Water Looms as "The Next Oil" -- Water &Wastewater News
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From the Page: "For a variety of reasons, national and international attention is increasing on the vulnerability of water systems and the subsequent impacts on public health and welfare, business, and commerce. Both locally in metro Atlanta and northern Georgia and in more and more regions across the globe, drought conditions have been exacerbated if not created by increased population density and land development, which, in turn, may have been made even worse by global warming, resulting in record-setting droughts. One recent report on the human impact on oceans found that we are now using much more water than can be replenished. We also are dumping chemicals, compounds, and other waste into the system faster than the system can clean it out again. On parts of the U.S. West Coast, water has been so heavily contaminated with pharmaceuticals that people have been told not to drink it even though it has gone through treatment processes."
