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NEWS NOTES ON SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES  Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable  The Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable (SWRR) held a meeting in Washington, DC, on January 22, 2018.  https://acwi.gov/swrr/proceedings/swrr_arlington_va_january_22_2018_proceedings.pdf ; The roundtable mission is to promote sustainability of our nation's water resources through the evaluation of information, development and use of indicators, targeting of research, and the engagement of people and partners to improve the management, conservation, and use of water and related resources.  Its vision is a future in which our nation’s water resources support the integrity of economic, social, and ecological systems and enhance the capacity of these systems to benefit people and nature.  The roundtable’s goals are to:   Provide an ongoing open forum for the exchange of ideas, data, and policy information among all stakeholders on relevant concepts, principles, criteria, indicators, management practices, and research.   Facilitate collaborative, interdisciplinary scientific research on parameters related to the quality and availability of water and related resources, including research to fill gaps in data needed for the use of criteria and indicators, as well as research testing the application of sustainability principles and developing best management practices.   Develop criteria and indicators – based on concepts of sustainability and principles of sustainable resource management – that characterize the quality and availability of water and related resources; promote the widespread use of the criteria and indicators.   Engage in and support outreach to raise awareness of the need for sustainable water resource management and to promote policies and activities, informed by science, that should result in or improve the sustainable management of water resources.   This link will also be posted on the 2018 Reports Page 02 of the Sustainable Water Resources Site at https://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/ ">https://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/ ; Tim SmithSustainable Water Resources CoordinatorGovernment Web Site, https://acwi.gov/Sustainable Water Resources Site, https://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/ ">https://sites.google.com/site/sustainablewaterresources/ ;

1 Comment

  1. French English

    Bonjour Tim

    On été reprises en 2018 des propositions qui datent. Pourquoi n'apporterons nous aucune proposition en continuant à divulguer ce même message.

    Le monde est géré par des vieux, avec des yeux de vieux et une vision d'avenir de vieux. On ne fait que remettre sur le tapis des discussions déjà vues et revues sans y apporter de réelles avancées. Pourquoi?

    Tout simplement parce que c'est trop tard. Des milliards de dollards ont été investis de par le monde dans des infrastructures inopérantes et répliquées sans autres possibilités,  qui ne font que se dégrader et surtout qui puisent sur le capital des ressources en eau.

    Une débauche inéluctable de consommation d'eau qui est perdue quand on la rejette dans l'environnement sans être totalement épurée. Car effectivement le système actuel n'a aucune capacité d'épuration réelle des eaux usées. Il s'agit simplement que d'une gestion des eaux usées afin de les transférer du lieu de leur production jusqu'au lieu de leur dispersion dans l'environnement. Outil inadapté, inefficace, n'arrivant plus à répondre aux flux de la production d'eaux usées en constante augmentation. 

    Par contre des centaines d''oganismes se réunissent tous les jours pour faire l'état d'une situation de catastrophe mais en préconisant des solutions inapplicables. On fait du sur place, on stagne.  

    English

    Hello Tim

    We have taken over in 2018 proposals that date. Why will we not make any proposal by continuing to disclose this same message?

    The world is run by old people, with old eyes and a vision of the old. All that is being done is to put back on the carpet discussions already seen and reviewed without any real progress being made. Why?

    Just because it's too late. Billions of dollars have been invested worldwide in inoperative infrastructure and replicated without other opportunities, which are only deteriorating and especially that draw on the capital of water resources.

    An inescapable debauchery of water consumption that is lost when it is released into the environment without being completely purified. Indeed, the current system has no capacity for the actual purification of wastewater. It is simply a wastewater management to transfer them from the place of their production to the place of their dispersion in the environment. Inadequate tool, inefficient, no longer able to respond to the flow of water production constantly increasing.

    On the other hand hundreds of organizations meet every day to make the state of a disaster situation but by recommending inapplicable solutions. We go on the spot, we stagnate.