The never ending population on earth continues to stretch and put even the most basic natural resource, water under greater pressure. As populations continue to boom the availability of clean fresh water not only is decreasing, but the cost of access to it, is increasing. The solution, it is quickly becoming more cost effective to clean existing, polluted water up, vs finding and developing new sources of clean water.

Key Takeaways:

• Contamination as people and agriculture crowd around water sources has hiked the cost of water treatment by 50 percent.
• Nearly 90 percent of the world’s urban water sheds face some level of degradation from agricultural chemicals and increased sediment.
• The world’s urban population is expected to swell by 2.5 billion people by 2050 according to U.N. data.

“Contamination as people and agriculture crowd around water sources has hiked the cost of water treatment by 50 percent in some major cities, a study said on Monday, making it harder to provide safe drinking water for a growing urban population.”

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