Nestle CEO Paul Bulcke Says Water Scarcity ‘Must Be Addressed Urgently’ To Avoid Food Shortages
When I read this sort of stuff, I wonder how shallow some people are. Are they incapable of thinking beyond the first step? Do they bother to seek information? Do they look at history and try to apply some lessons of the past to today.
For those who haven’t or can’t, WE CAN’T RUN OUT OF WATER!!!
Water doesn’t go away. The distribution may change, and more importantly, the population distribution may change, but water? We have plenty.
It is beyond me that a person of such position doesn’t understand human nature, history, resource availability, potential, and natural technological advancements.
For over a millennium, humanity has demonstrated the ability to move water hundreds of miles. We can more it thousands if necessary. In the future, as it is today, any shortage of food comes not from the availability of water, but apathy and the lack of the collective will.
These idiotic Chicken Littles need to be removed from the public forum.
suyts space 
If he was intelligent he’d ring up the Israelis, who have been making the desert bloom for many years using merest drips of water.
Or he can ask our Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery if he could part with any of the $10 billion worth of useless desalination plants he caused us to build because rain would not fill our dams ever again.
Which are overflowing as we speak.
You mean, you guys didn’t use up all your water?
Once we were doing a project in our labs which needed 10,000 gal of sea water, since that was what we were going to use if the project was ever built at full scale.
So we rang up the EPA and asked could we go down to the sea, a couple miles away, and fill a tanker truck with some sea water.
Ah, no. This does not compute, taking authentic sea water from the sea. After weeks of wrangling we gave up and made a batch of fake sea water from tap water plus purchased 25kg bags of sea salt.
Moral to the tale is if government bureaucrats think that water has run out it has run out. That the sea is wet is just a right wing conspiracy theory.
Clearly, the test was flawed anyway. You guys should have just modeled the sea water. 😉
In a bikini no less.
Of course! 😉
You do not have to go all the way to the Middle East. Check out parts of the desert southwest where the same thing is happening.
Man is a resourceful creature.
When left alone to pursue his own self interests, within the rule of law. 🙂
I think you mean ‘within the rule of reason’. 😉
Here is what Paul should really be wetting himself over…
http://www.petitiononline.com/BanDHM/petition.html
No, really. Someone should send him this. 😉
Meanwhile it is raining heavily again where I am 100 miles north of Sydney. Third wet summer in a row. Sydney is soaking too. Their main dam is spilling over yet again. It must be virtual water that is overflowing since Flannery said:
Water restrictions were lifted over 3 years ago.