...we all remain blissfully unaware that at the current rates of global consumption, by 2025 the demand for fresh water will have risen to 56% more than is currently available. Its time to STOP turning potable water into sewage...
Extract - WORLD WATER FORUM - "Conventional Sewerage Systems ARE NOT the right answer" Bengt JOHANSSON - UN Environmental Programme.
At the 2002 Earth Summit in South Africa the introduction of flush toilets into developing, water stressed countries was widely deplored as have a negative effect. They were actually described as a curse.
In 1995 Ismail Serageldin then Chairman of the Consulting Group on International Agricultural Research stated that ?If the wars of this century were fought over oil the wars of the next will be fought over Water?. Now in 2009, they have erupted in parts of Africa and Asia with rising tensions in America and Australia to name but two.
And in a letter to Congress dated 18 November 1968, Lyndon B Johnson the 36th President of the USA stated ?A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear and are written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.?