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.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Peak Water: Aquifiers and Rivers Running Dry. How Three Regions are Coping


An in-depth article from Wired Magazine about how three regions of the world struggling with disappearing water are coping with the future.   

Profiled:  the Intel company's water-intensive chip-manufacturing process at its Chandler Arizona plant - which utilizes 2 million gallons of super-filtered water per day.  1.5 million gallons are pumped through a desalination plant which is relcaimed as drinking water.  

Chandler is banking water - pumping it (including Intel's contributions) back into underground aquafiers - storing it for hard times when it's anticipated that the Colorado River will not be able to provide. 

London is also profiled - 8 million thirsty mouths are the main users of water rather than industry or agriculture.   Smart metering technology is being deployed along with proposing a half-billion dollar desalination plantto drought-proof the city. 
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