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About Water Supply
Secure, plentiful water is often taken for granted by most guests, employees, and managers in food service-which is ironic when you think about what a really scarce resource it’s. In fact, salt drinking water makes up about 97% of all the water on earth. An additional 2 percent is inaccessible, frozen in remote ice caps and glaciers.
A lot more than half of the single percentage that remains worldwide is now diverted for human use, and yet the combination of increased population, industrial technology, and irrigation have pushed individuals to use an incredible 35 times more water than our ancestors did just three centuries ago. In 2003, the United Nations Population Fund estimated that if drinking water consumption rates continue to rise at their existing rates, humans will be utilizing more than 90 % of all obtainable fresh water within 25 years, and 5 billion from the world’s 7.9 billion people will live in areas where safe water is scarce. Read more »
