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5 Sobering Realities about Global Water Security
2013-01-30 19:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Some people say that water is the oil of the 21st Century. If only water were that simple. Water is very complicated. Its affected by large-scale issues like climate change and globalization. International commerce moves virtual water (the water it takes to grow or produce a product) from farms in Brazil to grocery stores in China and Egypt. But water is also inherently local, impacted by site-specific weather, geography, and other environmental and land use conditions. Managing and using...
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