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Wednesday 23 May 2018
Rapid Urbanization to Boost the Water Treatment Chemicals

paving the way for new in- segments the global wa-
dustries to grow and tech- ter treatment chemicals
nologies to be introduced market into the following
in these nations. Africa is applications (municipal-
the fastest growing region ity water treatment, power
with a growth rate of 2.52% generation, pulp and pa-
annually. Of the entire per, metal and mining, and
global population, around oil and gas) and key re-
54% live in urban areas. This gions (the Americas, APAC,
number is expected to in- and EMEA). It provides an
crease during the forecast exhaustive analysis of the
period. Despite having low- prominent factors influ-
er levels of urbanization, encing the market, includ-
Asia is home to 53% of the ing drivers, opportunities,
world’s urban population. trends, and industry-specif-
According to a senior ana- ic challenges.
lyst at Technavio for spe- Of the five major applica-
cialty chemicals, “There tions, the municipality wa-
is a critical need to fulfill ter treatment segment held
the demand for water in the largest market share in
Technavio has published a new market research report on the global water treatment chemicals the household and indus- 2017, contributing to more
market from 2018-2022. (Graphic: Business Wire) trial applications due to than 38% of the market. The
the increased demand market share occupied by
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)- major technological ad- more efficient and require for products and services. this segment is expected to
-May 22, 2018--Technavio vances in water purification less pressure to pass water Water has emerged as an increase by around 3% dur-
research analysts have include nanotechnology, across the filter. Cleaning important source to meet ing the forecast period.
forecasted the global wa- acoustics nanotube tech- these filters is easier when the requirements of indus- APAC dominated the glob-
ter treatment chemicals nology, graphene-based compared with the tradi- tries. Not all organizations al water treatment chemi-
market to grow at a CAGR hybrid membranes, ozon- tional systems. are well-equipped with the cals market in 2017, ac-
of approximately 7% dur- etech ozone/BAC systems, Rapid urbanization and rise recycling of used water. counting for a market share
ing the period 2018-2022, in and trojan UV-oxidation in population Thus, there is a rising need of nearly 40%. This region is
their latest report. The tech- systems. Nanotechnology Urbanization in develop- for better water treatment expected to demonstrate
nological advances in wa- is a complicated but less ing countries such as India, technologies in countries.” significant growth and the
ter purification are a major harmful method. In com- China, Brazil, Malaysia, and Water treatment chemicals market share occupied by
trend being witnessed in parison with conventional Mexico has been increas- - market segmentation this region is anticipated to
the market. Some of the systems, nano filters are ing at a faster pace and This market research report increase by almost 3%.q
Humans account for little next to plants, worms, bugs

By SETH BORENSTEIN biomass. The planet's real children's books about el-
WASHINGTON (AP) — heavyweights are plants. ephants and lions, a more
When you weigh all life on They outweigh people by honest representation of
Earth, billions of humans about 7,500 to 1, and make Earth's animals would be "a
don't amount to much up more than 80 percent of cow next to another cow,
compared to trees, earth- the world's biomass, a study next to another cow next
worms or even viruses. But in Monday's Proceedings of to a chicken," Milo said.
we really know how to the National Academy of Milo and colleagues took
throw what little weight we Sciences said. earlier research that looked
have around, according to Bacteria are nearly 13 at biomass for different
a first-of-its-kind global cen- percent of the world's bio- types of life, combined
sus of the footprint of life on mass. Fungi — yeast, mold them, factored in climate,
the planet. and mushrooms — make geography and other envi-
Humans only add up to up about 2 percent. These ronmental issues, to come
about one ten-thousandth estimates aren't very exact, up with a planetwide look
of the life on Earth, mea- the real numbers could be at the scale of life on the
sured by the dry weight more or less, but they give In this April 11, 2018, file photo, two boys push their scooters planet. Taking water out of
of the carbon that makes a sense of proportion, said through a park with green blossoming trees in Frankfurt, Ger- the equation and measur-
up the structure of all liv- study lead author Ron Milo, many. ing only dry carbon makes
ing things, also known as a biologist at the Weizmann Associated Press it easier for scientists to
compare species. About
Institute of Science in Israel. civilization started, humans one-sixth the weight of a
"The fact that the biomass helped cut the total weight human is dry carbon. Hu-
of fungi exceeds that of of plants by half and wild mans are about two-thirds
all animals sort of puts us mammals by 85 percent, water. “Even though short
in our place," said Harvard the study said. in numbers, we have man-
evolutionary biology pro- Now domesticated cat- aged to throw a lot of sand
fessor James Hanken, who tle and pigs outweigh all in the air and mess up a lot
wasn't part of the study.Still, wild mammals by 14 to 1, of things,” said noted Har-
humans have an outsized while the world's chickens vard biologist E.O. Wilson,
influence on its more mas- are triple the weight of all who wasn’t involved in the
sive fellow creatures. Since the wild birds. Instead of study.q