Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "The uncomfortable truth about water scarcity | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer" video.
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I have been waiting for this vocast, Ian, I am hoping that you and your esteemed guest, Gilbert HOungbo, will read my comment and give it some thought. I would like to say to UN-Water's Gilbert Houngbo how I believe we can win the water scarcity problem about to explode across the world and have everyone on every continent getting clean, clear fresh water 24/7. I am an inventor and an artist and this how I believe we can solve this seemingly intractable problem. Rome had aqueducts, we must copy their idea but put water pipes and pumping facilities under our roads and railways and this way, when there is a downpour where a huge amount of water inundates a large urban area----like in Syndey a year or so ago----where literally cubic meters of water fell in hours on a city that was only able to save 8% of the rain water. 8% is pitiful and the rest had to be flushed out to sea. Australia is a perfect example of a country with drought hanging over everybody's head a large part of the time. I am not an engineer, but I can imagine the cost and logistics and all that goes with re-purposing our roads and railways, but gentlemen, we have got to start somewhere. Rain doesn't just fall anymore; it comes down in torrents and all of that water could be absorbed into underground piping facilities that would then pump that water to the regions in dire need. What the UN could do is make a pilot project, say, in the middle east where war could break out any day for getting fresh water supplies to one country or another. To recap: underground aqueducts to transfer fresh water and one other positive element is that it would not blight the country side with unsightly miles and miles of pipes visible to the naked eye.
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