Interview: Towards a culture of water

Abstract

In this interview made to Dr. Arrojo, he speaks to us about the “Global Water Crisis”. A crisis that, although it is usually presented as a problem of “scarcity”, tends to be more a crisis of the quality of water which is accessible to the poorest. Nobody dies of thirst itself, but from diseases caused by the water that people drink. In this context, to consider water as a mere commodity, makes citizens become in simple clients, increasing the vulnerability of the weakest. The Author suggests the need to build a New Water Culture, based on savings and efficiency, as well as the preservation of ecosystems (rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers). A New Water Culture that facilitates the inescapable transition from the old Renaissance paradigm of “domination of nature” to the new emerging paradigm of “sustainability”.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/cultura.v20i62.1462

Cultura de Paz Vol.20 No.62 2014; 5-15