About ETI Groundwater exploration and development. Unless current trends are reversed, we will have a worsening water crisis around the planet. Water Crisis Looms, World Bank Says Only thirty percent of the world's population today has a clean, dependable supply of water.
Water shortages threaten health, econmonic growth and, potentially, national security.
An educated population insists upon higher quality living standards. Countries that were once enemies are searching together for ways to address water issues. Production from desalination processes is expensive and raises environmental concerns. Treatment of water taken from polluted surface streams is not politically feasible. Both of these costly alternatives are being implemented for lack of other options.