Study focusing on four different case studies in France, the United States, China and India, added that in most countries, electricity is the biggest source of water consumption.
If we continue doing what we are doing today to meet our energy demands, there will not be enough water in the world to quench the thirst of the world population by 2040, says a study.
The study, focusing on four different case studies in France, the United States, China and India, added that in most countries, electricity is the biggest source of water consumption because the power plants need cooling cycles in order to function.
“If we keep doing business as usual, we are facing an insurmountable water shortage — even if water was free, because it is not a matter of the price,” said professor Benjamin Sovacool from Aarhus University in Denmark. “There will no water by 2040 if we keep doing what we are doing today. There is no time to waste. We need to act now,” Sovacool added.
The study that combined two new research results with projections about water shortage and the world population, showed that many areas of the world will no longer have access to clean drinking water even by 2020.
By 2020, about 30-40 per cent of the world will have water scarcity, and according to the researchers, and climate change can make this even worse.
If we continue doing what we are doing today to meet our energy demands, there will not be enough water in the world to quench the thirst of the world population by 2040, says a study.
If we continue doing what we are doing today to meet our energy demands, there will not be enough water in the world to quench the thirst of the world population by 2040.
There currently isn't enough water to quench the thirst on this site alone.
The richest countries won't notice. It will be the poor countries that will suffer the most. And if we push for solar energy this won't be an issue by then. I really don't see this happening but you never know.
Maybe I'm missing something?
