Water Wars?

A very wise professor I had at the University of Lethbridge once remarked that "future wars will be fought not over gold or oil but over water". While you may have not been there, I think you can get a pretty good idea what he means in this great documentary that I recently had the pleasure of watching....
 Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008) 

The movie brings home the necessity of fresh H2O in our survival and how this often taken for granted essential resource is being extracted, polluted and depleted in front of our own eyes. 


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Summary: If your interested in our Earth's future and/ or water conservation, add this to your "To watch" list.

The movie's website is a great resource for information and resources... even including action plans!
Check out this blurb from the site...then click 2 follow the link.


"Water is a basic human right, the right to survive. "Blue Gold" reports on various powers trying to take control of the public's water for profit and control. These powers fail to realize that people will not allow their water to be taken. People fight, because they must.  

.... and I couldn't do a feature about water conservation without sneaking my favorite Sesame Street cartoon. (Also seen in Top 10 Eco-Friendly Kids Cartoons)

One proposed and currently researched method of attaining fresh water is through the process of desalination. See more details in the blurb or follow the link for the full National Geographic article. 

"This story is part of a special National Geographic News series on global water issues.

With 1.8 billion people predicted to live in areas of extreme water scarcity by 2025, desalination—the removal of salt from water—is increasingly being proposed as a solution.

But before desalination can make a real difference solving in the looming water crisis, officials and experts need to commit to overcoming obstacles that make the process expensive and inefficient, a new paper argues.

(Read National Geographic magazine's special water issue online.)"

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110804-fresh-water-crisis-desalination-environment-science/

Peace,
FB