Yesterday, we staged WASH Works, our parallel event at the United Nations Water Conference, with some pretty fervent debate. Incredibly, the last time the U.N. held such an event, former U.S. President Richard Nixon held office, the World Trade Center became the world’s tallest building, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, Devex didn’t exist, and neither did most of our reporters.
Also in today’s edition: Could U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris help push water policy to the fore? Splash CEO explains success, and we look at the water crisis.
Water in crisis! That was the name of one of our panels on water, sanitation and hygiene, or WASH, and it couldn’t be truer. We heard this week that 2 billion people don’t have clean drinking water, and 3.6 billion can’t access safely managed sanitation.
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Helen Murphy
Helen is an award-winning journalist and Senior Editor at Devex, where she edits coverage on global development in the Americas. Based in Colombia, she previously covered war, politics, financial markets, and general news for Reuters, where she headed the bureau, and for Bloomberg in Colombia and Argentina, where she witnessed the financial meltdown. She started her career in London as a reporter for Euromoney Publications before moving to Hong Kong to work for a daily newspaper.
