blue gold
Earth's liquid treasure
Blue gold is a poetic or promotional term for water, emphasizing its value as a precious and increasingly scarce natural resource.
The phrase draws a parallel to black gold (oil), suggesting water's essential importance to human survival and its potential as a source of conflict or profit: Water is the blue gold of the 21st century.
- commodityFungible traded good
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- lapis lazuliBlue ornamental stone
- water rightsLegal allocation of H2O
- water crisisInsufficient supply emergency
sapphire · water · aquifer · privatization · desalination · cobalt · symbolism · drought · hydrology · pollution control · climate change · water wars · Nestle · bottled water · trade · export · purity · spring
blue goldsewage
Liquid refuse in drains
waste · wastewater · pollution · contaminated water · toxic waste
blue goldblack gold
Slang for petroleum
white gold · green gold · liquid gold · red gold · yellow gold
blue, gold, blues, blued, blueing, bluing, bluish, blueness, bluer