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Originally Posted by KRL
Water's not a problem??
The World Bank reports that 80 countries now have water shortages that threaten health and economies while 40 percent of the world ? more than 2 billion people ? have no access to clean water or sanitation.
As populations grow, industrial, agricultural and individual water demands escalate. According to the World Bank, world-wide demand for water is doubling every 21 years, more in some regions. Water supply cannot remotely keep pace with demand, as populations soar and cities explode.
Half the world's rivers and lakes are seriously polluted with toxic substances.
By 2025 the demand for fresh water will rise by 56 percent and as many as two-thirds of the world's population will be living with serious water shortages or absolute water scarcity.
The US National Intelligence Council, a group that reports to the CIA, warns that water will become the main resource-scarcity problem by 2015 and that the instability created by water shortages "will increasingly affect the national security of the United States."
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national security seems to be the standard footer on all reports these days giving them legitimacy in the media. just as a gas shortage "scared" the government into conservation efforts and alternative energy water is becoming the new scare tactic. who cares if it hits in 2025 anyways, we'll all be dead of skin cancer from global warming diminishing the ozone layer
