As the world's population grows the availability of clean drinking water is diminishing. Sadly a good portion of the clean drinking water found around the world has been polluted and whether you believe humans are the cause of global warming or not, glaciers and snow caps are reducing at an alarming rate.
So what do the homo sapiens do? All over the world countries have been devising different systems to deal with this existing and future shortage of water. There are quite a few options available and it really depends on where the country/city is located in determining exactly what system is best.
The options include but are not limited to: desalination - reverse osmosis, reclaimed water systems and water transfer projects.
First let's start with a transfer project and the biggest one in the world right now is happening in Northern China. Basically they are shifting the direction of one of the largest rivers in the world. This system will divert water to the areas in China that require it. This project is so big that it is expected to be completed in 2050. The system is incredibly simple and yet like many simple designs the end goal is reached with much complexity. The basic premise is to shift fresh water that is currently being dumped into the Ocean and diverting it to the cities that require it. As you can imagine moving massive amounts of water takes time which is why the project is expected to take so long.
Orange County California has one of the world's largest water reclaiming facilities, it doesn't sound very nice but this system works by taking sewage and converting back into clean and safe drinking water. While the system was nearly 500 million dollars Orange County is one of the few areas in California that has a plan for the future, there are real concerns about how the rest of the state will receive water in the future as supplies are running out!
Desalination was first used on early sailing ships, sailors would boil sea water in order to have clean drinking water. Now boiling water to feed a large city would use massive amounts of energy, if you combine this old technology with reverse osmosis you all but eliminate the boiling requirements and in the end convert sea water into clean and safe drinking water. The largest project of this kind is found in Israel, most of the country receives it's drinking water from the sea. This process is also being used in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, these two countries as most are aware are very energy rich and because of this their systems do boil the water rather than using reverse osmosis.
While there are systems that will help us in the future, clean drinking water that is made by mother nature will always taste better. The faster we stop polluting our existing fresh water drinking sources is always going to be the best solution!
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This article was written by Shawn Wilson, a member of the customer support team at Datepad, where internet dating is always free. Datepad has a massive directory of informative dating articles along with a great list of dating site reviews on their dating blog.
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