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Bookmark or Share- Water pollution is killing millions of Indians. Here's how technology ...As India grows and urbanizes, its water bodies are getting toxic. It's estimated that around 70% of surface water in India is unfit for consumption. To set up effective interventions to improve water quality, decision-makers need reliable, representative and comprehensive data.
- Water demand is rising fast. Yet few realize how it impacts the climate ...The two impact each other in a feedback loop, with global water-cycle shifts and human water use amplifying the impacts of climate change, causing extreme weather events like drought and flooding, and exacerbating water scarcity. Equally, given how carbon-intensive the water industry is, wasting water is also wasting carbon.
- Semiconductor manufacturing and big tech's water challengeA new chip facility being built by TSMC in Phoenix, Arizona, for instance, says it will reclaim about 65% of the water it uses, reducing its dependence on city water. The region is grappling with population growth and increasing water scarcity due to historic water shortages in the Colorado River, which feeds water supplies.
- Water management is political. A climate scientist explains why | World ...And it's true that we should frame the question of water as a question of access. But it's more than that. It's also a question of exercising sovereignty over the landscape. Achieving water security is much more than having access to water to drink, it's about water that serves the purposes of development and of social cohesion.
- Thought water scarcity was a developing world problem only? Think again ...A report by WaterAid revealed that a standard water bill in developed countries is as little as 0.1% of the income of someone earning the minimum wage, while in a country like Madagascar a person reliant on a tanker truck for their water supply would spend as much as 45% of their daily income on water to get just the recommended daily minimum ...
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