts economic comment The IMF also predicts that private investment in the development, competitiveness, the “emerging market” advanced economies job creation and GDP. Mari Nicole Claes (in Letters, economies – the likes of declined by 25 percent in Kiviniemi, the OECD’s Deputy Making It issue number 18) China, India and Brazil – will 2008-14 compared to Secretary-General, said writes that the International slow down. Their rate of forecasts made in early 2007. recently.
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