Water Scarcity for Ecolint Geography Conference: 5 of 5

The great thing about geography is the way that it constantly throws up new things...
And the great thing about Twitter is the way that new leads constantly appear

So here is a diagram that arrived this morning - just as I'm rounding off some resources for WATER SCARCITY for the Ecolint Geography conference...
It's been produced by the USGS, and the blue sphere that you can see there actually contains ALL the world's water...
Does this help get across the importance of looking after what we have ?

Source of the image is here...

Credit: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; USGS..
Data source: Igor Shiklomanov's chapter "World fresh water resources" in Peter H. Gleick (editor), 1993, Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources (Oxford University Press, New York).


World Water Day, earlier in the year, explored some ideas for re-using water...
We will mention a similar scheme in Singapore...


Here's a useful video for that....




I look forward to working with everyone in Geneva on Friday.
The weather forecast is good...

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