World's Water

Planet Earth is made up of only 25% land and 75% water. Oceans account for 97.5% of this water, only 2.5% is fresh water; 1.7 % in the form of glaciers in the north and south poles; a mere 0.8% is water that can be used to support the lives of the more than six billion people living on Earth.

Population growth leads to an increase in the total number and variety of human resource needs. This rapidly pushes industrial development, closely followed by the development of waste problems. Most of these problems are based in an imbalance between production processes technology and environmental management technology, as well as between company targets and responsibility in managing environmentally harmful waste.

Fresh water is a very limited resource, especially as water pollution has made access to clean water increasingly difficult. The difficulties to access clean water have pushed many countries, especially developed countries, to strive to increase their reserves of clean water. These efforts include programs which follow the concepts of reduce, reuse, recycle, a series of easy steps that can be adopted to decrease daily and industrial water consumption. Other efforts include the processing of domestic and industrial wastewater.

Clean water is very important as water is a vital natural resource for humans and other living creatures. We all, without exception, cannot avoid our responsibility to take care of our natural resources, particularly water.