Article: Decentralized water treatment – the solution for universal safe drinking water?
Climate change and the increasing global population are challenging the world’s efforts to ensure that every person has access to safely managed drinking water by 2030. As a result, it is necessary to find technical solutions that reduce the operational costs of water distribution and make networks more flexible, resilient, and future proof. As it turns out, the answer might lie in moving away from traditional centralized infrastructure.The United Nations define the access to safe water as “the most basic human need for health and well-being”. Meanwhile, demand for water is rising rapidly