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Tenacity and technology: Current freshwater crisis has solutions, Scientific American article explains

July 24, 2008


As demand for water skyrockets and droughts abound, an article in the recent Scientific American presents a six-point plan to mitigate the world’s water woes. Water infrastructure must change for the better, it declares.

Author Dr. Peter P. Rogers, senior adviser to the Global Water Partnership and professor of Environmental Engineering and of City and Regional Planning at Harvard University, explains how a collective movement can address the challenges the world faces concerning its use of water.

For another voice on the freshwater crisis, listen to a

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with Scientific American’s editor, Steve Ashley.

Read more here and here.

Source: Scientific American, WaterWired

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  1. Caroline Useman on July 31st, 2008 6:24 am

    what are your thoughts on using live vegetative bacteria to eradicate organic waste?

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