Introductory Remarks Drinking Water Quality and Sustainability

摘要: Drinking water has received considerable attention recently. However, the marked difference between escalating demand and shrinking supplies illustrates that our progress towards sustainable management of this vital resource been less than adequate. Over past few decades, global drinking consumption outpaced population growth (Fig. 1), while misuse mismanagement have resulted in a rapid widespread decline source-water quality supply. Nevertheless, growing movement among governments, scientists, private public sectors to evaluate current practices, adopt more stringent control, develop integrated proactive is encouraging. Canada key player balance supply consumption. This country faces many same concerns as rest world. ~9% total available freshwater