The long dry: Why the world's water supply is shrinking. A global study has found a paradox: our water supplies are shrinking at the same time as climate change is generating more intense rain. And the culprit is the drying of soils, say researchers, pointing to a world where drought-like conditions will become the new normal, especially in regions that are already dry. Source 9i.
There are portable units that come in the size of a briefcase that can pull up water from the ocean or a river and clean it from all impurities. This needs to be made available to the public at affordable prices.
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