{"id":30803,"date":"2024-06-28T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionbankinter.org\/noticias\/combating-water-scarcity-through-innovation\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:38:37","slug":"combating-water-scarcity-through-innovation","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionbankinter.org\/en\/news\/combating-water-scarcity-through-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Combating water scarcity through innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Water is one of the scarcest essential resources. As stated in the <\/a>Innoverse News, more than half of the world’s population will suffer from severe water scarcity by 2050<\/strong>. How can innovation help protect water scarcity? How to take care of this precious resource and not waste it? <\/p>\n\n

Regeneration, reuse, desalination, three water treatment technologies<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n

Water regeneration<\/strong>. Reclaimed water is purified wastewater that receives additional treatment. Its objective is not to make it drinkable but to make it drinkable<\/em> (as <\/a>defined by the Catalan Water Agency<\/a>) Ideal for industrial, municipal, agricultural, and environmental environments, risk or aquifer recharge (discussed later). <\/p>\n\n

Water reuse<\/strong>. Reusing both reclaimed and non-reclaimed water is a basic part of the decalogue of good water use. For example, they are recently being approved <\/a>municipal ordinances<\/a> that force new buildings to reuse shower water to refill the toilet cistern. Something that will also save families and the city council some money. <\/p>\n\n

Water desalination<\/strong>. It is a supplement to be used as little as possible, which filters seawater but in return increases its salinity with the <\/a>brine discharge<\/a> and consumes significant amounts of energy. It is very interesting in times of drought in which the channels do not give enough volume. <\/a>One out of every ten litres of drinking water<\/a> in Spain comes from a desalination plant. <\/p>\n\n

Every drop of water counts: recharge aquifers and wetlands, with stone age technology?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n

The best drop of water is the one that is not contaminated, the one that does not need to be used, or the one that falls within the ‘circular economy’ and can be used over and over and over again. To revert the state of groundwater from a state of overexploitation to a state where it can be recharged naturally. <\/p>\n\n

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And there are several ways to approach the challenge: <\/p>\n\n