Cleaning up industry's water worries | Feature
By Angeli Mehta2021-05-04T08:58:00+01:00 With clean water supplies increasingly scarce, Angeli Mehta looks at what industry is doing to reduce its demands Fresh water is in parlous state. Droughts in South Africa and in Europe in 2018 were a wake-up call to industry. In Cape Town, the city came close to ‘day zero’ with the prospect of taps running dry. ‘We knew it was going to happen, but the fact that it came very quickly and dramatically was unexpected,’ says Kevin Winter, at the Future Water Institute at the University of Cape Town. ‘It caused the public to talk about water like ...
Source: chemistryworld.com