Devi Sridhar

But tying into here, the idea that water is something that if you do not have, you die of.

It is not a luxury.

It is not a commodity.

But in many places in the world, bottled water is actually the main provider of water.

And that's true in parts of the States, depending where you live.

It's true in

Egypt, across much of the developing world.

And so looking at actually what does water provision mean?

How do we get that right?

And learning the lessons of building those kind of infrastructure and systems so people don't have to think about water.

It's something that just comes out of your tap.

It's clean and it's filtered.

Here in Britain, the issue has been not the provision of clean water.

It's been actually the mixing of sewage into our waterways and like dumping untreated sewage into rivers, canals, beaches.

And then lo and behold, people get sick.

Everyone's like, why are they sick?

There's a lot of E. coli sitting on beaches.

And so I brought up that example to say even in places like Britain, which are very advanced, and in the States, I talk about Jackson, a place where it keeps the water system has not been invested in.

You have schools closed down because they have no water they can provide to their students.

But actually, we can't let those gains go.