Company promising tanker deliveries but high cost might make it just a pipe dream by Lisa Song – Sep 4th, 2010 Imagine an oil tanker plowing through the ocean, hauling valuable cargo from resource-rich nations of the world to the countries that need it: but instead of oil, the tanker holds millions of gallons of [...]

The availability of bulk water availabe for export has increased over the past years and there now appears to be three countries leading the way.  These countries are New Zealand, United States of America and Iceland. New Zealand The New Zealand company, Aquazeal, has a substantial amount of pristine water available for export in bottles, [...]

Dams, reservoirs and desalination plants are expensive things to build on the off-chance that there is a drought. Gordon Cope explores a low, fixed-cost alternative to infrastructure investment. There is a mismatch between water scarcity and water infrastructure. For most countries (except permanently arid regions such as Saudi Arabia) water scarcity is a seasonal, unpredictable [...]

From the Roman aqueducts to modern-day pipelines, bulk water transportation hasn’t changed over the years.  Pipelines work well where there is an ongoing need over a long period of time so that the economic cost of construction can be recovered.  However pipelines can be an expensive alternative where there the need is ad-hoc or in [...]