'Water shortages should be reclassified as unwise water use,' expert says • FRANCE 24 English
Large swathes of Asia continue to swelter though a dramatic heatwave that has topped temperature records all the way from India to the Philippines. Bangladesh has faced the hottest April on record, with temperatures forcing millions of children to stay home from school and making working in the scorching heat difficult for millions. The heatwave is also leading to water shortages. But that term is one that water supply expert Isha Ray from the University of California, Berkeley does not like. She has been speaking at a conference in Paris called "Facing Environmental Crisis in South Asia" and told us in Perspective why she thinks the term is misleading.
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Very insightful 👌👍
I wonder if you correleate adequate drought management by the governments with the level of corruption/tyranny in that goverment what you would find.
The leaders of these countries are very rich, full of themselves, very proud of their money. These leaders should be put on the Shameful panel!!
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The speaker is doing tremendous harm to future generations of people by ignoring overpopulation. Right now, Ukraine, Brazil, Argentina, the US. Canada and a handful of other countries are still producing more food/calories than they consume. That number is rapidly declining. Gaza, Haiti, Cuba, Sudan. Bangladesh, India, England, Singapore, are all one bad global harvest away from starvation. Poorer countries are a 20% rise in food, water, energy and fertilizer prices away from famine, economic collapse and civil conflict. Further, Egypt will soon be at war with the countries of the Upper Nile and Iraq and Iran will soon be at war with Turkey, over water diversions. Tensions between India and Pakistan and China will also escalate to war over control of river headwaters in the Himalaya. As populations continue to increase causing aquifers and rivers to be polluted and pumped dry, this starvation and conflict is inevitable. And the US military calls the climate crisis a “threat multiplier”. So the droughts and crop failures that would have caused a minor bump in food and water prices in the past, will cause starvation and mass migrations and bloody wars in the near future. Anyone who cares at all about the wellbeing of their fellow humans has to have the courage and intellectual honesty to discuss overpopulation.
And I mention rich countries like England and Singapore, and also rich but unequal countries like the US because rising food prices are leading to increasing food insecurity for their poor. 1/4 of American children currently live in poverty with uncertain access to food, housing, healthcare and education. Food and water prices don’t have to rise much, even in the very rich but mostly poor US, for many more children to become malnourished.
And, the US, Spain, Mexico, South Africa, and other countries behave In recent years skirted with massive internal migrations as water availability is reduced by droughts and overtapped by burgeoning populations. Mexico City, a mega, megacity of 25 million, could run out of water this year. The American desert state of Arizona almost saw water needs exceed supplies in the last few years. Arizona has doubled or more in population in recent decades.