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Environment & Energy

lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Mon Mar 19, 2018, 08:40 AM Mar 2018

Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns

theguardian.com

Conflict and civilisational threats likely unless action is taken to reduce the stress on rivers, lakes, aquifers, wetlands and reservoirs.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/19/water-shortages-could-affect-5bn-people-by-2050-un-report-warns

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Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns (Original Post) lordsummerisle Mar 2018 OP

"Civilizational threats" NickB79 Mar 2018 #1

K & R Duppers Mar 2018 #2

NickB79

(19,233 posts)

1. "Civilizational threats"

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Mon Mar 19, 2018, 04:54 PM

Mar 2018

Remember that phrase; we'll be hearing it a lot more in years to come.

I'm 38, healthy and come from a family where no one dies before 80, so I figure I have until 2060-2070 before I kick off

Gonna be interesting to see how this all plays out. I pity my daughter; she'll only be 40 in 2050. God, I hope she doesn't have kids of her own.

Duppers

(28,117 posts)

2. K & R

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Tue Mar 20, 2018, 08:13 PM

Mar 2018

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