The Water Paradox: The Future of Water
Publisher: Yale University Press
Author(s): Edward Barbier
Date: 2019
Topics: Climate Change, Economic Recovery, Renewable Resources
If water is valuable and scarce, why is it so poorly managed? Up to now, we have adopted only one approach to resolving this water paradox. We ignore the signs of growing water scarcity, until sudden and unexpected shortages force us to take drastic measures to curtail excessive use. This is proving to be a costly response to water crises—as the following example illustrates. In 2017, for the first time in 2,000 years, Rome turned off its iconic drinking fountains.