Finding The Real Cost Of Water
2 May 2001 - 9:00am
Chronic water shortages may be common in the future. What needs to be done today?
"Scientists from the World Resources Institute and other organizations...[aim to]find ways of calculating the true economic value of water and other resources so this can be factored into social costs at the community, national, and international levels. Doing so, the reasoning goes, should encourage greater water conservation.""
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National Geographic, May 2, 2001
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