global economic crisis solutions

global economic crisis solutions

Global Water Crisis

Peter Rogers, Professor of City and Regional Planning at Harvard University has written an impressive article entitled Facing Freshwater Crisis in the August 2008 issue of the monthly Scientific American which I read regularly because it puts all facets of science in popular language for easy one’s understanding.

The article starts with the condition of freshwater availability at New Delhi, the capital of India.

It induced more interest for me to go through the article.

Water is shared by human beings and agricultural crops, which are turn required as food for humans.

Scarcity of freshwater by mid-century has been forecasted by the United Nations.

As the human activities increase because of intensive industrialization, pollution of environment results in.

Even the available water is contaminated causing health hazards to human beings and animals.

Water is again not equally distributed.

In some regions we have plenty of water due to good rains whereas other regions are drought affected.

Water supplies in the whole world vary considerably.

Much of the Americas and northern Eurasia enjoy abundant water supplies.

Other areas, Central Africa, part of Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia suffer with water scarcity.

That was one of the reasons, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) established ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics) at Hyderabad, India to research on semi-arid crops of Africa and Asia.

In fact, the quantity of water used by cities and industries from the total precipitation is only 0.1%.

What happens to the rest of the 99.9%?

Major quantity flows through lands and rest ends up in oceans.

It appears, each person on earth needs a minimum of 1000 cubic meters of water per year for drinking, hygiene and growing food for sustenance.

Scientists have calculated the amount of water used to produce a kilogram of wheat is about 1000 litre of water and when a country is exporting millions of tons of wheat, one can imagine how much water has been used to produce that much of grains.

It is a huge quantity of water, crop production requires every season for every crop farmer grow.

Many steps have been taken to conserve water and minimize the water requirement of crops.

Water management, one of the important branches of Agronomy, is developing technologies to conserve moisture in the soil.

Sprinkler and drip irrigations instead of surface irrigation help a great deal to save irrigation water.

Mulching is another technology for preventing the evaporation of moisture from soil.

Crops and crop varieties that require less water to produce unit mass of dry matter are being tried.

We see large quantity of water in the sea around our land area, but the water is salty; not a drop to drink!

How to desalinize such vast quantity of water available free to us?

Desalinization technology such as membrane reverse-osmosis systems will secure new source of potable water.

During reverse osmosis, salty water flows into the first of two chambers that are separated by a semi-permeable (water-passing) membrane.

The second chamber contains freshwater.

Then a substantial amount of pressure is applied to the chamber with the salt solution in it.

Over time the pressure forces the water molecules through the membrane to the fresh-water side.

Large-scale desalination plants using the new more economical technology have been built in Singapore and Tampa Bay, Florida, USA.

Scientists are now working on reverse osmosis filters composed of carbon nanotubes that offer better separation efficiencies and the potential of lowering desalination costs by an additional 30 percent.

More attempts are needed to research and to get more water for the growing population all over the world.

At the same time everyone on the planet earth is trying to do something to reduce, reuse and recycle the precious water, which is essential for our livelihood.

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What can we do to help solve the current global economic crisis?

This week, while we citizens continue to lose our jobs, our savings, and our patience; the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (aka the G-20) will convene in London to try to figure out some solutions to our global economic crisis.

Since this is truly an international problem, we’re asking this question on all of our international Answers sites, too. The Best Answers will be featured in a coming blog post. So, let’s give our economic leaders something to think about! We look forward to all of your opinions and ideas.

Back to Swadeshi

Up to now the world politicians and the capitalist believed that capitalism would not fail under any circumstances but the current economic crisis world over is a clear reflection of failure of capitalism (America) and its consequent effect all over the world. As the overall impact of the recession around the world is due to the crash of the American Economy, I have occasionally mentioned America in this answer, my due apologies to my American friends if their sentiments are hurt.

Failure of commodity market!

The beginning of 80’s saw a new trend infact a new term initiated by America, OUTSOURCING. Over the last decade America has been gradually making redundant employees, closing industrial units and outsourcing cheaper goods from around the world, specifically China and creating employment elsewhere. America was once proud of its strong consumer base and Capitalism, as the list of outsourced goods grew, local employment opportunities started shrinking and also gradually shrinking was the buying power of average Americans. The same American consumer which was once its strength? Approx two million Americans have lost their jobs just in one calendar year 2008 itself. All the countries that followed suit had the same impact.

Failure of Financial Market!

While financial market did not had much impact due to outsourcing of labor force but the reason for the failure has been same as that mentioned above its reason has been same as above failure of commodity market. While funding of loans has been quite liberal in America, from where an unemployed consumer is suppose to pay for his loans. Economist may say that crash of stock market may be the reason for the loses but it is the other way round the stock market collapsed due to the mounting irrecoverable bad debts of individual institutions.

Surprising!

The same industrial houses who over decades have made thousand’s of billions in profit by shifting manufacturing basis outside America in the name of cost advantages have never passed any of these benefits to the consumer and America has seen higher inflation year to year and never tried to delve into the causes until they were making profit and the treasury was receiving the taxes. Surprisingly, the same corporations are queuing for government aid for their survival.

Every day few billion dollars are added to the original aid and have lost count of overall aid whether it is US $ 2000, US $ 3000, US $ 4000 billion …….. Will this help to revive the economy the American Economy is still not ready even to crawl. Some of the leading American industrial and financial houses, banks, and insurance and pension funds are almost bankrupt and asking for more financial aids from the US Government for its survival.

Who runs the economy?

It is neither the so called great industrial houses or banks or economist or politicians but it is the simple CONSUMER he is the true power that runs any economy. The needs of an average consumer are simple – a steady job to sustain him and in turn he sustains the economy. The repercussions in economies that have outsourced cheaper goods from offshore for more profits at the cost of local industry and JOBS are today evident.

Infact I feel that President Obama should had done the other way round splurged the billions on the American consumer instead of institutions and banks, these would had helped them repay their loans and revived the banks and similarly the money would had help to revive the commodity market and in turn created demand and the ball would had set rolling.

How to revive the economies?

If we have to revive the economy in all fronts entrepreneurial, industrial and financial it is necessary to return back to the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and ‘SWADESHI’. SWADESHI – to manufacture ourselves from our own resources everything and anything that is possible for us. Instead of outsourcing from abroad which only creates employment opportunities elsewhere and helps other economies? Reopening closed units and setting up our own manufacturing facilities that will create more local employment opportunities increase the buying power of the consumer (put the money back into his pocket) who in turn will help to build a strong healthy economy and all of us can thrive and prosper collectively.

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