EARTHSC 2WW3 Lecture 7: Earth Science-Lecture 7 notes- Trading Water & Justice.pdf
9 Dec 2012
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Trading water and justice: 4what is the name of the hurricane, expected to make landfall in the next few hours, rosemary, sandy, laura, stacy. Have expanded suddenly with the development of the bottled water industry. Water exports have expanded suddenly with the development of the bottled water. This has been accompanied by the growth of bulk shipping which with the use of commissioned oil tankers although now the sipping is done in large plastic containers. For instance as part of an agreement with israel certain countries ship water in large industry containers. Either in bottles, or large containers: varies markedly from region to region. Western europe is the largest overall consumer with a per capita consumption of 104. The lowest per capita worldwide consumption is found in asia; 8 l/year/person which reflects the overall levels of effluents. International real water trading is: a drop in the ocean in comparison to virtual water that is being traded.
