> The commission found that governments and experts have vastly underestimated the amount of water needed for people to have decent lives. While 50 to 100 litre

> The commission found that governments and experts have vastly underestimated the amount of water needed for people to have decent lives. While 50 to 100 litres a day are required for each person’s health and hygiene, in fact people require about 4,000 litres a day in order to have adequate nutrition and a dignified life. This formulation grants an amount of wiggle room that makes the whole exercise pointless. Experts were previously wrong because they used a different definition of what "decent" and "dignified" mean? The resulting difference in water demand from upgrading a "dignified life" is a 40x-80x increase! If you can simply pick an arbitrary definition of what's good enough and then declare a crisis on the back of the new definition, there will never not be a crisis because declaring crises is how the NGO sector gins up funding and attention.