[Vision2020] Fwd: Earth Policy News- World's Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure

[Tom Trail]

>Visionaries:


This information about mounting problems of water scarcity worldwide may
be of interest.

Tom Trail

>Eco-Economy Indicator – WATER
>July 26, 2006
>
>Eco-Economy Indicators are the twelve trends the Earth Policy Institute
>tracks to measure progress in building an environmentally sustainable
>economy--an eco-economy. Water resources are an indicator because water
>scarcity may be the most underrated resource issue the world is facing
>today.
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>WORLD’S WATER RESOURCES FACE MOUNTING PRESSURE
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>Elizabeth Mygatt
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>Global freshwater use tripled during the second half of the twentieth
>century as population more than doubled and as technological advances let
>farmers and other water users pump groundwater from greater depths and
>harness river water with more and larger dams. As global demand soars,
>pressures on the world’s water resources are straining aquatic systems
>worldwide. Rivers are running dry, lakes are disappearing, and water
>tables are dropping.
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>For entire text see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Water/2006.htm
>For data see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Water/2006_data.htm
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>For an index of Earth Policy Institute resources related to Water Scarcity
>see http://www.earthpolicy.org/Indicators/Water/index.htm
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>
>And for more information on water resources, see Chapters 3, 8, 9, and 11
>in PLAN B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in
>Trouble by Lester R. Brown (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006), posted
>at http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB2/index.htm
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