Simon Cook on the Basin Focal Research Project
Channel: Michael Victor
Date: 17/09/2011

Dr. Simon Cook, Leader of the Basin Focal Research Project from 2007-2010 discussed some of the key findings from the research project which focused on understanding the linkages between water, food, and development in 10 river basins.

The analysis -- which involved five years of research by scientists in 30 countries around the world -- is the most comprehensive effort to date to assess how, over vast regions, human societies are coping with the growing need for water to nurture crops and pastures, generate electricity, quench the thirst of rapidly growing urban centers, and sustain our environment.