Data gathered by global information and measurement provider Nielsen as part of its 2011 Global Online Environment & Sustainability survey, revealed that worldwide concern for global warming had slipped in priority with global consumers from 72% in 2007 to 66% in 2009. In contrast, issues such as water and air pollution have been rated as a higher priority with three out of four global consumers rating them as top concerns at 75% and 77% respectively.
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What is it that prevents us from being able to clean waste water?
There are many hindrances. The first is - the legend about membranes technology and resistance from their producers' site to other solutions. Total resistance to new ideas. No one is going to change routine order of things because it means efforts. This list can be very very long. But something should be changed on the edge of existence. According to WWF the fresh water will be ended at 2030.
So what you are saying is, it isn't the ability to clean the water. It is people just don't want too do it?
Yes, you are right. The main factor is people.
It sounds like, that some people (the powers that be) are trying to monopolize, on the water situation. Kind of like, if a major corporation had control of the water... Just an opinion.
Again with an opinion, this is not to dissimilar from OPEC?
The United Nations Third World Water Development Report (2009) has defined sum of $148 billion, which should be invested in water supplies and waste-water services annually to 2025. That figure reflects chronic underinvestment in water infrastructure. This problem manifests not only for the developing world, but also in advanced economics, which will need to make considerable investments in the coming years.
I know that UN is a collection of the bureaucrats, but sometime they are right.
Do you know what investor wants? A quick return of investment. ROI calculation is one of the first issue in each business plan.
Water investments cannot bring quick return like PC soft or entertainment. It is in general.
In particular, who is involved in this discussion except three members?
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It shows that there are many persons ready to talk but do nothing. Can you imagine what will be when average 76% of population will start to act and are going to require fresh water.
I was getting a little carried away.
What would happen if, some "entity" had control over a country's water supply.
First making the source of water scarce, then supplying it, then being able to charge what ever they wanted for the water... This is the parallel, I was using with OPEC, controlling oil supply.
It isn't oil. Calculate, please, a water prices in your region and they changing at last 5 -10 years.
Second solution: it is cause for war or revolution. The global war I mean.
I never said it was oil, I said it was a parallelism to OPEC controlling oil prices, supply and demand. I also said it was an opinion.
The oil is a commodity. Water is a life necessity. It is possible to substitute oil but how is substituted potable water? Thus, even will be a club of water holders, it will be a temporary union without relations like in OPEC. It is reality that some wars in XX have been started when rules of oil trading did not satisfy other parties. What will be with the prices in condition of total water scarcity?
The people who are capable of cleaning the water would be in control of the price of the water.
Sorry. I capable, I've worked out effective systems for purification and water conservation. Many methods were used to stop me up to falsification data of tests, direct threats and creation hindrances. These installations are working. But water prices are still out of my control.
Here is a fresh illustration. "President Obama on Friday scuttled the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) smog rule, saying that he had underscored the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty. The decision has dealt a blow to environmental groups" "EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson had said that the new ozone standard would be based on the "best science" and meet the obligation established under the Clean Air Act to protect the health of Americans. "In implementing this new standard, EPA will use the long-standing flexibility in the Clean Air Act to consider costs, jobs and the economy. But in a stunning turnaround, President Obama—who had been under immense pressure from industry groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute, to thwart the rule tightening Bush-era ozone standards—returned the draft to the EPA for "reconsideration."
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