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-- a note from _kt75 The fo u rth issue of the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - Q0 4 /2012 will be released soon . This last issue of the Notes is edited as special issue and concentrat es exclu sively on hydro power as an alternative energy source. It highlights recent political deve lopments , technica l and s cientifi c trends.  In addition more i nformation about the recently started _sust invent project (visit: http://kt75-mirror.blogspot.ch/p/kt75-interactive.html ) is provided. Previous releases of the Notes are available from: http://swm-group.blogspot.ch/p/kt75-mirror-downloads.html

-- a note from kt75 The third issue of the Quarterly Notes on Sustainable Water Management - Q03/2012 is currently under preparation. Previous releases of the Notes are available from: http://swm-group.blogspot.ch/p/kt75-mirror-downloads.html kt75 home:  http://kt-75.blogspot.ch/

-- an SWM THiNKTANK article edited: 2012-05-25 (ws), Sustainability and 'growth' (as observed and interpreted today) is a contradiction. The first term has (under today's conditions) nothing to do with the latter and vice versa. Why is this the case? First of all 'growth' (up to now and prevailing) refers to a purely quantitative growth. For example, the GDP [ 1 ], mobility growth [ 2 ], car market growth [ 3 ]-[ 6 ], profit growth [ 7 ], unemployment growth [ 8 ]. A return to growth (away from the current 'anemic growth' [ 9a ]-[ 9c ]) is reported [e.g. 9 ] which, however, may have disadvantageous consequences, i.e. another growth in CO2-emissions despite a decrease [ 10 ]. The list could easily be expanded.  The overall impression from the above brief list however is, that the society is inescapable doomed to grow, in particular (and actually exclusively) in quantitative/physical terms/dimensions. Cancer, perhaps a rather drastic nevertheless certainly t...