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So, what are the solutions experimented to answer water stress? Water market is the answer of most liberal nations, and to that end, Australia is an interesting case study. Although its water stress is considered low (3.14%), a vast part of aquifers in Australia are slightly saline water, thus unusable for most human activities. The South of the country, were climate is the driest, experiences regular droughts despite the presence of the Murray-Darling Basin. That is why Australia opened the way to localised water markets since 1983, when South Australia introduced a permanent water trading scheme.<ref>source: Wikipedia pages: | So, what are the solutions experimented to answer water stress? Water market is the answer of most liberal nations, and to that end, Australia is an interesting case study. Although its water stress is considered low (3.14%), a vast part of aquifers in Australia are slightly saline water, thus unusable for most human activities. The South of the country, were climate is the driest, experiences regular droughts despite the presence of the Murray-Darling Basin. That is why Australia opened the way to localised water markets since 1983, when South Australia introduced a permanent water trading scheme.<ref name=wikisource>source: Wikipedia pages: | ||
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Explained in “What are the concrete effects of carbon pricing on climate?”. | Explained in “What are the concrete effects of carbon pricing on climate?”. | ||
source: http://www.thesoftprotestdigest.org/index.php?title=%F0%9F%9B%A2%F0%9F%92%B8_The_real_deal_about_Carbon_Pricing</ref> What must be done is to stop extracting fossil fuels to make plastic bottles, which carbon will add to the natural cycle. Even when it pretends to be recycled, plastic is, in fact, “de-cycled” because this fossil material can’t be fully recycled: its quality diminish with time and new plastic must always be added to the cycle, unlike glass or steel.<ref | source: http://www.thesoftprotestdigest.org/index.php?title=%F0%9F%9B%A2%F0%9F%92%B8_The_real_deal_about_Carbon_Pricing</ref> What must be done is to stop extracting fossil fuels to make plastic bottles, which carbon will add to the natural cycle. Even when it pretends to be recycled, plastic is, in fact, “de-cycled” because this fossil material can’t be fully recycled: its quality diminish with time and new plastic must always be added to the cycle, unlike glass or steel.<ref name=wikisource /> | ||