A drought is coming

[nairiporter.livejournal.com]

Yesterday was the World Water Day, an occasion that is meant to raise awareness about the water issues of the world. And it's not like there aren't any. Water consumption has never been as high as it is today, and it is only bound to be increasing more, because of population growth, population mobility, social change and particularly the expansion of the middle class in the emerging economies, water use for producing biofuels, and of course, climate change.

The access to basic water-related services (fresh drinking water, sewerage, and food production) continues to be insufficient in large parts of the developing world. The scenario of doing business-as-usual means approximately 5 billion people (that is 67% of the world's population) are likely going to remain depraved of adequate sewerage, 780 million lacking access to clean water - and that problem is not changing any time soon. Although the current tendencies point to 90% of the global population having some access to fresh water sources, in the meantime progress in the development of sewerage systems remains inadequate for the time being. And that is directly related to mass epidemics.

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