Another inconvenient truth

According to a report by the International Water Management Institute, by 2025, about one third of the world’s population, perhaps as many as 3 billion people, will face water shortages. From an agricultural standpoint, we may be looking at losses equivalent to the entire grain crops of India and the United States by then. According to some estimates, even without biofuels, we will very likely reach the upper limit of available fresh water for worldwide consumption, more than 2.9 billion cubic miles, by 2050. A growing reliance on biofuels would exacerbate an already difficult challenge.

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Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/05/opinion/edn

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