Water-dependent employment (~1.7B jobs) sits within Water, the item more essential than any traded good, yet the least marketized on this list — a category with a real, cited scale: $1.04T infrastructure investment need for universal water access and sanitation by 2030 (World Bank). Unlike 14 of the category's 20 items, water-dependent employment (~1.7B jobs) has no institution reliably publishing this data — this is one of only 6 items in Water that stay editorial judgment rather than institutionally sourced.
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Water-dependent employment (~1.7B jobs) is 1 of 20 items in Water. See the full ranked list, or browse all 20 Human Endeavors categories.