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Water will be one of of tomorrow’s most critical commodities. Some 1.2 billion
people today have no access to potable water, and water consumption will grow world-
wide some 40 percent by 2025. The multi-billion annual market for water and waste-
water systems globally is huge and Siemens already has a broad spectrum of solutions
for the full cycle of water processing – from preparing fresh water, to distributing it,
to processing wastewater. Our acquisition of USFilter is already helping us ensure mar-
ket leadership in this field.
Worldwide demand for power is expected to grow some 70 percent by 2020. About
40 percent of this demand will be in developed nations, 60 percent in the developing
world. To meet this voracious demand, an intelligent energy mix – including fossil
or nuclear fuels and renewable energy sources such as wind, biomass, hydro and geo-
thermal – is needed. In each case, as well as in the reliable transmission of energy
without the loss of power, Siemens is already tomorrow’s trendsetter in power gen-
eration and transmission.
In many industrialized and developing countries – particularly in large megacities
– mobility is reaching a point of gridlock. For example, it’s estimated that the German
economy alone loses some €100 billion per year in fuel costs, lost time and additional
CO2emissions due to traffic jams. Each year, Americans spend 3.5 billion hours stuck
in traffic. Siemens has the solutions to help in terms of high-performance rail systems,
intelligent telematics solutions, fleet management, highway e-payment systems and
other innovations to improve people’s mobility.
Security – in traffic as well as buildings – will continue to grow in importance in
urban areas as populations rise, spectators flock to events in mega-stadiums, and air-
ports process ever-growing numbers of passengers. Here, too, Siemens is leading the
trends. We’re piloting, for example, a cutting-edge biometric passenger recognition
system with Lufthansa and have installed an RFID-based system on admissions tickets
in Stuttgart, Germany, that speeds up control and prevents misuse.
Siemens’ infrastructure solutions position us extremely well to leverage and profit
from the megatrends of tomorrow, and these are only a few examples of our power
of innovation at work. And today, we’re making even stronger inroads now that we’re
offering our customers our products, services and solutions from one source through
Siemens One. By bundling our capabilities, we can offer more customers more inno-
vation than ever before.