Explore Challenges
- Natural disasters: how can we improve? [25 May 2010]
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy
- Africa in the 21st Century
Thames Barrier, digital divide, Health, deforestation, green economy, Rainforest, Prince Charles, Boris Johnson, 21st Century, ICT, earthquake, drought, Denmark, pollution, retirement age, oceans, finance, palm oil, COP15, geography
Importing goods, exporting drought?
George Alagiah chairs a discussion with Robin Farrington, WWF and Andy Wales, SAB Miller on the scale of global water consumption needed to produce what we use and consume and the dramatic impact it has around the world.
Is it time we start thinking about our virtual water footprint?
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Photography baggeyphotographic.com
Focus
Interview with Professor Tim Lang
We sat down with Professor Tim Lang, Food Policy expert and government advisor to discuss water footprints in the food industry.
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Meet our panel
Read the biographies for the 'Importing goods, exporting drought' event. Including BBC's George Alagiah and WWF's Robin Farrington
- 24th August, 2009
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Read about the environmental impacts of over use of water resources in the Aral Sea
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Read about the hidden cost of what we eat, drink and consume. From coffee to t-shirts, we need far more water to support our lifestyles than most of us imagine.
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