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Growing industrial demand raises questions about water supply, while financing depends on reliable revenues and stronger governance.
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As industrialisation, digital infrastructure and climate pressures reshape demand, companies are being pushed to look beyond how much water they consume and ask whether the wider systems they depend on can sustain long-term growth.
Plastic pollution and drug-resistant infections are usually regarded as separate global crises. But emerging research suggests links between them: Microplastic particles in the environment are colonised by bacteria, and those bacteria develop antibiotic resistance at an unprecedented rate.
Health authorities in Thailand have found arsenic in two people living near the Kok River. Heavy metals have also been found in the water and fish of Kok and other rivers.
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