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Summary of a World without Water
A brief summary of this article as below:
- The River Nar is suffering water scarcity because outdated licensing rules have allowed it to become overused and fertilizer run-off from farms, where Coca-Cola would want to have anything to do with it.
- The main reasons of the warning of a looming water crisis around the world are: 1. a surging population; 2. a growing global middle class and 3. a changing climate.
- Water investment is essential to companies because, nowadays, water issue can damage their brand, their credibility, their credit rating, their insurance costs and more financial expenditure. e.g. Google use diverted sewer water to cool the plant, instead of drinking water.
- Desalination is required in most aspects of mining industry, which is most visible water cost business sector. e.g. GHP Billiton Rio Tinto claims its desalination scheme which will reduce the use of fragile local water supplies.
- Peter barbecue, chairman of Nestle states that our wrong water-management decisions cause current water crisis. One reason is water receives less attention than other issues, like global warming; another reason is that water is so undervalued that it is typically used inefficiently.
- Farmers are the world’s biggest water users who are followed by a very distant second user - factories.
- Extraction: A big issue is a huge volume of water is lost during the process. Because more is pumped out than can be replenished quickly when it rains due to unregulated and poorly monitored use. For example, Middle East lost an amount almost equal to the Dead Sea between 2003 and 2010 already.
This will eventually cause the increase in sea levels as the extracted water makes its way to the oceans.
- More energy is required as the increasing number of global population and global middle class because energy production needs a lots of water. Meanwhile, desalination is another way that water scarcity is inadvertently leading to greater
A brief summary of this article as below:
- The River Nar is suffering water scarcity because outdated licensing rules have allowed it to become overused and fertilizer run-off from farms, where Coca-Cola would want to have anything to do with it.
- The main reasons of the warning of a looming water crisis around the world are: 1. a surging population; 2. a growing global middle class and 3. a changing climate.
- Water investment is essential to companies because, nowadays, water issue can damage their brand, their credibility, their credit rating, their insurance costs and more financial expenditure. e.g. Google use diverted sewer water to cool the plant, instead of drinking water.
- Desalination is required in most aspects of mining industry, which is most visible water cost business sector. e.g. GHP Billiton Rio Tinto claims its desalination scheme which will reduce the use of fragile local water supplies.
- Peter barbecue, chairman of Nestle states that our wrong water-management decisions cause current water crisis. One reason is water receives less attention than other issues, like global warming; another reason is that water is so undervalued that it is typically used inefficiently.
- Farmers are the world’s biggest water users who are followed by a very distant second user - factories.
- Extraction: A big issue is a huge volume of water is lost during the process. Because more is pumped out than can be replenished quickly when it rains due to unregulated and poorly monitored use. For example, Middle East lost an amount almost equal to the Dead Sea between 2003 and 2010 already.
This will eventually cause the increase in sea levels as the extracted water makes its way to the oceans.
- More energy is required as the increasing number of global population and global middle class because energy production needs a lots of water. Meanwhile, desalination is another way that water scarcity is inadvertently leading to greater