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December 20, 2007
BYU Professor Speaks of Our Water Resources
Brigham Young University biology professor Mark Belk, speaking last evening at the monthly Utah Valley Sierra Forum meeting, associated with the Sierra Club, said that the world has only a small amount of usable water and that Utahns must be careful with the little allotment they have.
"Water is a very, very important issue here in Utah, the West and around the world," he said.
Belk explained that 95 percent of the earth's water is unusable saline, not potable. "We get the impression that there's lots of water around, and there is," he said. "But not for us."
As important as energy conservation is in politics today, Belk said fresh water will be an even bigger issue in the next 20 years. There are ways to use non-fossil fuels, he said, but fresh water is vital. "Water either takes energy to convert it from saline to fresh or you have to use what you have," he said, as reported by the Daily Herald.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at December 20, 2007 02:50 PM
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