The following article correctly identifies a key problem of solving the world's water needs. Toward the end of the article, the author notes that the developed world has made many efforts to build water treatment equipment around the world, but many times these systems are not properly operated or maintained and soon fail to provide the communities the much needed water they were designed to provide.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/23/what.matters.thirst/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCText
For those of us working in the industry, there is a need to consider how we can develop "appropriate" water treatment technology that will work for the people most effected in these areas without water. These need to be simple and easy to operate and maintainable by the people who are the ultimate end users.
There is a slideshow that accompanies this article here
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