The United States of drought

Inter Press Service: As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage. By 2060, the gap between water supply and demand could grow to nearly four billion cubic metres per year - 10 times the amount of water used by the desert-bound city of Las Vegas."If you go to the western U.S., people are still in that mindset of trying to withdraw as much water as they can, as long as they can pump faster than......

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