Post from Yahoo message board:Ref: TMENTEC is so fortunate to own 2 world changing technologies that address the most critical problems of this era.
Energy is getting all the attention right now
but it is water that the foundation of this company..
Come for the power stay for the water!
Some would consider water the new oil. Even though 70% of Earth is covered with water, only 3% is fit for human consumption, of which two-thirds is frozen and largely uninhabited ice caps and glaciers, leaving 1% available for consumption. The remaining 97% is salt water, which cannot be used for drinking or agriculture. If all the earth's water fit in a gallon jug, available fresh water would equal just over a tablespoon.
There is no more fresh water on Earth today than there was a million years ago. Yet today, 6 billion people share it. Since 1950, the world population has doubled, but water use has tripled. As I write this story, I googled the word "Water Shortage" and lo and behold, a story from Arab News popped up reporting on the current water shortage in Jedda. Considering it is the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan, this shortage in the Middle East could not come at a worse time.
According to the UN, 50% of all hospital beds worldwide are occupied by patients who are ill from contaminated water. In the developing world, water related diseases account for 80% of all sickness and claim around 5 million lives each year. In such areas, 60%-70% of the rural population neither has access to safe usable water, nor any satisfactory means of waste disposal. Presently, over 1.1 billion people lack access to improved water supply and this number is set to climb to 2.3 billion by 2025.
Air pollution, oil spills, waste and fertilizers have exaggerated the health impact caused by the lack of clean drinking water. Just last week, a chemical leakage in eastern China distrupted drinking water supply to over 4000 residents, but not before some people had already drank the contaminated water. The spread of global industrialization has been the root cause of shortages in densely populated countries like China, India, Africa, Mexico, Pakistan, Egypt and Israel. Did you know that a single gallon of gasoline can contaminate 750,000 gallons of water?