Eric G. Melin, Executive Vice President and Asia Pacific President, Nalco Company, discusses:

- The challenge for Asian businesses of using less water for industrialisation;
- The threats to consistent and reliable water supply for the average industrial user: population growth, industrialisation, agriculture and possibly climate change;
- Asia's levels of concern in regards to cleaning and recycling water;
- What sophisticated techniques are being deployed;
- How much capital is deployed to ensure effective water management;
- The role of water in energy generation, and specifically in attempting to extract oil and gas shale;
- In oil shale extraction, the potential damage to the environment and water contamination;
- Potential damage to the environment from fracking;
- Whether shale fracking can be done in an environmental and economical way;
- What he makes of France's ban on fracking.
- The business opportunities for companies like Nalco and competition from heavyweights like GE, Coke and IBM.

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