Expert Sees Hope for World’s Water Supply

WASHINGTON — More of the world’s population can be supplied with drinking and irrigation water at even lower cost in the future, according to Jay H. Lehr.

Lehr, executive director of the National Water Well Assn., says, “As water problems grow and financial support shrinks, the need for lower-cost, innovative, common-sense solutions to world water problems must take center stage.

“Coordination of all available supplies, rather than bias toward one or another, is why I firmly believe there is hope for long-range, low-cost solutions.”