3. liters of water
3.2 billion consumed in 2006
liters of water
6.4 billion used to produce
900,000 tons of plastic
2.5 million tons of CO 2
106 billion MJ of energy
(17 million barrels of oil)
4. 28 billion
bottles of water per year
50 million
barrels of oil per year
World on
the Edge
5. plastic
2,000,000 bottles
every5 minutes in
the US
Chris Jordan, Running the Numbers
34. Increase the price of water.
Adopt water-efficient crops,
irrigation and industry.
Reduce meat consumption
35. Irrigate more efficiently
drip instead of flood irrigation
Boost yields on rain-fed lands
could meet 75% of world food needs
Choose less water-intensive diets
Use trade to make the
smartest use of local water
water-scarce regions can import food
to conserve water for drinking and
other needs
36.
37.
38. hard-path systems
centralized
few sources
water as a commodity
soft-path systems
decentralized
potentially many sources
water as a service
40. Resilience
“The ability of a system to
recover from perturbation; the
ability to restore, repair or
bounce back after a change
due to an outside force.”
41. “Systems that are resilient
have a greater chance of
lasting, evolving and
responding to change.”