Episode 4 – Water Scarcity
By Pat Thomas, 22/10/10 Deep Fried Planet
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After a short break due to special programming, we are back and talking about water scarcity. Imagine a world without it; without the inability to simply turn a tap and get as much as you want or need. And unlike oil there’s no alternative water there’s no water substitute. Let this thought really settle in your bones and then perhaps crisis isn’t a strong enough word.To talk through the issue is Jacob Tompkins Director of the UK charity Waterwise and Professor Peter Guthrie head of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Cambridge University, and lead author of the report, Global Water Security: An Engineering Perspective, which was published earlier this year.
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