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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Meagan Mauter: How freshwater supply is becoming more circular
Description: The world’s once linear — take it, treat it, use it, dispose it — model of freshwater usage is changing fast.Despite two-thirds of Earth being covered in water, just 2.5% of it is fit for human consumption. And that share is dwindling by the day, says civil and environmental engineer and expert in water treatment and distribution systems Meagan Mauter. With a rapidly increasing population and climate change disrupting traditional weather and distribution patterns, access to freshwater is headed for, if not already amid, a worldwide crisis.Avoiding calamity will require industrial scale desalination and other techno...