A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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In his column, AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr refers to the doomsayer Reverend Thomas Malthus who predicted that civilization was destined to exist at the fringes of starvation and penury. Hoffbuhr makes a corollary to the value of water, stating that if water is not valued, it will be wasted as it is in the United States where water is the least expensive in the world, and yet has the highest per‐capita use. Hoffbuhr argues that to prove the doomsayer Malthus wrong, water resources will have to be managed more efficiently to convey the sense of how truly valuable a resource water is for human existence on this planet.
In his column, AWWA Executive Director Jack Hoffbuhr refers to the doomsayer Reverend Thomas Malthus who predicted that civilization was destined to exist at the fringes of starvation and penury. Hoffbuhr makes a corollary to the value of water, stating that if water is not valued, it will be wasted as it is in the United States where water is the least expensive in the world, and yet has the highest per‐capita use. Hoffbuhr argues that to prove the doomsayer Malthus wrong, water resources will have to be managed more efficiently to convey the sense of how truly valuable a resource water is for human existence on this planet.
Was Malthus Right?
Hoffbuhr, Jack W. (author)
2003-08-01
1 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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