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Avert water wars – build desalination plants

Chonicle: Get ready for the water wars. Most of the world's population takes water for granted, just like air - two life-sustaining substances. After all, the human body is nearly two-thirds water. But a Hindustan Times blogger said that in India right now, as in so many other places around the globe, drinkable water has become such a precious commodity that it's dragging the world into "water wars to follow the ones for the control of fuel oil." Climate change is drying up lakes and rivers almost...