Articles tagged as: irrigation areas
World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis
August 20, 2008
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 18, 2008 (ENS) – The world’s supplies of clean, fresh water cannot sustain today’s “profligate” use and inadequate management, which have brought shrinking food supplies and rising food costs to most countries, WWF Director General James Leape told the opening session of World Water Week in Stockholm today. “Behind the world food [...]
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