{"id":6662,"date":"2015-09-01T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2022-09-05T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T09:26:48","slug":"blue-planet-tourism-time-for-some-fresh-water-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/09\/blue-planet-tourism-time-for-some-fresh-water-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Planet Tourism \u2013 time for some fresh (sustainable) water thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6663\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hotel-water-use.png\" alt=\"hotel water use\" width=\"614\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hotel-water-use.png 412w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hotel-water-use-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hotel-water-use-103x67.png 103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/>That tourism uses a lot of water is hardly news, writes our editor Jeremy Smith in his blog for WTM London Daily fresh towels. Infinity swimming pools. Golf courses surrounded by desert. The endless irrigation of hotel grounds to keep them looking pristine. The list goes on, and that\u2019s without including the embodied or virtual water that it takes to produce most of the products we consume, and generally consume more voraciously on holiday. There\u2019s no better time to ask to what lengths the tourism industry can go to make a more positive contribution to the sustainable use of water. After all, there\u2019s only so far that fitting low flow shower heads and encouraging people to use their towels for longer can take us.<\/p>\n<h6>In Brief<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Starwood says that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uEa01_ZyC4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than half of Starwood\u2019s current and future properties are in areas facing critical water issues<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A 2012 report on global water security from the United States Director of National Intelligence stated that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairobserver.com\/region\/middle_east_north_africa\/water-scarcity-risks-being-a-source-of-conflict-28740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demand for water would lead to an increased risk of conflict in the future<\/a>. What if half the hotels in the world are soon to be in places at risk of conflict over access to water?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>In Depth<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.wtmlondon.com\/blog\/responsible-tourism\/blue-planet-tourism-time-for-some-fresh-what-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the whole article on the WTM London blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jmcsmith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow Jeremy Smith on Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Access Green Hotelier&#8217;s Know How guide to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenhotelier.org\/know-how-guides\/water-management-and-responsibility-in-hotels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hotel Water Management<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if half the hotels in the world are soon to be in places at risk of conflict over access to 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