Why Water is the New Oil
Steven Solomon had a simple answer to why water beats oil for world’s most precious resource. “You can’t drink oil, and you can’t grow food with it,” he said to the standing-room-only crowd at the RAND Corporation. Solomon, author of Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, explained how intrinsic water is to the way we live – from what we wear to the cars we drive and the computers we use – and how its scarcity drives economic, environmental, and political conflicts around the world. 3,000 …
