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Photo Essay: The 2008 World Expo
by Justine Bayod Espoz
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Global Warming, extreme droughts, desertification and pollution are just a few of the contributing factors to an ever-increasing scarcity of fresh water on our planet that by 2025 could leave billions of people without access to sufficient water.
Although many forward-thinking people, such as those in the Ripple Effect partnership, have begun putting their heads together to create solutions for managing water scarcity, we still have a long way to go to create global awareness and therefore global action.
The 2008 World Expo helped to address this issue of water and sustainable development in visual, creative and attention drawing ways. I attended the even, which took place Saragossa, Spain from June 14 through September 14.
During the 93 days, the Expo pavilions explored timely and increasingly important topics, including:
Water, A Unique Resource - an exploration of how water shortages and privatization of water supplies lead to extreme poverty, increased immigration and civil and political conflict.
Extreme Water – a study of flash flooding, tsunamis and other water related natural disasters, as well as the link between global warming and the increase in sea level and devastating hurricanes.
Shared Water – an exhibition that explains how uncontrolled development can lead to increased flooding, water pollution, unsustainable accumulations of waste, decreases in biodiversity and much more.
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