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Access- Availability & Challenges
Humanity demands a need for freshwater for agricultural, industrial, and commercial processes like the production of beer, food, and refined oil. With a rising demand, the quality and supply of water diminishes drastically on top of an increasing waste and scarcity. To address this challenge, we need to increase the supply of freshwater, mitigate its demand, and enable reuse and recycling.

Physical water scarcity
Earth’s most dominant feature at first glance is the ocean, taking up approximately 70% of the planet’s surface, connected to major lakes, watersheds, and waterways; whether it’s through a channel or through the water cycle. Explained by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), who notes, “..scarcity of fresh water resources and the need for additional water supplies is already critical in many arid regions of the world and will be increasingly important in the future. Many arid areas simply do not have fresh water resources in the form of surface water such as rivers and lakes. They may have only limited underground water resources, some that are becoming more brackish as extraction of water from the aquifers continues.” The scarcity of freshwater resource has been a growing issue for centuries and less than 2.6% of the water on Earth is freshwater, and of it, about 0.014% is available to humans as groundwater mitigates due to constant groundwater tapping and the rest sit in untouched ice caps and glaciers.

Water Quality
Developing countries usually do not have the sufficient resources to access freshwater for some regions. Numerous organizations and programs reach out to many of these communities and help provide access to freshwater through reasonable water treatment methods, many of which are based on communal issues concerning human health, the environment, diseases, finances, and other challenges.

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 * Noting the issue of access to water
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Improving water resources
Water treatment is vital for improving drinking-water quality. Current technology enables us to solve this with a variety of solutions to increase the supply; we can convert non-freshwater to freshwater by treating water pollution. Much of water’s physical pollution includes organisms, metals, acids, sediment, chemicals, waste, and nutrients. Water can be treated and purified into freshwater with limited or no constituents through certain processes.

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 * Lack of brief explanation of water treatment processes.
 * Other notable processes
 * Results; outcomes
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