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As climate changes, is water the new oil?

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on March 23, 2009 at 7:53 am

Whoops, yesterday was World Water Day. I knew that, but in the haste to make it out the door in the morning, it slipped my mind. However, not my fellow bloggers, so click here to see how other bloggers celebrated the day. And in the meantime, here’s a wrap up of the World Water Forum from Reuters News:

If water is the new oil, is blue the new green? Translation: if water is now the kind of precious commodity that oil became in the 20th century, should delivery of clean water be the same sort of powerful political force as the environmental movement in an age of climate change? And, in another sense of green, is there money to be made in a time of water scarcity?

The answer to both questions, according to environmental activists watching a global forum on water, is yes.

The week-long meeting in Istanbul ends Sunday, which is International World Water Day, an annual United Nations event that began in 1993 to focus attention on sustainable management of fresh water resources.

The yearly observance recognizes water as an absolute human need: people can live as much as 30 days without food but only seven without water. How long can a person live without oil?

Read more from Reuters News by clicking here.

March 23, 2009 · Filed Under International Water Issues

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One Response to “As climate changes, is water the new oil?”

  1. WaterSource on March 24th, 2009 5:30 am

    Yawn … Environmentalists put me to sleep as much as a new Source to keep Lake Mead reasonably FULL and producing 2000 megawatts of renewable energy puts them on snooze.

    Environmentalists are not interested that minor instantaneous releases from Lake Mead could restore the Colorado River Delta which they have determined to be worth 2.4 Billion $$ a year.

    Limited groundwater supplies in critical habitat areas of NV & CA will not last long.

    An alternative Source exists, but nap time at the gloom and doom meeting is more important than any investigation to verify that development of a new fresh water Source can be developed without damage to the environment or the water rights of anyone, anywhere … proclaiming woe-is-us is evidently, so much more rewarding …

    WaterSource
    waterrdw@yahoo.com

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