The Demand for Water Will Increase Five Times By 2050

The Demand for Water Will Increase Five Times By 2050

By Robert Lenzner | Jul. 23 2011 - 10:14 am |


“As 70% of the globe’s population will live in urban areas by 2050 the demand for water will skyrocket some 5 times according to a must-read 37 page study on water(the new oil) just published by Citigroup. Think about it; water for flushing billions more toilets, watering flower beds everywhere and washing tens of millions new cars must increase the $450 billion global water market. Infrastructure must be built on water utilities, canals delivering the water, on boats shipping it, on rail lines carrying it.

Bankers will be called upon to finance capital investment. Companies in the water business may well profit at a greater rate than GDP. Sound Global in China, an engineering and construction firm; Danaher, Roper Industries, Nalco and Pentair are publicly traded US companies that will benefit.

Another timely investment publication is the monthly letter from Jeremy Grantham’s GMO investment management firm, which deals with the natural resource shortages coming down the pike due to a population increase of another 2 billion people, a developing shortage of fertilizer, and recurrent shortages of some metals. Clearly, agricultural land is in short supply and scientific breakthroughs will be necessary to feed 9 billion people. Grantham predicts we will handle this challenge but fitfully and not without higher costs for food products."

http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlenzn...d-for-water-will-increase-five-times-by-2050/
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As mining and oil companies continue digging and drilling for fossil fuels while destroying our environment, wildlife, contaminating our streams, rivers, and oceans, and when we look at our burgeoning population we realize that our consuming need at this moment in history is looking to our sources of water, the quality of it, plus our future food sources which are being decimated at an unacceptable level.

Our rivers and streams can contain traces of contraceptives,antidepressants,
antibiotics given to livestock, pharmaceuticals, rocket fuel, arsenic, pesticides from farm runoffs are just a few of the traces found in our drinking water. People have had their tap water catch on fire, others have their drinking water bubble like Alka-Seltzer, or contain brown sludge.

It is clear that good clean water is a needed source of health to every American, and should be a right that we automatically can count on, but that is not the case. More leases are given to mining and drilling companies than regulatory controls are made, and this is a severe detriment to our citizens’ health and safety.

Our government must now start a regimen of checking quality of all public water systems, fining those not in compliance with federal regulations. All water supplies in the vicinity of drilling and mining for fossil fuels should be monitored regularly, and restrictions put on companies that contaminate local water supplies. Coal fired and nuclear plants should be checked regularly so that their waste is not entering any water supplies.

 

Not to worry. When we go to "Blue Energy" we will have tons more of water to drink and use in industry.

Producing electricity with hydrogen fuel the result will be tons of pure water to pump into the local water supply.

As hydrogen takes over as the primary vehicle fuel we may have too much water vapor in the air during the summer. We hope that the water vapor will fall as rain.

 

well agent_286

it sounds to me like you found your next investment. You should view this as an opportunity for yourself and to improve your stock in life.

Or, do you just post up articles like this and expect the govt to solve the world's problems?

 

Texas runnin' outta water...

Texas water supply for the future is uncertain
Sunday, November 13, 2011 - Texas has a powerful thirst, one that won't be quenched any time soon given projections that the state's population will double to 46 million over the next half-century.

 

This is why we have to limit population growth and that means chase out the illegals by taking away all their incentives and reduce legal immigration to those skilled in technical fields.

 

So Global Warming and the increased precipitation will end up saving the planet and mankind.......nice.
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This sounds very interesting. I will have to read more about it...Although I am a bit skeptical that it will take over as the primary vehicle fuel anytime soon.

 

This makes absolutely no sense.

 

Well, it's a good thing that 3/4 of the planet's surface is covered with water.

Of course, international bankers like Citigroup that published this study will inevitably desire for it to be used as fodder for helping the public buy into the myth that population will somehow be a problem in the future....and inevitably, to implement Chinese style population controls like forced sterilizations, forced abortions, etc.

Any rational, thinking person realizes that population is not, and never will be, a problem. That's just a way for the elite (especially Citigroup) to get you to take your mind off what the REAL problem is - government and central banking.

 

Perhaps if all liberals neutered themselves that would cut back demand. For the worlds sake.....you should do it.

 

Silly ideological fear mongering.

The planet is covered with water.

Israel is a leading producer and researcher in advanced desalination technology as well as emerging technology out of Canada.

Rivers of fresh water turning deserts into greenbelts............

 

See post 9. How do you propose we "limit" population growth?

 

African babies dying for lack of clean water...

