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“The so called global water crisis is really a crisis of water management and water finance,” says this week’s guest, renowned international environmental expert, Albert F. (Al) Appleton. Having worked on water resource management and sustainable development on 6 continents, Al knows how groundwater is mismanaged worldwide. Water is underpriced in all uses—and therefore it’s often wasted. The tradeoffs of water use in agriculture and energy production (as in shale gas fracking) have not been subjected to rigorous cost benefit analyses. Water infrastructure is underfinanced, water management
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