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Populations rise above the ability of the water supply to give them the amount of water they need. In countries labeled here: Serious - ground water is being mined and will fail
in the near future One of the main symptoms of global warming will be the expansion of the global deserts towards the poles. Thus: southern Europe, midwestern United States; southern Australia are likely to become drier, and perhaps uninhabitable. It is not clear yet whether the Monsoon rain belts may also move nearer the poles, thus the Sahel may become wetter. Even if this happens the loss of agricultural land will be much larger than any gain of tropical land. | Water Wars
- Vandana Shiva Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit |
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