Wateraid in Tanzania: The babies who die for want of clean water
3 Nov 2014 ~ At a clinic in rural Tanzania, we meet mothers who have lost infants to easily preventable illnesses caused by dirty water and lack of access to basic latrines

 

Saudi Arabia just built the biggest desalinization plant in the world which provides about 70% (that figure could be wrong) of their fresh water. We have the technology and the capability to make as much fresh water as we want, it is only a motivational issue. For the cost of the Iraq war we could have met the fresh water needs of the US for the next 100 years.

But it is what it is.

 

2050? Maybe by then there will be enough naive young people that democrats can sucker into voting for them. Perhaps Al Gore has some grandchildren that can run for office as they promise water wealth distribution. LOL!

 

I have a little solar desalinization kit on my boat, I highly recommend everyone look into it if your water bill get's outrageous.

 

I agree with this post.

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End birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants that are crapping our anchor babies at an alarming rate.

 

So............then everyone will just start drinking beer and bathing in vodka.

 

the trick is NOT to let corporations take over the water supplies, let local and state governments do that

 

Freshair wrote: Producing electricity with hydrogen fuel the result will be tons of pure water to pump into the local water supply.

As hydrogen takes over as the primary vehicle fuel we may have too much water vapor in the air during the summer. We hope that the water vapor will fall as rain.

I have a question about that...

... as the earth and it's atmosphere is a closed system...

... then isn't hydrogen a finite resource?

Of course the oceans are a bountiful supply of the raw materials for hydrogen...

... but what is the cost not only of desalination, but also breaking down the components of water...

... to extract the hydrogen?

 

All of this is already happening and has been happening for decades.

The thing you should be demanding is that government pay more attention to infrastructure and less attention to how many illegals they can import before voting day, or how some homosexuals feelings got hurt, or how some feral thug died while attacking a cop.

We could have an endless spring of clean water and in 2050 everybody would die of thirst because the pipes that carry water to and from houses/businesses are decaying and wont last.

You want to do a lot of good for people across the board, get passionate about infrastructure.

 

Water demand to rise 400% by 2050...

Study: Asia at Risk for Serious Water Shortages
March 30, 2016 - The numbers are disturbing and the situation potentially dire.

 

Most of that water is purified and recycled.

 

1) Hydrogen IS NOT AN ENERGY SOURCE. It needs to be generated from water by using other energy sources.

2) Desalination is quite expensive with respect to energy use. Just one of Saudi Arabia's desalination plants, together with pumping salt water in and fresh water to the customer, needs a small nuclear reactor to be powered.

3) The best and cheapest way to ensure water supply in the future is conservation. Unfortunately, that's a word that today's "conservatives" don't like.

4) We WILL run into limits to growth in the future. If it is water supply, energy supply, rare metals or food supply, nobody knows. However, nothing has ever grown forever.

 

Saudi land purchases in California and Arizona fuel debate over water rights.....

Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company will soon be unable to farm alfalfa in its own parched country to feed its 170,000 cows. So it's turning to an unlikely place to grow the water-chugging crop — the drought-stricken American Southwest.

Almarai Co. bought land in January that roughly doubled its holdings in California's Palo Verde Valley, an area that enjoys first dibs on water from the Colorado River. The company also acquired a large tract near Vicksburg, Ariz., becoming a powerful economic force in a region that has fewer well-pumping restrictions than other parts of the state.

The purchases totaling about 14,000 acres enable the Saudis to take advantage of farm-friendly U.S. water laws. The acquisitions have also rekindled debate over whether a patchwork of regulations and court rulings in the West favors farmers too heavily, especially those who grow thirsty, low-profit crops such as alfalfa at a time when cities are urging people to take shorter showers, skip car washes and tear out grass lawns.

In 2014, Almarai paid $47.5 million for more than 9,800 acres in La Paz County, Ariz., a sparsely populated alfalfa-growing region that is exempt from severe restrictions on pumping imposed on Phoenix, Tucson and other large Arizona cities under a 1980 state law designed to protect the state's aquifers.

It later turned to the Palo Verde Valley, where Southern California settlers staked claim to the Colorado River in 1877, beating Los Angeles and San Diego under a Gold Rush-era doctrine called "first in time, first in right" that governs the 1,450-mile waterway. The company paid $31.5 million for 1,790 acres in January after buying about 2,000 acres there last year.

Farmers and water experts have greeted Almarai with both cheers and jeers.....snip~

http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...ia-arizona-fuel-debate-over-water-rights.html


Well whatever takes place.....we do need to make sure we aren't giving up ours.