Watermaster Newsletter 2018

Water is vital; no living thing can survive without it. Yet only a small fraction, about 0,014%, of all water on earth is easily accessible freshwater that people, animals and plants mainly rely on. The majority of all water is salty seawater and the majority of freshwater is locked in icecaps and glaciers. You might think that something as rare and important as freshwater would have always been treated with great respect. Surprisingly this is not true. Many of the world’s rivers, lakes and other sources of freshwater are heavily polluted. Clean water is now a luxury that only some can enjoy. This should not be the case. We need to take better care of this precious resource.