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Think of water use in water-scarce Spain for growing strawberries or tomatoes for export, use for soybean in Brazil to feed UK livestock, or in Pakistan or Central Asia for producing cheap cotton.
Arjen Hoekstra's innovation: the water footprint Lucy Siegle 2010
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The Jordan river basin, which includes the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea that border Israel, is one of the most water-scarce river basins on Earth.
Water Security in the Promised Land Roger Bate 2010
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The equatorial regions of east Africa are drying up as fast as the tinderbox hills and water-scarce fields of Australia's Murray Darling Basin.
J. Carl Ganter: Cancun Climate Negotiators Anticipate Scant Progress J. Carl Ganter 2010
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The equatorial regions of east Africa are drying up as fast as the tinderbox hills and water-scarce fields of Australia's Murray Darling Basin.
J. Carl Ganter: Cancun Climate Negotiators Anticipate Scant Progress J. Carl Ganter 2010
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The equatorial regions of east Africa are drying up as fast as the tinderbox hills and water-scarce fields of Australia's Murray Darling Basin.
J. Carl Ganter: Cancun Climate Negotiators Anticipate Scant Progress J. Carl Ganter 2010
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The Jordan river basin, which includes the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea that border Israel, is one of the most water-scarce river basins on Earth.
Water Security in the Promised Land Roger Bate 2010
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Cue a global scramble to build more of the wretched things? not least in water-scarce countries such as Cyprus, China and Spain.
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What this means in human terms is that unless things change, 5 billion people will live in water-scarce areas by 2025.
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The Jordan river basin, which includes the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea that border Israel, is one of the most water-scarce river basins on Earth.
Water Security in the Promised Land Roger Bate 2010
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What this means in human terms is that unless things change, 5 billion people will live in water-scarce areas by 2025.
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