报告题目：The Global Water,Food and Poverty Paradox: Pumping Too Much and Pumping Too Little

报告人：Dr. John A. Cherry （加拿大皇家科学院院士，美国工程院外籍院士；场地地下水研究联盟主任、G360地下水研究所首席研究员、滑铁卢大学名誉教授）

时    间：2025年02月20日上午9:30-10:30

地    点：地理资源所A0901会议室

报告人简介：John A. Cherry,PhD,P.Eng.,FRSC, holds geological engineering degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and the university of California,Berkeley and a PhD in geology from the University of Illinois. He currently is a Leader of the Groundwater Project,an Adjunct Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada, where he is Director, University Consortium for Field Focused Groundwater Research and Associate Director, G360 Institute for Groundwater Research, the largest university-based groundwater research institute in Canada. He holds the title of Distinguished Emeritus Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada, where he was based, 1971-2006, and is an Honorary Professor, University of Hong Kong. He has received many awards and honors from scientific and professional organizations in Canada, USA and UK,including the 2016 Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize,and the 2020 Stockholm Water Prize.

 报告摘要：Climate,wars,pandemics,and recessions threaten our society's future,but the most immediate threat is disappearing fresh water. According to the World Bank (2015),“Water is reaching a tipping point.” The US National Intelligence Council’s Strategic Futures Group,March (2021) wrote “Water insecurity is threatening global economic growth,political stability.” According to the World Economic Forum (2021),“Water insecurity risks triggering a global food crisis.” What goes unacknowledged by these and other global policy bureaucracies is that the global water crisis has groundwater problems at its heart. Unless this becomes clearly recognized soon and corrective measures taken,a breakdown of the globalized food economy and subsequent societal collapse will become likely. Groundwater is at the heart of the crisis because groundwater makes up 99 % of all liquid freshwater;when drought comes,groundwater is the only freshwater in most regions. Understanding groundwater entails understanding the paradox,which is too much pumping in some areas and too little in others.  In many parts of the world too much groundwater is extracted unsustainably (groundwater mining) for irrigation. However,in rural areas globally,a total of 3 billion people live in water poverty and need more groundwater development for health,hygiene,and family subsistence agriculture.

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