As follow-up to the BALI Conference on climate change, Embassy Nicosia organized a digital video conference on December 20 on water conservation and desalinization. Dr. D. Yogi Goswami of the University of South Florida and Mary Ann Dickinson, Executive Director of the Alliance for Water Efficiency and nine Cypriot experts from the University of Cyprus, the Water Development Department, Water Boards of Larnaca and Lemesos, and the Cyprus Green Party exchanged views on shared problems and solutions and discussed areas of future cooperation. In the U.S. 350 cities have voluntarily implemented Kyoto Protocol measures.
Ms. Dickinson described how Los Angeles gives free ecologically friendly toilets which can save 20% of annual household water consumption since toilets use 40% of water in homes. This reduces the need to build damns and other supply sources and in fact reduces greenhouse emissions in cases where energy is involved in delivering water. Dr. Goswami argued that solar energy was the only long-term solution to desalinization, but that state investments were necessary for eventual large scale projects. Ms. Dickinson described a ladder of options starting from the low hanging fruit of consumer education programs and then moving to efficient water delivery systems, efficient household and business water consumption, and finally to reuse and recycling. States can play a role in legislating environmentally friendly residential systems such as dual plumbing system ,obviating the need to use potable water to flush toilets. Both Goswami and Dickinson promised to send relevant research to the participants.
As follow-up to the BALI Conference on climate change, Embassy Nicosia organized a digital video conference on December 20 on water conservation and desalinization. Dr. D. Yogi Goswami of the University of South Florida and Mary Ann Dickinson, Executive Director of the Alliance for Water Efficiency and nine Cypriot experts from the University of Cyprus, the Water Development Department, Water Boards of Larnaca and Lemesos, and the Cyprus Green Party exchanged views on shared problems and solutions and discussed areas of future cooperation. In the U.S. 350 cities have voluntarily implemented Kyoto Protocol measures. 
other supply sources and in fact reduces greenhouse emissions in cases where energy is involved in delivering water. Dr. Goswami argued that solar energy was the only long-term solution to desalinization, but that state investments were necessary for eventual large scale projects. Ms. Dickinson described a ladder of options starting from the low hanging fruit of consumer education programs and then moving to efficient water delivery systems, efficient household and business water consumption, and finally to reuse and recycling. States can play a role in legislating environmentally friendly residential systems such as dual plumbing system ,obviating the need to use potable water to flush toilets. Both Goswami and Dickinson promised to send relevant research to the participants. 
