Dr. Anthony Turton

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  Dr. Anthony Turton (South Africa)
  
  Dr Turton has a Doctorate in the strategic management of international rivers in Southern Africa from Pretoria University.An active member of Pugwash, a global association concerned with the responsible use of science that was founded on the manifesto by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, Dr. Turton specializes in the analysis of hydro-political issues and political risk assessment at the local, national and international level.
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  Dr. Turton works professionally at the interface between science and policy-making and has a specialist interest in transboundary water issues, both surface and aquifer.He is a Research Associate at the London Water Study Group, based at Kings College.He is a founding member and former President of the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters - a global partnership of universities all specializing in research on transboundary water issues.Dr. Turton is the editor, author and co-author of numerous papers, books and publications.He has participated in international conferences as keynote speaker and various study/working groups on strategic water resource management.A major thrust of his current work is about understanding mine closure as a sub-national transboundary issue in an economy that been historically mining-based.This deals with integrating policy between different government departments, often with different mandates and strategic visions, but all linked in some way via water as either a resource or as an effluent stream.

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  This is according to Dr Anthony Turton, a senior water researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), who maintains that up to 50 percent of municipalities "do not even have one qualified engineer" on their staff.
  
  Turton cites scientific research to counter the toxic cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, which is found in most of SA's river and reservoir systems, according to a recent CSIR study, and can cause diarrhoea and vomiting - and even liver damage over time.
  
  "The original work for that was done in the 1980s in massive programmes based at the CSIR," says Turton. "Those programmes generated many PhD graduates, but also did the primary science on which future management will be based.
  
  "Those programmes are no longer in existence and this is a national crisis of note. We need to recover the bits and pieces we can and then develop new national capacity," says Turton.
  
  He says cyanobacteria produce microcystin, a group of toxins with different chemical properties and medical manifestations.
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  Turton says climate change is already having an impact.

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  "The truth of the matter is that as a nation we don't know how to deal with this problem because it has never happened to us before," said Dr Anthony Turton, a leading water researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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  According to Turton, "This is the source of major concern in the short term, but there are other future worries as mines close down and decant starts to move across to the East Rand."
  
  He fears that the country's energy crisis will exacerbate the problem by forcing smaller mines that cannot absorb the financial losses caused by power outages to close. "If they close prematurely, this process will simply be accelerated like a domino effect and hit us before we have the necessary science in place to inform the policy-making process," he said.
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  "This is a national strategic issue," said Turton.

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  Dr Anthony Turton, a water-resource expert at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), says the way we treat our water resources needs to be a central part of a big vision for the country, which is just not there at the moment.

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  Dr. Anthony Turton Natural Resource and Environment Unit Fellow
  
  aturton@csir.co.za
  
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  Craig Schultz, Director of Arcus Gibb, with Dr Tony Turton (CSIR), member of the SERA Water task team and the Gibb-SERA Chair in Integrated Water Resource.

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  Civil society groups and NGOs have launched a petition calling for the immediate reversal of the internationally-acclaimed water researcher Anthony Turton's suspension from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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  Turton was suspended on Friday for talking to the media after the CSIR withdrew his keynote presentation, Science real and relevant, from its conference in Pretoria a week ago.
  
  The CSIR says it took this step because "certain statements … could not be sufficiently substantiated".
  
  It has come under fire from the Freedom of Expression Institute, Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa, Democratic Alliance and SA National Editors' Forum.
  
  Turton is a participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
  
  A fellow Pugwash member, Hans G,nter Brauch, chair of Peace Research and European Security Studies, said he hoped scientific freedom and the freedom of speech prevailed and the suspension was reversed.
  
  He said he was speaking in his personal capacity.

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  Dr. Anthony Turton Natural Resource and Environment Unit Fellow
  
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  This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pm and is filed under Typical SBG stupidity.

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  Dr. Anthony Turton Natural Resource and Environment Unit Fellow
  
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  Civil society groups and NGOs have launched a petition calling for the immediate reversal of the internationally-acclaimed water researcher Anthony Turton's suspension from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
  
  Click here to sign the online petition
  
  Please sign the online petition against the suspension of leading and highly respected water researcher, Dr Anthony Turton by the CSIR. Your support will be added to a letter which will be sent to CSIR spearheaded by a group of environmental NGO's, Academics, Water Researchers, Activists and Organisations. This attempted silencing of the truth about South Africa's water crisis is a major attack on the constitutional right to Freedom of Expression and a major blow to democracy. It is nothing more than a huge cover up for failing and incapable government ministries who are supposed to be dealing with this very real water crisis yet continually assure the public that nothing is wrong. Nobody can allow this type of repugnant action to go unchallenged, so we call on you to please show your support and sign the online petition. Some background information sourced from various articles follows. You can also follow the links below which point to the keynote address that Dr Turton was prevented from delivering. Additionally please forward this link to your colleagues, friends and family as water issues affect each and every one of us.
  
  The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has suspended a leading and highly respected water researcher, Dr Anthony Turton over a presentation he was to deliver about South Africa's water crisis at a high level conference last week. The council executive of the CSIR on Friday suspended Dr Anthony Turton, an acclaimed political scientist, with immediate effect, charging him with insubordination and bringing the CSIR into disrepute. His keynote address, A Clean South Africa, was to be presented at the CSIR's "Science Real and Relevant" conference in Pretoria this week, but he was forbidden from delivering it because it contained "unsubstantiated" facts, according to the executive, as well as photographs of this year's xenophobic attacks, which, the executive added, "may disturb people" however Dr Turton's report had already undergone a peer review process and was extensively circulated before the conference. Dr Turton has been prevented from even entering the CSIR campus grounds since Friday.
  
  In his presentation, Turton was to have said that South Africa had run out of surplus water, with 98 percent of it already allocated.
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  Turton indicated that, if nothing was done, "then we can say, with a reasonable degree of certainty, that social instability will grow and South Africa will slowly slide into anarchy and chaos". He even went so far as to draw comparisons with the recent xenophobic violence.
  
  Last Updated on Friday, 28 November 2008 04:57

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