(The Center Square) – The global water crisis has already begun, experts say, with the United Nations reporting that 2 billion people worldwide already lack access to clean drinking water and 3.6 billion without safe sanitation.

While the situation is expected to worsen, one variable has been cast alternately as savior and stressor for the world’s water supply: artificial intelligence .

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The Center Square spoke with Howard Neukrug, former commissioner and CEO of Philadelphia Water and executive director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Water Center, which has recently launch

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