BESC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paradigm Shift, Ecosystem Services, Water Security
25 Apr 2017
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End of cheap and abundant water; more expensive to access. Redefining sectors such as politics, economics, and society. 1000 tons of water in the food we eat; 6000 gallons in the food we wear; industry will stop if no clean water is available. Semiconductor plant uses water as much as 60,000 people. Required energy will not be able to be acquired in a water shortage. Thermal solar energy and other types are needed more where there is already water shortage. Biofuels (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e (cid:271)uilt up (cid:449)ith the a(cid:373)ou(cid:374)t of (cid:449)ater (cid:449)e (cid:374)eed. There will be a struggle of power and wealth creation with water resources. Revolution: mass scale irrigation, managed by water engineers. 33 bc: three decaying aquiducts cleaned and built up; provision of public water supply for rich and poor. Demographic transition made possible by professionals lounging the sanitary revolution. Parliamentary feared diseases would affect them and started to do something.
