World Water Week: Lyla Mehta

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Some key general features and dimensions of the STEPS Centre’s work that shape our overall ‘take’ on the questions being explored by this panel

This picture represents the amount of freshwater available for human consumption - look at it and think we are running out of water.. climate change, ‘water wars’, famine and oil threats still appear as news stories. Resource scarcity is still linked with population growth, growing environmental conflicts and science and technology or innovation are usually evoked as the appropriate ‘solutions.’ Scarcity remains an all-pervasive fact of our lives . But what is scarcity? Why has blame been attributed to it for many of humankind’s woes, for centuries? Why is it so all-pervasive and does its all pervasive character help or hinder us in governing the allocation and distribution of crucial resources such as water, oil, food and so on? Are there alternative viewings of ‘scarcity’ and better ways to talk about finite resources?