Barcelona currently has severe water restrictions. Catalonia is suffering from an unprecedented drought and water resources have fallen below 16%. As a result, strict water restrictions were imposed and water consumption per person was capped at 210 litres per day.

The drought is due to increasingly hot and drier weather in Catalonia. The region is now banned from using drinking water for street cleaning or watering lawns, but limits on the amount of water that can be used in industry and agriculture have been raised. If water resources continue to dwindle, they could even use cargo ships to transport water to Barcelona.

Nowadays can be read in the world press that locals turned against tourists, in Barcelonaas well in the Canary Islands and Mallorca. the main reason for which is mass tourism itself, but tension has also become significant due to water shortage, since while farmers and residents have limited access to water, hotels flow an average of 250-300 L/day/guest into the sewer.

Today, water scarcity has become a global problem, which spills over into Western societies and underdeveloped regions of the developing World in different ways. The problem seems irreversible, and the world doesn’t seem to be really looking for a solution.

“According to a UN report, one in six people in the world does not have access to clean drinking water”. According to studies, the population of water-scarce countries could grow from nearly half a billion at the turn of the millennium to 3 billion by 2025. It is unfortunate that some tabloid media sensationally report on tragic events, demonstrations or wars among the needy. Many politicians, governments and NGOs benefit from exploiting the situation and using community resources for their own purposes rather than serving the community. Or rather, you prefer to buy weapons.

There are, of course, a good number of journalists with a professional mission who provide objective coverage of the tragic situation caused by water scarcity, and there are organizations – usually independent of governments and financial groups – who do their utmost to really help those in need. Unfortunately, they are fewer than self-serving organizations, thanks to whom it is estimated that today no more than USD 13 out of every 110 USD is used for its original purpose. That is where we are at the moment and, unfortunately, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. The following solutions are known and promoted to address the world’s drinking water problem:

  1. Water purification and filtration: Effective water purification and filtration systems can help purify contaminated water. These can be household or community-sized equipment.
  2. Reservoirs and watershed: Reservoirs and rainwater harvesting systems can help store and recycle water. For example, rainwater draining from the roof can be collected and used.
  3. Well drilling and well construction: Drilling wells and building wells in areas where surface water sources are lacking can help provide access to drinking water.
  4. Desalination: Desalination of seas and oceans may be a way of producing drinking water (mostly afforded by rich countries), but it is an extremely expensive, energy-intensive and environmentally destructive technology.

… and there is a new water technology that may be a solution for many, but in Europe “the shoes are not tight enough” to spread. This is AWG -the atmospheric water production: It’s so natural that we don’t even think about the water around us. Yes, the vapor stored by the air can be our inexhaustible source of drinking water! Using the revolutionary water production and treatment technology offered by AWG-Europe anyone can ensure a clean and healthy water source tailored to their needs (10 L/day to 10,000 L/day). When used with solar energy, it is a completely environmentally friendly, independent of service providers and can be operated practically free of charge.

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