Countries Treat Water As Limited Resource

摘要

Extremes are increasingly defining different types of water work underway around the world. For example, London is looking to protect its city and the Thames estuary from tidal flooding; Qatar is building the world's largest reservoirs to provide more water to the desert nation; and Singapore and Scotland are building massive tunnels to hold sewerage and stormwater, partly to prevent flooding. "More frequent and more intense events continue to shape the overall water market," says Peter Nicol, global market director for water for CH2M, which is working on the projects in London, Singapore and Scotland. Countries are realizing they can't eliminate the impact of extreme events, so they are looking to mitigate them, Nicol adds.