I don't know, but I found a new website called "The Value of Water" where they claim to know. However, you won't find the answer there. They don't really have a number.
The site is pretty interesting. They have lots of cool water facts and stories, including one about water mains in the US. Water mains break all the time, you see the Calgary water crew fixing them all the time. Calgary, has 4,650 km of water mains. That is a lot! Imagine what that number would be for a large America city. No wonder they have 700 water main breaks a day.
There are also some interesting news stories. I don't know where they get their stories from. There are actually not many, and not many good ones. I'm sure there are better places for that for water news.
So what is the purpose of this site. I'm not really sure. Part of it definitely water education, which is good. Pursuing the website's members list and seeing mostly companies that make the money from water issues, I assume part of it is also creating and growing the increasing water industry. Which is also good I guess, considering I am probably part of the water industry. It was just weird to see it that way.
Anyway, considering this has become a brief review of valueofwater.org website... I would say the website is useful as an educational tool for people wanting to know fun facts about water and a good advertisement for the many growing abilities of the water industry. As a legitimate resource, probably not.
What is the value of water.... I don't really know either.... But for what it's worth, from a study funded in 2011 by the Royal Bank they said that, "water is responsible for a contribution (to the Canadian economy) of between $7.8 and $22.9 billion".
No comments:
Post a Comment