Did you know that every day the population on earth grows with more than 220,000 people? And three days from now, earth will be home to more than 684,000 extra people? For some more interesting facts, you can look on this site.

Every human on earth needs water and food. But the fresh water isn’t endless, and we must be careful with it. To ensure that every person on earth has enough fresh water, is going to be our second most difficult challenge to solve in the 21st century.

The first most difficult challenge to solve, is to convince our politicians that they have to start thinking about solving the food and water problems. If you look at the daily actions of politicians in the US and Europe, you will see that the politicians have spent five years and over eight trillion US dollars to save the financial system. But they haven’t spend any day or dollar trying to solve the food and water problem. And do you know why? When you are poor and you make one dollar each day, a rising price of rice per kilo from 30 cents to 80 cents, eats up almost half of your income. But when you make over 500 dollars each day, what most politicians do, then this rising prices eats up only one thousandth part of your income, so it is not a big problem.

When a politician in Holland is send home by their voters, their friends from the financial world offer them excellent jobs after their careers. So it is very logic that the financial world is saved by the politicians, they are close friends and offer job security. So if we want to solve the food and water problem, we have to do it ourselves. We should not wait for politicians but take our own responsibility!

Groasis is working hard on finding solutions to grow good and healty crops while using less fertilizers and less water. This year we publish a series of videos on YouTube with the promising title ‘’More food with less water’’. Visit our YouTube channel and find out that we have found interesting solutions for the food and water problems.

Pieter Hoff,
The Green Musketeer