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Yes, People Are Now Trading and Investing in Water as a Commodity
- incomingpain 4y agoCalifornia droughts, controversy over Nestle getting water rights all over north america, and there's very little fresh water reserves that are clean to drink to begin with. Definitely smart investment angle.
- armchairhacker 4y agoI read somewhere that the entire human population uses about 0.5% of all water, and water covers around 71% of Earth's surface. And apparently we have developed a lot of cheap and effective water filters [1] [2] [3]. Access to water is a logistics problem, but still, it would be pretty dystopian if reasonable amounts of water aren't cheap. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32973591 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32973591 [2] https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/415837-new-technology-provides-clean-water-in-africa https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/415837-new-technology-pr... [3] https://www.h2o4a.org/life-straws-1 https://www.h2o4a.org/life-straws-1