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How to Avoid Running Out of Water

Fresh water issues are getting harder to ignore. In the next five years, half the world’s population will live in a water-stressed area. Drought-stricken cities like San Francisco have started requiring large commercial building to recycle their water. But can technology like blackwater recycling and desalination pull us out of the water crisis?

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