14-01 The Issues
It’s funny, the things you remember from high school. But I remember clearly our English teacher in grade 12 reading the poem called “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. And this part of a verse has stayed with me over the years, “Water, water everywhere, and nor a drop to drink.”It was about a ship…
14-02 Scarcity
You have heard the expression that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well the photo of a woman from the Mwamanougu village in Tanzania drawing water from the dry sand of a river bottom tells you the real story of water scarcity. And usually this kind of water source is polluted.Without getting techy, it…
14-03 Desalination
Isn’t it interesting that if you boil salt water, the steam will not contain any of the salt. So, if you can condense the steam you have drinkable water. This process is called distillation and is the basis for one form of desalination.When the Canadian navy was trying to build public support for purchasing a…
14-04 Climate Change
The issue of climate change did not engage me until I was on a cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula in 2009. And it was a discussion period with seven scientists from the Polish Research Centre that made me a believer.What made them so convincing was their view, and they called it a minority opinion, that…