02-01 Israel
Israel has one of the most entrepreneurial cultures anywhere. It is an innovation nation. It is also a nation that is water stressed so it is no surprise that it leads in water technologies like sewage treatment. drip irrigation, desalination, dual flush toilets and air to water. Its water engineering is also an instrument for…
02-02 Egypt
Egypt is another nation in the Middle East that is water stressed. For years its people have lived off the polluted water of the Nile River. Now what flows down the Nile have been slowed by the huge dam in Ethiopia, Egypt is moving to updated technology to treat sewage and desalinate the water of…
02-03 China
A nation with 20% of the world’s population has only 7% of the world’s fresh water. And China is also a nation with most of its agriculture in the north but its supplies of fresh water in the south. Something like 400 cities in the north face a future water crisis. It was 1985, and…
02-05 Pakistan
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) ranks Pakistan as the third most water scarce nation in the world. It is more than climate change. It is also waste, corruption and mismanagement. Anyone want to buy a water truck. It is big business, or shall we call it mafia business, in Pakistan. Criminal groups steal the water…
02-06 Cambodia
Nations in the Indo China peninsula are dependent on the Mekong River system for drinking water and for creating rice-patties. Combine sand mining, dams, inadequate sewage systems and climate change and we have water stressed areas. Cambodia is ranked as the 7th most seriously water impacted nation in the world. Over the years I have…
02-07 Chad
An ongoing civil war between Muslims in the North and Christians in the South ensures Chad will remain an undeveloped water-stressed nation despite major reserves of resources. It’s amazing what you learn chatting with folks as opposed to searching the Internet. I met an official of the Chad government at the International Small Business Congress…
02-08 Ethiopia
A nation with water and lush forests in the west and dry arid areas in the east. A monster dam nearly completed and financed by China will give the nation a supply of electricity for development. But the dam will enable Ethiopia to control the flow of water in the Nile that is critical to…
02-09 Afghanistan
How do you attract investment to upgrade Afghanistan’s water infrastructure when civil war is possible after the USA leaves? You don’t. India is a more natural long-term partner in developing dams and water canals because it was not a participant in the US led war. The USA and its allies are leaving Afghanistan after a…
02-10 Syria
Syria is a semi-arid nation suffering from political instability, civil war and its neighbour Turkey playing water politics. 88 percent of the water from the Euphrates that runs through Syria originates in Turkey. A delegation from Turkey made a proposal to the governing body of the International Small Business Congress in the late 1980s. We…
02-11 Haiti
Haiti’s tragedy is more than poverty, but an earthquake in 2010 that destroyed much of its water infrastructure. And, surprise, surprise, it is China offering to provide the capital to rebuild the nation. Another future Chinese satellite in America’s back yard. There are a couple of memories that help understand Haiti, possibly the most impoverished…