There is a global water crisis in the making. By 2025, the UN expects all regions except the Amazone, Siberia and Scandinavia to have severe difficulties in securing sufficient fresh water supply. Almost 3 billion people worldwide will not have enough access to water. The World Bank has pin-pointed this issue as one of the most urgent to address and has so far granted loans of USD 450 billion for water infrastructure investments around the world. The water industry is believed to grow by 10-12 % annually until 2025.

Causes

A cause for this crisis is that there are not many fresh water sources left to exploit further. Natural sources like ground water, rivers and lakes have in virtually all regions reached their exploiting-limits. In many areas they are over-exploited. In Beijing, the ground water is presently at an alarming level of 200 meters below the ground, compared to historically normal 15 meters, and sinking fast. Once one of the world's largest fresh water lakes, the Aral sea of Central Asia is almost wiped out. In Australia, some years the Murray-Darling river is completely dried-up when it reaches the ocean. And so on.

A common denominator for these local water crises is an ever-increasing usage of fresh water. A large part of this increase comes from heavily increased irrigation, but also from growing populations and change in lifestyles. The UN expects disputes of water rights to be the main reason for international conflict by 2025.

Solutions

This oncoming water crisis can only be met by a combination of smarter usage of water and better recycling, but also of an increased water base. The latter is where Airwatergreen will contribute.