In an interview with Ma Jun, the Asia Water Project asked after the companies that are proving most responsive to these steps.
In February 2010, the Company acquired Asia Water Technology Ltd. (Asia Water).
Experts believe South Asia's water problems are due more to a lack of planning than actual shortages.
Seven years ago, a Canadian company announced a plan to ship Great Lakes water to Asia.
It was converted into the biggest water park in Asia last summer, complete with rides for the kids and a spa for the grown-ups.
The new bank report calculates that about 830 million people throughout the Asia Pacific region lack safe drinking water and over two billion lack sanitation facilities.
Water infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region is shifting from predominantly short-term benefit planning and development, to a more strategic and long-term benefit planning concept that also addresses ecological efficiency in economic growth.
As a result of demographic and economic development pressures, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia will face major challenges coping with water problems.
The way would be open to supply Russia with much needed arms through the Dardanelles, the strip of water that separates Europe and Asia, and the Russians would march triumphantly to Berlin.
The countryside is where 85% of all water is used in Africa, Asia and Central America.
It is the least irrigated and electrified, yet it uses only 3% of its renewable water, against 52% in South Asia.
In Asia it accounts for 86% of total annual water withdrawal, compared with 49% in North and Central America and 38% in Europe.
Janin highlights isolated communities in Africa and South America as well as remote islands in Asia that have little or no access to safe drinking water as potential beneficiaries of the technology.
"All the corporates are still sitting it out and aren't being dragged into the water screaming and kicking as they are elsewhere in Asia, " says Rountree.
Marubeni says it intends to become one of the top 10 players in the global water business, especially in emerging markets in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.
Dr Gedney and her colleagues acknowledge that their model does not fully take into account the use of water to irrigate crops particularly important in Asia and Europe nor the question of urban growth.
In South Asia, for example, climate change is likely to bring more water to a perennially thirsty region.
Radioactivity contaminated the soil and sea near the plant, the Tokyo water supply and trace amounts of radiation are being detected in Asia and North America.
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Many researchers now believe that the first route followed was along the coast of the Indian Ocean and that water transportation was invented very early on to reach islands in Southeast Asia.
There are few people to handle difficult cross-regional topics such as water resources or climate change, and few linguists fluent in tongues helpful beyond Asia.
On the water front, not only is dirty quality still a big problem in much of Asia, but scarce quantity, too.
Mr. OLIVIER CARDUNER (USAID Asia): So what you have in the early days is all of a sudden no access to clean water.
Donor countries should increase the volume of aid flows going to water and sanitation programs and target it to the least developed countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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