Global population, economic development and a growing appetite for meat, dairy and fish protein have raised human water demand sixfold in 50 years.
Whether BRT stimulates land development depends on institutional factors such as developer appetite, market conditions, land availability, and land regulations.
"Locals are seeing a growing appetite for supporting businesses that lead to other forms or positive development," adds Malhas.
"There is still a growing appetite for good investments," said Hubert Danso, the founder and vice chairman of Africa Investor, an international trade and development firm in Johannesburg.
Like all insects they don't truly hibernate, but enter a state of diapause, which slows down their development and appetite, until temperatures rise and they become active again.
A revitalised economy is reinforcing the development industry's appetite to build new homes.
Not Russia, an increasingly depopulated expanse run by Gazprom.gov; not an incoherent Islam embroiled in internal wars; and not India, lagging decades behind China in both development and strategic appetite.
Parag Khanna wrote in 2008 that he believes that India is not, nor will it become a superpower for the foreseeable future, lagging decades behind China in both development and strategic appetite.
Preservationists worry about the steady appetite for development in magnetic Manhattan neighborhoods, which the East Village has certainly become.
