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Water for all –Water for all –

ObligationObligation Challenge Challenge

ChanceChanceDr.-Ing. E.h. Hans G. HuberC.E.O.

Hans Huber AG, BerchingMaschinen- und Anlagenbau

ETAP – 6th European Forum on Eco-Innovation2-3 April 2009, Berlin

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Face the problems

Population without sanitation

Population without access to drinking water

"Water is life and because we"Water is life and because wehave no water, life is have no water, life is miserable."miserable."

Farmer from KenyaFarmer from Kenya

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No Life without Water!No Life without Water!

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ObligationObligation

Water for use in agriculture to ensure adequate provision of food

Water for human consumption and for domestic use

Water for industries to create employment and to provide secure income for employees

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Obligation

Increase in consumption

Rising pollution

Climate change

Constantly growing world population

Change in consumer behaviour and eating habits

The situation will grow worse due to

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Challenge

Politicians whom we must persuade to act

Scientists who need to develop and support adequate technologies

Industrial stakeholders who need to offer these technologies to the market

Stakeholders from the international financial world who need to accept these technologies and to finance the right adapted technologies

So it is a challenge for

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Challenge

Water reuseSmall closed loop systems will provide straightforward solutions which, in turn, are needed for

Flexible and modular closed loop systems which are easy to implement, operate and control

Adapted technologies

We will need decentralized supply and disposal for

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Water Reuse and Water Recycling

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There are more problems

„In most developing countries, wastewater treatment and reuse standards are inspired by standards of industrialized countries, mainly the USA and EU, without taking into account financing and construction time issues. These standards usually prescribe an effluent of such quality that secondary treatment or higher is required to produce it, irrespective of the absorption capacity of the receiving body (i.e., the capacity of the receiving body is not taken into account in the standard setting process). Since the costs of applying these standards are high, usually beyond reach in developing countries, the overly stringent effluent standards induce a strategy of “No Action” with devastating public health and environmental impacts”.

From: Menahem Libhaber: Establishing Wastewater Treatment Levels in Developing Countries; Stringent Effluent Standards Versus Absorption Capacity of Receiving Bodies. Presentation

during the Water Week in Washington, February, 2004

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Chance

Politicians to solve these problems

Scientists to focus on targeted and practical research which offer adequate solutions to the water situation worldwide

Companies to produce and integrate adapted technologies and to implement related business concepts

A chance for

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Chance

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Chance

Respond to this obligation

Consider the global water situationas a challenge

See and catch our chances !

It is necessary that we

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Water is a Gift of God Water is a Gift of God

Thank you for your Thank you for your

attention !attention !

Dr.-Ing. E.h. Hans G. HuberHans Huber AGIndustriepark Erasbach A192334 BerchingGermany

E-Mail :hh@huber.dePhone : +49 / 8462-201-0