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...been a longstanding belief that the next big wars will not be fought over oil, but rather over an even more precious substance: water. A recent study by the World Resource Institute (WRI) states that global water consumption rose sixfold in the first half of the last decade--a rate more than twice as high as human population growth in the same time period...
...previously released study by the United Nations points to the causes of the dramatic increase. At the moment, irrigation already accounts for roughly 70 percent of global water consumption, and the U. N. projects a 50- to 100-percent increase in agricultural water use by the year 2025. The WRI study translates these trends into the immediate impact to humans: by 2025, over 3.5 billion people--a bit under half the world's population--will experience water shortages. Particularly developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa as well as such populous countries as India, Bangladesh and also to a lesser extent...
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