British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" came to mind as experts in Sweden discussed shortages and how less than 1percentt of the Earth's water was fresh and available for human consumption.
According to 4BC talkshow host Ben Davis, who discussed the shortage on his show yesterday afternoon, the general consensus amid tradies is that young people aren't prepared to get their hands dirty.
On 21 March 1944 the British Chiefs of Staff discussed the shortage of intelligence but were told by Reginald Victor Jones, one of the "Crossbow Committee" members, that little information was leaking out because the workforce was predominantly German.
For example, early documents discussed the shortage of key public health personnel, in particular, the need for Medical Officers of Health and those health professionals with expertise in infectious diseases [ 23, 27, 41].
He discussed supply shortages and possible budget problems, which were aggravated by the lack of contact between city education administrators.
Not long after the strike against Bin Laden, an editorial in The New York Times discussed a shortages of judges, a result of political squabbling over appointments and said, "The bureaucratic logjam for veterans pursuing benefit claims has gotten so huge that judges — in Dickensian fashion — are having to work nights and weekends as they decide more than 600 cases each annually".
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and the National Petroleum Council are convening a top-level meeting later this month to discuss the shortage and propose solutions.
Council representatives in Bristol have met schools minister Nick Gibb to discuss the shortage of primary school places in the city.
(Reuters) Steve Solomon and Jenny Price discuss the shortage (LA Times) Tribes in Kenya Wage Water War (In These Times) Downstream: Water Access and Sanitation News (Pulitzer Center) Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization (book by Steven Solomon).
While the bookish president rarely ventures among ordinary people, Mr. Leon wandered down the streets here, shaking hands with astonished citizens, visiting local clinics and discussing the shortages of medicines and supplies.
