As Year 2011 begins – with the best of wishes to you from everyone at the LNA Team – water governance is emerging more than ever as a crucial geostrategic issue. The chemicals industry, which is a source of both major problems and innovative solutions, is expected to a play a predominant part.
> Global consensus on the increasingly-critical situation in China:
- The conclusion regarding the state of hydric resources in China – “the world’s factory and grainstore”, both on quantity and on quality, is one of alarm, in the NGOs, the scientific community, the national authorities and the international community.