Reply #11: There are water shortages in many parts of the globe [View All]

[TheFarseer]

The developing world of course, but also in Europe, California and it was a big deal in Georgia earlier this year. Even Nebraska, which is sitting on a huge underground aquifer is fighting it's neighbors for water. Imagine privately owned desalinization plants supplying the water for California. It was posted on DU a while back that the Bush Family Evil Empire was buying up land in Paraguay because it was sitting on the largest untapped underwater aquifer in the world. Population growth and possibly global warming will only make water shortages worse. It's been said on places other than DU that water will be the next oil.