- Challenge: Southwest States may lose some of their sources of water due to slowing water cycles and population expansion.
- Opportunity: Natural Blue Resources has secured access to over 430,000 acre feet of deep water rights.
Mission Statement: Developing new water sources through an environmentally friendly approach, benefiting communities in a visionary manner.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography and World Wildlife Fund for Nature have published reports explaining the dire state of global fresh water supplies: in the Southwestern U.S., Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the largest water source for millions of people, have a 50% probability of drying up by 2021.
While water covers 70% of earth’s surface, 97% of it is saltwater which is unfit for human consumption. Potable, accessible, fresh water constitutes less than 1% of the water found.
The World Bank reports that 80 countries now have water shortages that threaten health and economies while 40 percent of the world, more than 2 billion people, do not have access to clean water or sanitation.
Reserves of fresh water continue to drop at alarming rates. Extracted from underground aquifers or flakes, rivers, streams, these sources renew themselves through the water cycle. This is where water moves from the earth to the air and back again. The most basic problem is this - as our population grows, so do the demands placed on these resources.