Water, Water Everywhere and All of it Precious

Eric G. Melin, Executive Vice President and Asia Pacific President, Nalco Company, discusses: - The challenge for Asian businesses of using less water for industrialisation; - The threats to consistent and reliable water supply for the average industrial user: population growth, industrialisation, agriculture and possibly climate change; - Asia's levels of concern in regards to cleaning and recycling water; - What sophisticated techniques are being deployed; - How much capital is deployed to ensure effective water management; - The role of water in energy generation, and specifically in attempting to extract oil and gas shale; - In oil shale extraction, the potential damage to the environment and water contamination; - Potential damage to the environment from fracking; - Whether shale fracking can be done in an environmental and economical way; - What he makes of France's ban on fracking.- The business opportunities for companies like Nalco and competition from heavyweights like GE, Coke and IBM.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.