Entries from Chemicals & The Economy tagged with 'water treatment'

Middle East risks 'water wars' as river basins dry up

The Euphrates is the longest river in Western Asia at 3000km (1850 miles), and with the river Tigris (1850km) it has been supporting Middle Eastern agriculture for 450k years. But new research from the Water Resources Research academy confirms that...

Water, Food and Ageing top global societal risks

The latest Global Risks report from the World Economic Forum warns that its highlighted "societal risks all have a relatively high likelihood of occurring in the next 10 years". As the chart above shows, the top 3 risks are those...

Opportunities for the New Decade

Over the past century, many parts of the world have seen an extraordinary increase in living standards and life expectancy. As the Financial Times notes, we used to marry at c15 years, become grandparents at c30 and die at c45....