Bigger, and closer, than most of us realise.
The nitrogen debate is important. The climate conversation is essential. But if you rank the immediate risks to human health and livelihood, water sits at the top of the list. It is upstream of almost every other outcome we care about.The individual footprint is only a small part.
A lot of the coverage focuses on personal water use. That matters, but it is a small slice of the total picture. The bigger levers are agricultural, industrial, and institutional. Community water systems, the kind we work on, sit right in the middle of that picture.What this piece is really about.
- The scale of the water gap in the regions we work in.
- Why community owned models are better placed to close that gap than one off projects.
- What our next seven year plan looks like as a response.