Solve for X: Rob McGinnis on global water scarcity

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Global water scarcity presents a grave challenge to continued human development and sustainability. The answer, however, is to use more water, not less. In order to do this, a dramatic technological breakthrough in desalination is necessary. This presentation describes the beginning of that effort.

Rob McGinnis is Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Oasys where he's developing forward osmosis desalination technology.

Learn more about Rob's tech in the following article: http://goo.gl/FVB2F

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[Dan Ramos]

The topic and the explanation is incredible and profound! But! I really... REALLY wish the video production team continued to show the illustrations/animations while he's pointing things out (either spending more time on the illustrations or maybe going split-screen). They only QUICKLY showed them and then went back to him waving his hands around or referring to the graph. I kept having to jump back repeatedly to follow along. Otherwise excellent video!

[Uros Djurdjevic]

If everybody would think like this, the world wouldn't be 100 times better, it would be more like 100^1000 times better ! peace

[KE01983]

imagine if this stem was installed in office buildings..... outfit all the computers with some form of centralized water cooling and u could turn offices into desalination plants :D

[SolomonGrumpy]

I noticed that too.

[deeroks1]

u need to start a kickstarter account to crowdfund this. definetely.

[Alex Escalante]

With technologies like these, the only problems we might face as humanity are political. Let us think about it.

[allthenamesrassigned]

woho he speaks so fast Oo hard to folllow :/

[JimmysCrackhorn]

To go from 7 to 9 billion souls, and from emerging/3rd world to 2nd and 1st means more water use, not less. Yes, water is cheap and easy in America, but this too shall pass...price goes up and consumption goes down, except in Las Vegas.

[AriGoldsteinWork]

Actually I think the entire concept to think about future ideas is a cool presentation on to itself. I believe you can go directly to his website (Rob's) and gather more data, or use Google Scholar for things like:

Beyond legacy water osmosis

Desalinization 2010 2011 2012

Modern Desalinization 2011

[maxxlopez]

i need subs in spanish