
The world’s billionth computer was manufactured in 2002. No doubt another billion computers will be manufactured shortly. No wonder the average annual growth of the global semiconductor industry is close to 20% per year.
In spite of strong efforts at water saving and recovery, copious amounts of ultra pure water will be used by the industry in the coming years.
As an example, the amount of water used to manufacture
one
2-gram memory chip is 36 liter.