Karl Marx, the revolution in Egypt and the World Water Crisis

Keynote speaker at the South African Water and Energy Forum was Professor Jonathan Allan from the UK. Professor Allen is the Stockholm Water Prize Laureate and teaches at the King's College in London as well as the School of Oriental and African Studies. He had pioneered the development of concepts in the understanding of water issues and how they are linked to agriculture, climate change, economics and politics.

South Africa exports water in significant volume because of the agricultural production as well as industrial manufacturing involving steel and other raw materials.

The conference asserted that "Peak Water" was nearly reached in South Africa, making the crisis become a serious problem as unlike in the case of oil, water as a resource can not be substituted.

Because of "Peak Water" that had been reached in Egypt last year, the revolution ignited there in the past weeks, many analysts said in the debates of the forum and warned that because of ever more burdens to access potable water a food crisis may follow leading to political upheaval like it has been seen in Egypt.

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