REUSE REVOLUTION
- From: Vol 8, Issue 11 (November 2007)
- Category: Need to know
- Region: Unspecified
- Country: United Arab Emirates and United States
- Related Companies: Besix, Degrémont (Suez), Nakheel and Palm Water
* In his speech at Watec, Frérot came out strongly in favour of reuse as the most appropriate solution to water scarcity, arguing that it is the only resource which is available exactly where additional water supplies are needed most.
He came up with the prediction that worldwide reuse capacity, which is currently around half the amount of desalination capacity, would increase eightfold over the next decade. It is a bold proposition. GWI’s Global Water Market 2008 suggests a fourfold increase over the same period.
* If people take notice of what happened in Prescott Valley in Arizona last month ...
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