Fuelling new millennium civilization: Oil or water?

• Main Author: Orr, David W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Institute of Planners 2000
• Subjects: Water; Petroleum; Natural resources; Orr Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10613/6291; https://doi.org/10.25316/IR-1209

The theme of the 2000 CIP conference will be "Water: the oil of the twenty-first century." As the organizers point out, "Oil, with its many facets of supply and demand, has driven the industrialized world of the twentieth century; water promises to be as critical a commodity in the tw...