Is there a “Water Crisis?” – Improving Water Quality through Water Filtration
According to the “International Bottled Water Association”, in 2011, total U.S. bottled water consumption increased to 9.1 billion gallons, up from 8.75 billion gallons in 2010. While all other major beverage categories such as carbonated soft drinks, milk, and fruit beverages continue to suffer declines in consumption, bottled water rates head in the opposite direction. Per-capita consumption is up 3.2 percent in 2011, with every person in America now drinking an average of 29.2 gallons of bottled water last year. http://www.bottledwater.org
“There is a water crisis today. But the crisis is not about having too little water to satisfy our needs. It is a crisis of managing water so badly that billions of people – and the environment – suffer badly.” World Water Vision Report
As the per capita use increases due to changes in lifestyle and as population increases as well, the proportion of water for human use is increasing. This means that the water to produce food for human consumption, industrial processes and all the other uses is becoming scarce.
Improving drinking water supply
According to www.worldwatercouncil.org/ — Water should be recognized as a great priority. One of the main objectives of the World Water Council is to increase awareness of the water issue. Decision-makers at all levels must be implicated. One of the Millenium Development Goals is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation. To that aim, several measures should be taken:
- guarantee the right to water;
- decentralise the responsibility for water;
- develop know-how at the local level;
- increase and improve financing;
- evaluate and monitor water resources.
Improving water quality almost always involves some sort of filtration process. Filtration barriers remove larger particles from water, including those formed by coagulation. This section is about the filtration process which can be used to improve the quality of rural water.
The Water Store is a family and locally owned business serving the NH and MA states. We were founded in 1988 designing, installing and servicing water filtration systems.