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Water Crisis Offers Chance for Unity over Strife
Posted by Inter Press Service: Kanya D'Almeida on July 30th, 2011
Inter Press Service: As record-breaking temperature highs and rapidly melting ice caps fuel fears about impending "water wars", some experts in Washington say that the threat of full-blown conflict is exaggerated, adding that robust institutions and solid treaties could transform water crises into international cooperation.
The planet is currently home to 276 international river basins, which cover almost a half of the earth's land surface and are home to 40 percent of the global population.
Many of these basins...
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