Life without water

From the stunning development of Doha in a country with no water to ancient water harvesting technologies in India. From a portable water-filteringtechnology to market mechanisms to incentivize water conservation. Listen to seven talks about the challenge of water scarcity and the way to tackle it: http://bit.ly/U31ZnM

Share some examples and tell us your viewonhow to bestaddress water scarcity.

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1. Dear All, WATER is elixir of life. Also the WATER is the Gift of Nature. So our Approach should be for all protection of the NATURE, especially against the the anthropogenic adversaries. Nowadays the local Community based approaches are being taken over by the market oriented commercial enterprises. Such market based approaches very often neglect the long term after affects and are less sensitives for water conservation. The technologies to be adopted with a priority for the benefits to the community and should be selected based on the following : (a) Users' friendliness and simple & easy O&M approach. (b) Adaptability to the local region specific conditions. (c) Taking care of adversaries. (d) Without posing any treat to the Culture & Practice of the Community. Thanking you. Regards. Nripendra Kumar Sarma Guwahati, Assam, India

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   1. Wonderful comment my friend. Thank you.

2. It is unimaginable to think a life without water....though..COnsidering the old case when there was no fuel and electicity but people lived happily then too....till then we have not imagined and never seen any such scenario with NO WATER ......which I m sure would happen soon...BUT...I trully believe in NATURE....if there will not be any water in future ...there must be some thing to replace...WATER ....the catch is we need to find that SOMETHING in NATURE....FINALLY ....NEED IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION....isnt it ?

3. Life without was just like a world without women so its not posible it will remain in any shape even in shape of air vapours, Can you imangine a life without beauty so its a part of beauty water a beautiful name pani ya khatam nehi ho saqta even in ha

4. Renewable energies and desalination indeed seem to be a viable solution for dry areas. The World Bank recently published a book on "sun-powered desal: a gateway to meeting MENA's water needs" http://bit.ly/Xitl3Z It is an extremely interesting overview of supply and demand side water mangement option in the Middle East and North Africa region with a focus on the substitution of traditional fossil fuels with renewables to power desalination. Let me know your view!

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   1. The World Bank?

5. My country libya has the same climatic conditions Qatar almost,rainfall on Libya became rare during the last decades, i think we have many technologies, but all of them needs energy to collect potable water for example solar energy, libya has high rate of solar radiation on summer the average all solar radiation on the horizontal surface for july 8 kw.h/m2/day and January at 4 kw.h/m2/day,I think the best solution is renewable energies with MED or RO or together.

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   1. Hello Amhmed, I agree with you: the water problem is directly linked with the energy issue. Clean energy seems to be the keystone of sustainable development and solar, as well as geothermal, tidal and wind technologies could be combined to improve the implementation of desalinization.