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Will the next World War be over water?

China, Environment
By John Richardson on 16-Nov-2007

Please read this – http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28water.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

Don’t worry, just keep concentrating on the short term – after all, all you have to do is keep your boss happy and make it through to retirement with loads of money in the bank.

Or let’s assume you are worried. What can the chemicals industry do to address this crisis other than promoting PE100 pipes to move ever-tighter water resources around?

Do we have a responsibility to inhibit rather than push the growth of chemicals and how on earth would this ever fit in with any corporate strategy or individual career objective?

And from a purely selfish dollars and cents objective, as the groundswell of public opinion goes could you face more incidents like this? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyLHwz52wsk

What kind of world is my 10-month-old son going to inherit?