TRANSCRIPTION:
Riggs: Hello everyone and welcome to the live Zoom briefing of the 30th of January.
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This briefing is now called Water Is The New Gold, as you know. Really that underlines that number one, this is a sustainability thing. Water is with us, it's not going to go away, but at the same time it's increasingly scarce. Why? Because we're frankly using the rivers and oceans as a toilet. Only 20% of the sewage in the world gets treated, that's 80% of what we dump goes into the water. This is not true so much in the West, our percentage is more like the opposite percentage, but then we have almost no sewage treatment in other countries, and that's a major problem. Also, population growth is an issue, so as populations grow, we have a problem keeping up.
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