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January 24, 2006
News of the day illustrates global water crises
In putting together this blog, I usually make an effort to write about the most current water crises somewhere in the world. Today, however it struck me that the drinking water news just today, should lead us all to wonder how we will deal with the growing potable water shortage.
In Mumbai, India today, where the city runs short of 900 million litres of water every day, water tanker deliver trucks have almost doubled their rate, taking advantage of the crises, as reported by the Times of India.
Irrigation farmers from the Burdekin region in north Queensland, Australia must repay more than $4 million in unpaid water charges, after a legal test case failed in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, as reported by ABC News, Australia.
Yemen is one of the most water scarce countries in the world, where the average per capita share of renewable water resources is 125 cubic metres per year, according to government estimates. This represents one-tenth of the average in most countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and one-fiftieth of the world average, as reported by Reuters.
All over the world the latest news reports always reflect the growing water crises.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at January 24, 2006 06:15 PM
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