Water, water everywhere; nor any drop to drink? (Centre for Energy Studies Conference)
by CambridgeJBS · 9 episodes
It's the resource that we take most for granted when we have access to it, yet it is also the resource that challenges the world most in terms of wide variations in whether we have too much or too little of it. Water is a basic necessity of life, or as some are now saying a basic human rights issue, yet world leaders are only just getting to grips with the true magnitude of the crisis now facing the globe in terms of climate change and its variability on water resources. Africa, with its 53 countries and 1 billion people is the...
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