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Podcast: Future Cities · Sustainability, Energy, Innovation, Climate Change, Transport, Housing, Work, Circular Economy, Education & Environmental Solutions
Episode: Seth M. Siegel · Entrepreneur, Public Speaker & NYTimes Bestselling Author of Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World, Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink, & Other People’s Words (Highlights)
Description: “On average in advanced societies, about 70% of freshwater that’s consumed is consumed by agriculture. In less developed countries, sometimes as high as 95% of the freshwater goes to agriculture, which means that you’re depleting the amount of water available for the environment. You’re depleting amount of groundwater to preserve for the future, especially in dry times, and it creates a stress for the future…What are you going to do when you have hundreds of millions of water refugees coming from places where there used to be enough water where there’s now just not enough water? What is the...