The World Resources Institute has just released a report that 17 countries around the world are under extreme risk of running out of water, and though Virginia has been considered a water-rich state, it is beginning to face some of the same pressures. Charles Fishburne reports.
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Charles Fishburne: That is especially true in Tidewater.
Greg Garman: Trying to pull more waters out of coastal rivers.
Fishburne: VCU’s Rice Rivers Center’s Director Greg Garman.
Garman: Trying to pull more ground water out of coastal aquifers, and most of these resources are already stretched.
Fishburne: He says it is mostly rising populations, climate change and rising sea levels.
Garman: And so we are working real hard with engineers, with policy makers.
Fishburne: Garman says the Rice Center is about taking good science and applying it to good policy.
Garman: Not only create awareness of the problem but then provide the science that will be necessary to tackle these problems in the most effective way possible.
Charles Fishburne VPM News.