Drinking water: Toilet to tap -- get used to it!
by Joseph Romm
26 Mar 2009
http://gristmill.grist.org/print/2009/3/26/13338/6707?show_comments=no
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/3/26/13338/6707?source=daily
In the future, your drinking water is going to be recycled from your toilet -- believe it.
As the population grows and global warming drives desertification and the loss of the inland glaciers (see here), fresh water will become increasingly in short supply. As the AFP reported recently:
Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark UN report ...
The global population is growing by 80 million people a year, 90 per cent of it in poorer countries. Demand for water is growing by 64 billion cubic metres per year, roughly equivalent to Egypt's annual water demand today.
Read the full article: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/3/26/13338/6707?source=daily
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