Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Fahad Al-Attiya

Qatar Food Security Expert, Security Chairman at Qatar National Food Security Programme

"Imagine a country with abundant power -- oil and gas, sunshine, wind (and money) -- but missing one key essential for life: water."

"This is the situation in Qatar: … We only have two days of water reserve, we import 90 percent of our food, and we only cultivate less than one percent of our land."