In approximately 25 years, fresh water may be hard to come by. Two new reports based on three years of research show that the entire world's population may go thirsty by 2040.
Remarkably,
by 2020, between 30 and 40 percent of the world's population could be
affected by water shortages. Much of the water shortage hinges on the
way energy is produced today at coal-and natural-gas-fired power plants.
Researchers
from Aarhus University in Denmark, Vermont Law School and the CNA
Corporation got together to study today's energy production methods and
how they compete with clean water sustainability. They were stunned by
what they found and raised alarm. If humans continue on the same path of
energy production that we are on today, wasting billions of gallons of
water to cool coal-fired power plants, then in 25 years, all clean water
sources could be tapped dry.
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