INTRODUCTION
Georges Mougin, a renowned engineer and glaciologist had an innovative idea to quench the thirst of billions of people. His brain child, the Ice dream project is a revolutionary project which aims at providing fresh drinking water to the entire world. This report describes today's water crisis problem, possible solutions, challenges, proposals for funding future activities of Ice dream project, discussion of the proposals followed by conclusions and recommendation.
THE PROBLEM
In the 21st century, more than a billion people across the world are still without access to safe drinking water and around 2.5 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation (“Water.org,” 2015). The problem is not only limited to the underdeveloped …show more content…
Lots of research needs to be carried out within different domains like oceanography, satellite mapping, material science, environmental science, towing technology etc. in order to successfully test the proposals. The organization 'Iceberg Transportation International' (ITI) formed by the Saudi prince in 1971 served as the base organization funding its research activities in which Georges Mougin was the technical director (“Ice Dream - Dassault Systèmes,” 2015). It was proposed to be a research organization in the beginning and later a for-profit organization in collaboration with other interested …show more content…
The complexity might be due to weather conditions, water salinity, temperature, current, eddies etc. Several other entities need to participate to make the overall project a success.
Funding: Since this project is more inclined towards public welfare, funding for this activity can be obtained directly from the governmental funds of different nations involved in the project. The information regarding oceanographic and meteorological conditions could be obtained directly from the respective nation’s meteorological institutes. Underdeveloped nations might lack the infrastructure to track these data which might pose a challenge. This can be addressed by other nations coming forward to help those in need.
TOWING THE
Georges Mougin, a renowned engineer and glaciologist had an innovative idea to quench the thirst of billions of people. His brain child, the Ice dream project is a revolutionary project which aims at providing fresh drinking water to the entire world. This report describes today's water crisis problem, possible solutions, challenges, proposals for funding future activities of Ice dream project, discussion of the proposals followed by conclusions and recommendation.
THE PROBLEM
In the 21st century, more than a billion people across the world are still without access to safe drinking water and around 2.5 billion people do not have access to improved sanitation (“Water.org,” 2015). The problem is not only limited to the underdeveloped …show more content…
Lots of research needs to be carried out within different domains like oceanography, satellite mapping, material science, environmental science, towing technology etc. in order to successfully test the proposals. The organization 'Iceberg Transportation International' (ITI) formed by the Saudi prince in 1971 served as the base organization funding its research activities in which Georges Mougin was the technical director (“Ice Dream - Dassault Systèmes,” 2015). It was proposed to be a research organization in the beginning and later a for-profit organization in collaboration with other interested …show more content…
The complexity might be due to weather conditions, water salinity, temperature, current, eddies etc. Several other entities need to participate to make the overall project a success.
Funding: Since this project is more inclined towards public welfare, funding for this activity can be obtained directly from the governmental funds of different nations involved in the project. The information regarding oceanographic and meteorological conditions could be obtained directly from the respective nation’s meteorological institutes. Underdeveloped nations might lack the infrastructure to track these data which might pose a challenge. This can be addressed by other nations coming forward to help those in need.
TOWING THE