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This fact file highlights the health consequences of water scarcity, its impact on daily life and how it could impede international development. It urges everyone to be part of efforts to conserve and protect the resource.
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www.who.int/features/factfiles/water/en/index.html
www.who.int/features/factfiles/water/en/index.html
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Imbalances between availability and demand, the degradation of groundwater and surface water quality, intersectoral competition, interregional and international conflicts, all contributes to water scarcity. Scarcity often has its roots in w...
http://www.fao.org/nr/water/issues/scarcity.html
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Water scarcity affects all social and economic sectors and threatens the sustainability of the natural resources base. ... Land and Water discussion paper 7 : Coping with Water Scarcity: What Role for Biotechnologies?
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www.fao.org/nr/water/
www.fao.org/nr/water/
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While Europe is by and large considered as having adequate water resources, water scarcity is an increasingly frequent phenomenon in the European Union. The long-term ... Addressing water scarcity and droughts : Commission Communication identifying policy options to increase water efficiency and water savings...
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ec.europa.eu/environment/water/quantity/scarcity_en.htm
ec.europa.eu/environment/water/quantity/scarcity_en.htm
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Drought - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation. It ca...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought
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Click here to view the most recent Water Resources Indicator and Data;; Water scarcity may be the most underestimated resource issue facing the world today. As world water demand has more than tripled over the last half-century, signs of water scarcity have become commonplace.
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www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/indicator7.htm
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Some have predicted that conflicts over water scarcity are inevitable, but what does the record show? ... In reporting a recent story on a fight over water between residents of a small Colorado town and Nestlé Waters North America, a bottled water company, I learned much about water scarcity around the world, and the sense...
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features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/10/26/could-wat...
features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/10/26/could-water-scarcity-cause-international-conflict/
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Humanity is facing ... Humanity is facing "water bankruptcy" as a result of a crisis even greater than the financial meltdown now destabilising the global economy, two authoritative new reports show. They add that it is already beginning to take effect, and there will be no way of bailing the earth out of water scarcity.
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www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/water-...
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/water-scarcity-now-bigger-threat-than-financial-crisis-1645358.html
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