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Water Scarcity Can’t Be Solved Alone

Written by Richard Tomlinson

By 2025, 48 of the world’s nations will face water stress or scarcity. In just the next four years, 30% of U.S. cities will experience a water crisis. As the world population continues to grow, water will become an ever-more-precious resource.

If we don’t work together to address them now, the challenges we face today will be the same challenges we face tomorrow—but on a much larger scale.

In some growing cities, water usage has risen 800 percent. Rapid urbanization puts stress on our water resources, but the loss of fresh water around the world only adds to the pressure. In some parts of the world, desertification is quite significant. And where fresh water goes scarce, access can become limited.

In his recent video blog, Richard Tomlinson, managing partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, says we can’t let politics get in the way of the larger issue. We have to make water conservation a priority if we expect our available resources to sustain us well into the future.

“You can’t solve it individually. You have to erase the boundaries; you have to erase the borders; you have to erase the jurisdictions; you have to erase politics,” Tomlinson says.

http://www.ourwatercounts.com/blog/index.php/2014/02/19/water-scarcity-cant-solved-alone/