Publised in Global Water Intel International, 2006
Ecological Management Foundation chairman Allerd Stikker argues that the institutions and NGOs concerned with the world’s water challenges should take desalination more seriously.
Remarkably, major institutions that report extensively on the world water issue, such as the World Resources Institute and the World Watch Institute in Washington, the World Wide Fund for Nature and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Geneva, the United Nations Millennium Development Goal Taskforce in New York as well as the World Water Council and the Global Water Partnership, do not take into account the potential role of desalination in water scarcity prevention.
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Turning their back on the oceans