ABSTRACT
Water is fundamental to life and is overall the largest component of resources that have to be actively sought. Air we need continuously but, for the time being at least, is available at all locations. Water supply and management mean different things to different communities, clients, industries and suppliers. For the purposes of this analysis, water supply will be taken as the supply of water for consumption delivered through a system. In treatment involves 1 2 3 forming this definition, we have excluded waters abstracted from rivers and groundwater without treatment for use by people and industry.
