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media type="custom" key="17533690" media type="custom" key="18960736"Research : Water is the worlds most important natural resource. Underground reserves that farmers used to be able to reach only a few feet deep, are now so low, that a hole drilled half a mile down cannot find water. Our demands on water are increasing so much, that we are exhausting our water sources. The world faces a huge water crisis. One in six people do not have daily immediate access to fresh, clean water. In the 1960s and 1970s, the world experienced its first great fear that it would not be able to feed itself as the population was expected to double in the next thirty years. Scientists created a new generation of plants like rice, corn and wheat that they believed would keep the world fed. But those crops used much more water than the crops they replaced. So now, while the world grows twice as much food as it did a generation ago, it takes three times more water to do it. So instead of running out of land to grow food, we are running out of water to grow them. Economists predict that by the year 2025, with the same water use patterns and growing populations like today, the need for water will cut global food production by 350 million tons a year.

Five W's - Water Filter Who- Philip Emery invented the water filter. What-The water fillter Where- unknown When-in 1977 Why- They can fliter out a variety of contanimants including bacteria and chliorine. media type="custom" key="17930088"