The non-potable reuse of wastewater is not a new idea, especially where water is a historically stressed resource.
Growing populations, increase in food demand, society's expectations for out of season products and the dependency of the food system on fossil fuels stress resources due to the requirements for national production and from importation of products from remote origins.
"This evidence also strongly implies that expected future drying will further stress resource availability and the lives of people in this region," Kelley said.
To conclude this section, it is important to stress resource dependency, i.e., both civil servants and politicians are dependent on each other, and the different actor groups have different strategies for mobilizing resources.
Authorities acknowledge that the breakneck pace has stressed natural resources throughout the region.
This will place additional pressure on our already stressed water resources, at a time when we also need to allocate more water to satisfy global energy demand – which is expected to rise 60% over the coming 30 years – and to generate electricity for the 1.3 billion people currently without it," said the report.
Over mid-latitudes, and the dry tropics - where water supplies are already stressed - resources are likely to become even scarcer.
Those masses, typically hungry and unemployed, have stressed the resources of host nations trying to contain the blowback of their neighboring country's crisis.
More important, though, behavioural economics provides a different way of thinking about some of the problems of poverty.Traditional development programmes stress resources and markets.
In over-building the global economy in the context of a stressed natural resource environment, these princes of plunder bring the world nearer to global conflict.
But it is also attractive for business, as rising and fluctuating commodity prices combined with environmental stresses on resources starts to affect decision making and bottom line projections.
