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Author(s) -
Binney Peter D.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
opflow
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8701.2011.tb02377.x
Subject(s) - sustainability , agriculture , natural resource economics , business , water use , population , environmental economics , population growth , current (fluid) , range (aeronautics) , environmental planning , environmental resource management , environmental science , engineering , economics , geography , ecology , demography , archaeology , sociology , biology , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering
Beyond current commitments, water providers will have to meet a growing demand for water supplies as the nation's population increases by another 100 million people by 2050. Increasingly, utilities will compete with reservations of water for environmental purposes and a range of other water‐dependent users, including agriculture and energy producers.