Red Three

In the year 2050, it is projected that there will be 9.1 billion human beings on the planet, each requiring 13.2 gallons of water a day to assure survival and meet basic needs: sanitation, bathing, and cooking. Currently, 884 million people, mostly in developing countries, don't have access to safe water. These countries, unfortunately burdened with a significant percentage of the projected population increases, lack the large scale infrastructure necessary to adequately distribute water for basic purposes, let alone deal with issues such as the disposal of wet wastes and simple agriculture, both of which are extremely important needs that must be addressed in some form.

The fact is, large scale infrastructure is expensive. It's very unlikely that developing countries and areas with slum-like conditions will have the resources available to establish the sort of systems we in developed countries been using for years. For this reason, a move to onsite water and wet waste treatment methods will be necessary in terms of sanitation, availability of potable water, and agriculture.

This group blog strives to identify strategies of water conservation and reuse, and the manner by which they mesh and align with more effective and efficient wet waste disposal and agricultural practices: Irrigation methods are evaluated and compared to real world irrigational issues in Jordan; water reuse and wet waste disposal issues are also studied providing methods of effectively treating waste water for reuse agriculturally, with real world applications discussed for Peru; Biogas digesters, an alternative waste treatement method, is investigated, illustrating opportunities to dispose and reuse waste efficiently, with further agricultural applications. Finally, water supply and agricultural issues in Mexico city are evaluated, with possible solutions outlined.