Water cannot leave our planet and it does not arrive from space. The amount of water available on earth always stays the same, it’s the availability of water that changes. In Bangladesh, small villages use packs of pills distributed by NGOs to purify pond water and make it drinkable. In Pacific Island countries, expensive desalination […]
People will often talk about how children are our most important resource. That’s bollocks. Go a few days without water and you’re dead. You don’t have to Google for very long before you find a bunch of depressing statistics about all of the ways our freshwater systems are under pressure. You may remember back in […]
Nothing will make you feel more alive than exploring a country with no fences. Rent a Mongolian mule – the Mustang Shineray 150 – in Ulaanbaatar and set off into the most sparsely populated country in the world, trying not to hit any of the five jewels – horses, goats, camels, cows, and sheep – […]
About one in three people on the planet currently lack access to safe drinking water, according to the World Health Organization. You might recall that Cape Town nearly ran out of freshwater last year, and cities from Tokyo to London could also face water shortages in the next few decades. You’re probably thinking that the […]
We recently marveled at the rapid growth of an Internet of Things (IoT) startup called Samsara that went from $0 to $6.3 billion in valuation in just four years, quickly dominating sectors like fleet management and industrial automation. Of course, we live in a fantasy startup world where herds of billion-dollar unicorns roam wild, consuming […]
Water is one of the most important prerequisites for life. It can’t be created nor destroyed, but it can be damaged or unusable to begin with. While the Earth has lots of water, only 2.5% is freshwater that we can use for drinking. Around 70% of that freshwater is contained in glaciers, ice, and snow, so this leaves […]
While artificial intelligence may be the new electricity, water is the new gold. The investment thesis is simple. How can we invest in water infrastructure before the water crisis happens? Some say it’s already here. Esquire put out a great piece of journalism a few days ago titled The Water Crises Aren’t Coming—They’re Here which […]
Some days it seems like the world is going to end in a sudden fireball. Other times we predict a slow, painful death. It’s little wonder we writers drink so heavily writing about all of this turmoil day after day. That’s why we like our jobs here at Nanalyze. It’s not that we think technology […]
They say a man can’t live on beer alone. Technically, one could survive for a few weeks before succumbing from dehydration through the diuretic effect. Add water to your diet and you can definitely make it through Lent, as the monks of old would do, before scurvy killed you. Our point is that water is […]
Where Are All the Desalination Stocks? When we first wrote about investing in desalination, we didn’t know that it would turn out to be one of our most popular articles over time. As it turns out, there are quite a few investors out there who are interested in desalination investing. Unfortunately, there aren’t really any […]