During the go-go years of the housing boom, in the early part of this century, the world economy was thriving, demand was indeed soaring, and many analysts were predicting an imminent "peak" in world production followed by significant scarcities.
The significant and growing scarcity of feasible reservoir sites and groundwater substitutes has led to greater interest in projects that would complement reservoirs and, at the margin, provide a substitute for increased reservoir capacity.
Acute water scarcity, a significant loss of biodiversity and more urban pollution seem inevitable.
For companies, the impact is already significant, with droughts, water scarcity, pollution and other water risks costing businesses $14bn£11bnbn) this year, up from $2.6bn in 2015.
Pastoralist communities dependent on the natural resource base already face water scarcity and significant livestock disease losses (Coppolillo et al. 2009; Mwakalila 2011).
The growth has been particularly strong in the past 10 15 years due to the drivers of tighter regulations, water scarcity, and significant advances in membrane process performance.
For the late Quaternary, this results from the lack of significant stratigraphic markers, the scarcity of radiocarbon ages and the difficulty in constraining reservoir ages.
A significant cause of water scarcity is agriculture since crop production requires up to 70 times more water than is used in drinking and other domestic purposes.
Among the predictions are more famine and drought, expanding epidemics, more natural disasters, more resource scarcity and significant human displacement.
A final observation was the scarcity of significant correlations between patients' frequency ratings of undesirable treatment experiences and clinicians' ratings of problems with side effects of medication use.
