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Water shortages will leave world in dire straits by Dan Vergano, USA TODAY ~ More than half of humanity will be living with water shortages, depleted fisheries and polluted coastlines within 50 years because of a worldwide water crisis, warns a United Nations report out Monday. Waste and inadequate management of water are the main culprits behind growing problems, particularly in poverty-ridden regions, says the study, the most comprehensive of its kind. The United Nations Environment Programme, working with more than 200 water resource experts worldwide, produced the report.

Global Water Shortage Looms In New Century: When most U.S. citizens think about water shortages — if they think about them at all — they think about a local problem, possibly in their town or city, maybe their state or region. We don't usually regard such problems as particularly worrisome, sharing confidence that the situation will be readily handled by investment in infrastructure, conservation, or other management strategies. Whatever water feuds arise, e.g., between Arizona and California, we expect to be resolved through negotiations or in the courtroom. But shift from a local to a global water perspective, and the terms dramatically change. 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. In this context, we cannot expect water conflicts to always be amenably resolved.

Problems: WATER SHORTAGES: “There is simply no way to overstate the fresh water crisis on the planet today.” Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water. A water crisis of catastrophic proportions is about to explode. Fresh water is a finite resource. The amount of fresh water supply provided by the hydrological cycle does not increase. Water everywhere on the planet is an integral part of the global hydrologic cycle. Precipitation originates as evaporation from land and the oceans. Soil moisture is used by plants, which return more moisture to the atmosphere, which then returns to Earth as rain or snow. Barlow and Clark add, “Unless we dramatically change our ways, between one-half and two-thirds of humanity will be living with severe freshwater shortages within the next quarter-century.

Worldwide Water Shortage to Worsen ~ WASHINGTON (AROL) -- Supplies of fresh water worldwide, already under strain because of population growth, face further threats from pollution and increased demands, says a new academic study released here.

THE THREAT OF WATER SHORTAGES IN CANADA by Harry Valentine: Within the past month, several news media articles focused on research reports about the effects of global warming and climate change on Canada. Those effects are supposed to include less summer rainfall, more summer droughts, more winter ice storms, more winter rainfall, reduced hydro-electric generation capacity and dropping water levels in the Great Lakes. In one report, Prof. Philippe Crabbe of the University of Ottawa recommended that climate change be a provincial responsibility, urging that both provincial and municipal governments adjust their services in response to the expected weather changes. All the reports were government funded and all recommended increased funding and expanded authority to various government agencies. No reference was made to the fact that a plethora of academic material reveals that governmental regulatory policies administered by such agencies almost consistently fail in the long term.

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