Water Issues

GLOBAL WATER SCARCITY

Many people are living with less water than they need, whether in the

world’s most prosperous cities or in its bountiful agricultural heartlands.

• Fourteen of the world’s 20 megacities are now experiencing water scarcity or drought conditions. As many as four billion people already live in regions that experience severe water stress for at least one month of the year, according to a 2016 study in the journal Science Advances. Nearly half of those people live in India and China. With populations rising, these stresses will only mount.
• Humanity is facing a growing challenge of too much water in some places and not enough water in others. This is being driven not just by climate change, but by population and economic growth and poor water management, experts warn.
• Water desalination is part of the solution, especially in densely populated coastal areas.
• Agriculture accounts for 80-90 of global water consumption, industry and energy production 10-15% and households less than 5%
• The average US citizen uses 300-375 liters per day for household.
• The largest countries in the EU typically consume 120- 150 liters per day, Italy close to 250

0.007 % of the planet’s water is available for human consumption.

The level of freshwater available from the planet has remained constant over time—continually recycled through the atmosphere and back into human usage.

How do we scale for the continuous growth in population and urbanization?

Water stress is a risk often overlooked by investors. We explain its causes, why the problem is likely to intensify in the decades ahead – and sketch out financial implications.

https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/insights/blackrock-investment-institute/troubled-waters

Report available on request

The Role of Desalination

in Increasingly

Water Scarce World

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31416

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/our-insights/water-a-human-and-business-priority

Too much rain will fill up any existing dams quickly, forcing managements to “open the flood gates” which can cause wide spread flooding and despair. However, if a desalination option would have been available then a larger buffer capacity of the dams could have been kept available in case of flooding to minimize the risk of the need to “open the flood gates”.

If flooding is causing dam waters to get contaminated or in situations of too little rain, it will be an immediate option to start up any desalination production if such plants are already available due to previous investments.

The supply of fresh water is going to be a very big problem for many years to come, which also makes it necessary for many industries to ensure their future supplies: mining, farming, hydrogen etc.

The new industry is green Hydrogen, and a lot of countries want to be massive producers:

USA, KSA, Egypt, India, China, Australia etc.

An issue that seems to be overlooked is that this Industry needs a lot of fresh water, and these countries already have water scarcity and lack behind on plans to install capacity.

Gov. to Gov. agreements are made for technology transfer, but you hardly find any solution to the water demand.

Floating Offshore Desalination (FOD) is the solution that is quick, cheap and flexible.

Plans for massive investment in desalination plants for hydrogen (inqld.com.au)