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A combination of climate change and poor resource management is leading to water shortages in even the most developed countries, it says.

It urges water conservation on a global scale and asks rich states to set an example by repairing ageing water infrastructure and tackling pollution.

and that's why Canada will be annexed by the US in the coming century (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4796909.stm)

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Water scarcity affects one in three

By Fiona Harvey in London

Published: August 21 2006 18:13 | Last updated: August 21 2006 18:13

A third of the world’s population is suffering from a shortage of water, raising the prospect of “water crises” in countries such as China, India and the US.

Scientists had forecast in 2000 that one in three would face water shortages by 2025, but water experts have been shocked to find that this threshold has already been crossed.

Frank Rijsberman, director-general of the International Water Management Institute, said: “We will have to change business as usual in order to deal with the growing water scarcity crisis.”

About a quarter of the world’s population lives in areas of “physical water shortage”, where natural forces, over-use and poor agricultural practices have led to falling groundwater levels and rivers drying up. But a further 1bn people face “economic water shortages”, because lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers.
Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/3e3eeab2-3137-11db-b953-0000779e2340.html)

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Water shortages fosters terrorism (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2859937.stm)

A lack of water is a key factor in encouraging terrorism, the Third World Water Forum in Kyoto has heard.

Mona El Kody, the chair of the National Water Research Unit in Egypt, told delegates that living without an adequate level of access to water created a "non-human environment" which led to frustration, and from there terrorism.