WATER MANAGEMENT

It said that water would be the cause of wars in the coming years.
While many people operate on the assumption that water will always be available at affordable rates, and in abundant supplies, the grim truth is that we will likely be hit by a water crisis in the near future. In a book by Charles Fishman ‘The Big Thirst’ tells the story of the small town of Orme, Tennessee, which literally ran out of water in the summer of 2007, prompting the mayor to limit town residents’ water use to a mere three hours of water service per day for months. And every few days, Orem’s fire truck was driven down the road to Bridgeport, Alabama, to fill up its 1,5000-gallon tank, replenishing the town water supply.
Barcelona, Spain, experienced a similar crisis in the spring of 2008, & in 2010, a drought in southwest China left 1 million people without water for themselves or for their 8 million head of livestock. And even today, despite the fact that India experienced a mind-boggling rate of modernization, not one of its major cities provides 24-hours-a-day water, most providing just one or two hours of water a day to tens of million of residents.
Nearly every sector of the economy relies upon the availability of water & shortages could be economically devastating. Power plants, for example, use 201 billion gallons of water daily to generate electricity-that’s more than any other industry, & by most accounts, those numbers are unsustainable.