Saturday, November 20, 2010
Overpumping Drawing Down World's Groundwater Reserves
Overpumping Drawing Down World's Groundwater Reserves
This is why it is so crucial to have investment in water infrastructure, drip irrigation, rainwater catchement, strict penalties regarding private companies depleting gorundwater resources for profit such as as Coca Cola in India. And also, a climate treaty that takes into account water issues and climate change issues that are intertwined such as glacier melt, floods, and sea level rise as well as drought. What is even more important is educating people as to the hydrologic cycle and how we as humans are now changing its course which must spur conservation. This is the moral crisis of the 21st century.
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