March 05, 2003 -
Grim Future for World's Water -
Reuters, WiredNews, PARIS --
World water reserves are drying up fast
and booming populations, pollution and
global warming will combine to cut the
average person's water supply by a third
in the next 20 years, the United Nations
said on Wednesday. A report published by
the U.N. on Wednesday ahead of the Third
World Water Forum in Kyoto, Japan,
criticized political leaders for failing
to take action and, in some cases,
disputing the very existence of a water
crisis. "About 20 percent of the world's
population does not have access to safe
drinking water, which we take for
granted," said Gordon Young, director of
the World Water Assessment Program at
UNESCO, the U.N.'s cultural agency,
which compiled the report...
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