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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Global Water Shortages

For those interested in my previous post about this year's TED talks on water, this Economist article is great reading: http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13447271&subjectID=348924&fsrc=nwl
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Lib is a professional corporate director after a career as an executive in technology, media and communications, where she ran Canada's largest Internet media company. Lib sits on the boards of Payments Canada and Cogeco Communications and has been a director of ING Direct Bank, Computershare Trust and West Park Healthcare Centre. She has been a consultant on innovation and taught about innovation in both the Rotman and the Queen's full time MBA programs. She has been a regular attendee at TED and was curator of a TEDx conference and is also a devotee of the Hot Docs film festival, reading, cryptic crosswords, skiing, cottaging, and, most of all, her 4 children and 5 grandchildren.
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