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The EauMega Youth Declaration for the EauMega Conference is agreed by the EauMega Youth Steering Committee and revised by different youth networks and organizations related to water management from all across the world. The objective is to establish a commitment to taking practical measures to improve water management in megacities and call upon other young people to do the same.

The declaration calls everyone to stand up and participate in local and national actions to achieve better water management and urges adults to do more. The declaration also calls for more political will at the national and community levels to tackle the water-related challenges in megacities.

It urges not only the public in general but all stakeholders to take action and give also worth to the actions of youth and vulnerable groups and communities when facing all impacts that global change brings in terms of water management. It highlights measures to be implemented and a shift of paradigm.

A study of how Swedish companies are affected financially in the event of an interruption in the water supply

Authors: Karin Sjöstrand and Josefine Klingberg, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Noor Sedehi Zadeh, VTI Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute

Summary: How are companies in different industries affected by water supply disruptions? The project has collected information from more than 1,400 Swedish companies. Based on the survey results, resilience factors have been calculated for 35 different industries. The factors provide a measure of the proportion of companies’ operations that can be maintained in the event of an interruption. They can be used, for example, to calculate interruption risks and estimate the benefits of risk reduction measures. They also provide a basis for in-depth dialogue between drinking water producers and companies.

Keywords: Water supply outage, critical infrastructure disruption, economic loss, business interruption, resiliency factor, risk reduction