Freshwater Scarcity: The Greatest Crisis Most Americans Have Never Heard Of | PBS
Posted on April 22nd, 2010.“As the environmental crisis worsens, the political perils become more explosive. Freshwater scarcity is a key reason why 3.5 billion people — including those in current grain exporter India, as well as throughout the bone-dry Middle East — are projected to live in countries that cannot feed themselves by 2025 and will depend increasingly on volatile imported food prices for their well-being and survival. Humanitarian and health crises are likely to emanate from the 2.6 billion without adequate sanitation and the 1 billion who lack safe, accessible drinking water.”
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