Time Running Out Faster Than Water, Experts Warn

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http://www.truth-out.org/time-running-out-faster-than-water-experts-warn63039


A major weeklong international water conference opened in the Swedish capital Monday with an ominous warning: time is running out faster than fresh water.

If the "massive and complex challenges" facing one of the world's most finite natural resources are not resolved soon, the future looks grimly devastating: scarcities, pollution, droughts, floods, desertification and diseases.

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Poor Thirst as Nile Taps Run Dry


The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption.

"We'll boil it when we get home," says one woman, positioning a blue jerrycan on her head.

Water shortages, aggravated by intense summer heat and recurring power outages, have forced millions of Egyptians to scavenge for water in recent months. Experts say Egypt's limited water resources have been stretched, making the supply of water vulnerable to failing infrastructure and misguided domestic water policies.

-snip of fighting over the water - with the rich winning-
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times are not going to get better