India is set on diversifying supply away from the Middle East.
More production will help keep prices moderate and diversify supply.
"The approach is now to diversify supply, rather than relying on surface water," said Andrew Speers, industry programs manager of the Australian Water Association, the industry's main representative body.
Israel's new domestic discoveries do not, as yet, offer an immediate solution as electricity prices reach record levels, heightening the imperative to diversify supply.
Shaw Lupton, CoStar's senior real estate economist, said companies were trying to mitigate that risk by diversifying supply chains into multiple distribution centers.
"We are on the brink of a blackout," said the economy minister, Lubomir Jahnatek.When the gas returns, the debate will turn to plans to diversify supply.
In the medium to long term, Brown believes that high oil prices mean Britain has to look at energy efficiency and diversifying supply.
In Europe, where Russia has used supply cut-offs to put pressure on neighbouring Ukraine, discoveries of shale gas in eastern Europe could diversify supply in a useful way.
It relies on friends like Germany to block efforts to liberalise European markets and diversify supply.Russia is also pushing ahead with South Stream, a $15 billion pipeline to bring gas across the Black Sea to central Europe via the Balkans.
The two manufacturers that dominate Tasmanian opium extract production have begun twin battles to diversify supply sources and alter the plant's genome to produce a stronger, more productive crop.
"Diversifying supply is important for any country, and the industry is looking at other things besides the Middle East," said Clarence P. Cazalot Jr., chief executive of the Marathon Oil Corporation, a Houston-based energy company pursuing projects in the Middle East, West Africa and most recently Russia.
