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The Trouble with Water
Only 3 per cent of the world’s water is fresh water, and two-thirds of that is (for now) locked in frozen glaciers or otherwise unavailable for our use. We need it, we waste it, we spoil it and we fight over it. Christoph Sagel and Matylda Krzykowski’s photoessay reflects a whole sea of troubles but also a few precious drops in the ocean aimed at making things right.
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Total Meltdown
We have got to the point of not “if” but “when”. Two independent studies, both published in May 2014, reported the unstoppable collapse of a massive ice sheet in the Antarctic prompting conservative predictions of a rise in global sea levels by up to ten feet in the coming 200 years – enough to more than wet the feet of New York, Mumbai and London, not to mention the Maldives, Bangladesh, Venice…
»Today we present observational evidence that a large sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet has gone into irreversible retreat. It has passed the point of no return.«
Dr. Eric Rignot, Professor of Earth System Science, NASA press conference, 12th May 2014 -
Breaking the Waves
Sometimes the forces of nature can be so great that all you can do is run. Recent tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia revealed the devastation that water can cause. While Japan had some of the most sophisticated seismic detection technology known to man, what they lacked was an organised plan of evacuation. In West Sumatra, tsunami evacuation raised earth parks have since been proposed by Geohazards International and others along with clearly marked escape routes from beaches, as a low-cost, locally sourced solution to providing safe areas of elevation for evacuation.
Video: GeoHazards International.
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