From Blue Community Ambassador Gemma Gasseau:
Happening this Thursday! Join us to discuss the relation between capitalism and the global water crisis 🌊.
Date & Time: Oct 30, 2025 06:00 PM in
Description: Filippo Menga, Thirst: the global quest to solve the water crisis
Speaker: Filippo Menga is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Bergamo in Italy.
Discussants: Gemma Gasseau is Research Fellow at Scuola Normale Superiore (Firenze, Italy). Alexander Dunlap is Research Fellow at Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston Universit.
Abstract: Two billion people worldwide are without access to safe water. But solutions are hard to come by when causes are not clearly defined. In a whirlwind tour of global water insecurity, one of the world’s leading experts on water politics chronicles the massive impact of climate change; the insatiable water demands of industry and agriculture; and the widespread lack of state investment in infrastructure. Filippo Menga focuses in particular on the high priests of global developmentalism – celebrities, CEOs, and sustainability directors – who have emerged as some of the loudest voices about water issues while offering few tangible solutions. Thirst shows that if humanity is to escape the deadlock that bedevils access to clean water, it has to reconsider both its faith in the market and its relationship with nature.
