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Humanity's Growing Impact on the World's Freshwater

Posted on Feb 23, 2012, Source: National Geographic's Water Currents

It takes water to make everything, and the explosion of demand for all manner of products is draining rivers, shrinking lakes and depleting aquifers.

Our Water Crisis Will Be More Challenging Than Our Energy Crisis: How Do We Adapt?

Posted on Sep 3, 2010, Source: Post Carbon Institute

Challenges posed by water in the coming decades will rival those posed by declining oil supplies.

How Much Longer Until We Run Out of Enough Drinkable Water?

Posted on Jun 25, 2010, Source: YES! Magazine

Just as the economic crash is forcing Americans to reassess what they value financially, the water crisis requires us to pay attention to how we value and use water.

China's Unquenchable Thirst

Posted on Jan 24, 2008, Source: World Watch

Freshwater is the resource most strained by China's staggering growth over the last 20 years.
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