Fresh water supplies are going to run out, so what can we do to make the taps keep running?

Outlet: The Independent

June 30, 2011

This may seem like a surprising statement, but the world’s supply of fresh water is finite. As global population rises, the demand for food – and the water that produces it – grows inexorably. Globally, farming accounts for 70 per cent of our withdrawals from this fixed “bank account”, this in the face of ever-greater domestic and industrial usage…