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This is the second feature of an "Artist
on Ibiza" and this week José P Ribas has written an exclusive
on a favourite son and painter of Ibiza, Kennedy.
I went along one day last week with José
to the home-cum-studio of this eccentric character and took
a couple of pictures of Kennedy.
All
Pictures © Gary Hardy (November 2001)
Details: If you should require any further
information about Kennedy or on the purchasing of his work
then please don't hesitate to contact this office at your
own convenience.
"Water"
Kirk W Huffman, our "An
Anthropological View" columnist, has asked me to included
a newspaper article that appeared in the Daily Telegraph this
week on Thursday 8th November, with reference to his six separate
weekly series (from Weekly Edition 025 to 030) on Aïgu
y Agua and Water.
World to run out of water in 50
years
By Charles Clover, Environment
Editor
(Filed: 08/11/2001)
THE world will begin to run out of fresh
water by 2050 because of the expected population growth to
9.3 billion, the UN Population Fund said yesterday.
All of the projected growth, from the present
population of 6.1 billion, will be in developing countries
already straining to feed and provide basic services to their
people. Populations of the 49 least developed countries will
triple in size, from 668 million to 1.86 billion.
Water supplies are already stretched in
the poorest countries and water use has grown six-fold in
70 years. Worldwide, some 54 per cent of the annual available
fresh water is being used, two-thirds for agriculture.
By 2025, it could be 70 per cent because
of population growth. If consumption everywhere reached the
level of developed countries, it would be 90 per cent. The
fund's report, State of the World's Population 2001, said
the Earth's resources were being used at a greater intensity
than at any time in history. Since 1960, world population
had doubled.
Last year 508 million people lived in 31
water-stressed countries but, by 2025, three billion will
be in 48 such countries. By 2050, 4.2 billion will be in countries
unable to meet the UN daily requirement of 50 litres of water
a person for drinking, washing and cooking.
Gary Hardy
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