Cleanwaterforum : A forum to discuss how to achieve universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable, clean water.

We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2009/090112.htm

The US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service (ARS) is currently examining the use of remediated water for use in agriculture.   Scientists hope to determine whether reclaimed waste water (sewage and runoff which is treated) would be safe to irrigate crops with.  This is a potential approach to addressing water scarcity - agricultural uses account for more than 70% of water usage.

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