Rio Tinto’s CEO on managing water strategically

McKinsey recently interviewed Tom Albanese about how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations to a future when climate change may make the world’s dry parts drier and wet parts wetter – the link to the video is here and a pdf transcript is here. Water management has become a strategic issue for Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining groups, whose operations tend to be located in areas that are either arid or plagued by torrential rains.