Water Resources: the Blue Capital
-- a note from _kt75 In continuation of the recent article on prospective water prices [ 1 ] this article provides a brief and overall impression of how sustainable water management might be affected by environmental, technical, economic and geo-political conditions in the future. In principle, water shouldn't be considered as an commercial entity (subject to speculation) rather as a global and (preferably) commonly available good. The reality however, looks different: increasingly, but not yet recognized by the broad public, water has become a strong, almost unique issue. It is already today the 'blue gold' with a rather limited access [ 2 ]-[ 5 ]. The latter aspect will accentuate in the future and the situations to come can be formulated as follows: Schematic sketch of the global water conditions and their likely development in the future. Regions with stable water conditions (blue line regions, low risk regions), regions with rather stable water conditions ...