Monday, March 23, 2009

As climate changes, is water the new oil?

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN21529713
If water is the new oil, is blue the new green?

Translation: if water is now the kind of precious commodity that oil became in the 20th century, should delivery of clean water be the same sort of powerful political force as the environmental movement in an age of climate change?

And, in another sense of green, is there money to be made in a time of water scarcity?