By better understanding the challenges and opportunities for water management, together with power dynamics, my hope is that the water supply crisis can be mitigated.
A crisis that can be mitigated, but not avoided altogether.
When the German economy turned south after the 2008 financial crisis, the pain was mitigated by a program known as "Kurzarbeit".
Robert Litan, a Brookings Institution economist who advised the Clinton administration on financial industry deregulation, said that if anything, the crisis might have been mitigated if Gramm had gotten more of his way when he opposed the Community Reinvestment Act in the 1990s.
And while the crisis could have been mitigated to some extent by more empathetically managing the immediate aftermath, the truth is that this incident was decades in the making.
Falcon was the chief regulator attempting to bring order to the houses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the first four years of this decade, and had he been listened to, a significant part of the housing crisis could have been mitigated.
Had seemingly easy postponement options not been available, the subsequent crisis might well have been mitigated, if not contained.A different view is provided by Ravi Jagannathan, Mudit Kapoor, and Ernst Schaumburg Globalization has brought a sharp increase in the developed world's labor supply.
A water crisis in Umm Qasr has been mitigated by opening a water pipeline from Kuwait, though distribution remains chaotic.
The humanitarian crises being suffered by so many may be mitigated to some extent through the imposition of (temporary) human rights obligations on NSAGs.
These and others could've been mitigated before they became full-blown crises if only more people paid attention.
Health risks might be mitigated to some degree through real-time health data surveillance, which would enable officials to detect crises early and warn the public accordingly.
