Acceptance of the link ...
Published by Ashantha Goonetilleke, Professor, Water/Environmental Engineering at Queensland University of Technology
Acceptance of the link between lack of access to water, poverty and civil conflict which poses a threat to the world including the developed countries and affluent and politically influential segments of our society. Until this link is clearly acknowledged by society and our political leaders, steps to solve the water crisis is going to piecemeal and sometimes lacking in sincerity. We will take an issue seriously only if we feel that our way of life is being threatened and our comfort zone is no longer safe.
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I disagee. Even if a society in an arid region is well educated about the imprtance of water, and the chance to total collapse if they misuse the water, they unlikly to change, especially if the population is growing. On the contrary, some prepare for immigration, some to conserve the remaining few natural resources for themselves, and everyone prepares for war and conflict in his/her mind. The eduated refuges arriving to Europe are all conscious about the problems of natural resources and overpopulation of their formal home, and hope that they will not need to face the same problems in Germany. The serious problems of water in Jemen were known back 35 years ago, they received U.N aides, there are published papers about the groundwater of their country, and nothing could prevent their civil war.
Published by Arpad Lorberer, Geoscientist