New Water Policy and Practice Volume 1, Number 1 - Fall 2014 | Page 26

New Water Policy and Practice

approved the “Water Opportunities Act” as
a means of better engaging the private sector and creating new economic activities.
A number of ensuing actions, including a
Water Technologies Acceleration Project
(or WaterTAP), have demonstrated that creating the right incentives can yield positive
results in both economic and political sense.

Gaps in knowledge and scientific evidence play a relatively minor role in achieving gainful engagement of the private sector.
Nonetheless, the most obvious gap is in not
having successful business models f