The Unsexy Investment That Could Outlast Us All
Let’s be honest, the investment world can be a bit of a circus. Everyone is chasing the next shiny object, be it a baffling cryptocurrency or a tech start-up that promises to revolutionise how we order a takeaway. I find it all rather exhausting. While the crowd is distracted by the noise, I prefer to look at the things that are fundamentally, unavoidably important. And I can’t think of anything more fundamental than water.
The simple fact is, we’re running out of the stuff. Not in a dramatic, Hollywood disaster movie sort of way, but in a slow, grinding, economically painful way. From California to Cape Town, the warnings have been flashing for years. The old model of using water once and then chucking it away is, to put it mildly, completely bonkers. It’s like buying a brand new car, driving it to the shops, and then immediately sending it to the scrapheap. It’s a system designed in a bygone era, and it’s breaking.