🛡️ Water Security is a Matter of International Security

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2021-07-25 15:30:06

For decades scientists have spoken about extreme weather events as the result of climate change. Well, “climate change has arrived ,” and water change resulting from a changing climate will come primarily in two forms — drought and flood. Dilapidated water systems only exacerbate the problem.

The Great Salt Lake, the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere, is shrinking rapidly . It could become one of the larger dust emission sources in North America. 

In Tampa, Florida, 600 tons of dead fish washed ashore possibly as a result of the 215 million gallons of leaked polluted wastewater .

Water will be at the center of many of the headlines, from rising sea levels, to desertification, to drought and famine. It could get much worse with an estimated ~1 billion climate refugees this decade.

Water is personal for me. I grew up on a lake where I swam, fished, and played ice hockey. The lake suffered from season ending algal blooms during my childhood and rarely freezes over any more. 9 years ago this fall, Hurricane Sandy hit New York and my experience cleaning up in the aftermath led me to founding MakeSpace. Three years ago I took a pledge to never drink a single use plastic water bottle again after having an epiphany when I couldn’t find a water fountain on Google Maps .

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