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Asit K. Biswas Lecture: Global Water Crisis – Myth or Reality?
March 18, 2010 | Posted by Michael "Aquadoc" Campana
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Thanks to Daniel Collins at Cr!key Creek for alerting me to this. Here is what Daniel says about Dr. Biswas’ lecture:
Asit Biswas, an expert in international water resource management, has changed his mind. He no longer believes a world water crisis is a crisis of physical supply. It is, instead, a crisis of management. He also does not believe wars will be fought over water.[emboldening mine] What gives? Have a listen.
Biswas gave his presentation, “Global Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?”, at the Nobel Conference 45 hosted by Gustavus Adolphus College.
From the site:
There are a lot of psychological hang-ups that have to go in the next few years. In the U.S., the hang-up is about recycled water. We all drink reused water. We recycle it, treat it, then dump it into the reservoir and it gets mixed up. Nobody knows. This happens everywhere, even in the U.S. In Singapore, they have tried blind tests with recycled water and bottled water. Surprisingly, the majority seems to like recycled water. But if you take recycled water per se, which is much easier and it’s a good resource, once people, especially in the U.S., realize it is recycled water, they don’t want to drink it. It’s just psychological.
Here is a link to the video.
Visit the conference site to access water lectures by Peter Gleick, Will Graf, Nancy Rabalais, and others.
“Nothing exists but atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. “ –Demokritos
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