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Water is Life
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We interviewed environmental campaigner Kate Ellis about lessons we can
from the past.
INTERVIEWER:
Why are you so
about water?
KATE:
Because it’s
to life. Water will be as
in the twenty-first century as oil was in the twentieth. By 2025 two-thirds of the world’s population may face a shortage of water.
INTERVIEWER:
So what are governments doing about it?
KATE:
They’ve
about the problem for a long time. They started building more large
to store water in the 1990s. But there have been many mistakes.
INTERVIEWER:
What kind of mistakes?
KATE:
By the end of the twentieth century there were more than 50,000
dams on more than half the world’s
rivers. These dams have
species,
huge areas of land and
tens of millions of people.
INTERVIEWER:
In other words, you think governments shouldn’t have built so many dams.
KATE:
That’s right. They should have
about the human cost and they ought to have
the environmental consequences. Dams can be used to
electricity as well as to
water, and they’re positive aspects. But I’m
that more dam building projects are
now, for example in Africa, when people should have
lessons from the mistakes of the past.
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