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Is There Really A Water Crisis?
Some good points, but really, did anyone actually believe the problem of ‘scarce water’ is anything but mismanagement and poor infrastructure?
There’s a lot more to the solution than placing an educated management in control of the water distribution systems. Water mafia, and yes, they do exist, tend to have strong ties to local politicians. There’s a lot of money involved in the ‘lost water’ so that needs to be addressed as well. Infrastructure to clean water on site is required, but that doesn’t seem to be arriving any time soon for over a third of the world. And yet, there will be people who are too far off the water grid to receive piped water. Perhaps they will have access to Dean Kamen’s water purifier.
Asit Biswas: There is a fallacy the world doesn’t understand. Everyone in the world has access to water. Everyone. If you didn’t, you’d be dead by now. The issue is whether the water is clean, drinkable, and how convenient is it to get that water. So even in the slums of the worst cities people have access, but it’s not clean, they pay through the nose and supply is very erratic. The point I’m trying to make is that everyone has access. The question is can we give them better service, and much lower cost and much higher convenience. My view is that all three are possible.
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In his books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell has dissected many inspirational underdog victories, but his own triumph over the opposite sex could well be the most inspirational of all. Since moving to New York in 1996, he’s cast his net wide and deep to amass a staggering tally of conquests. There’s been the poetess, the psychotherapist, the photographer, the filmmaker, the fact checker, the writer at The New Yorker, the bisexual literary siren….
And these are seriously attractive women, too. The tall blonde he took to Bar Blanc last December was so smoking hot, an eyewitness wrote that Gladwell “made all the guys in the restaurant want to write their own New York Times bestsellers! It was…like the high-school geek landing the prom queen—so wrong, yet so right.”
”This is so well done. It’s a story about Malcolm Gladwell’s prowess with the ladies. When the author calls him up, here’s his response: “This is ridiculous. Why would I want to talk about such a thing?”
The Love Guru - The Daily Beast
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Malcolm Gladwell, lady-magnet
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» Coralie Bickford-Smith, Penguin Press
So I get reading and then try to throw away all my concerns and fears and start getting stuff down on the page, sketching on paper and working things out on the computer.
¶ 2 years ago
