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Water wars

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Did you know?

  • The glaciers in the Himalayas are retreating and they hold back the waters in the monsoon season! This is the source of the Ganges, the Yellow River and the Yangtze.
  • Half of the worlds population, over 3 billion people live off the water of those 3 rivers.
  • China has 21% of the worlds population, but only controls 7% of the worlds water
  • Global water demand is doubling every 20 years.
  • 1KG of beef takes 15 cubic meters of water to produce
  • 1KG of bpoultry takes 6 cubic meters of water to produce
  • 1KG of corn takes 1.5 cubic meters of water to produce

Egypt has already said if anyone takes water from the Nile upstream without agreement, they may use miltary force to prevent it.

Doug drinking

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One Response to “Water wars”

  1. AndyS said on July 9th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    uh oh another the earth is doomed post from Doug – reding your blog is like an emotional rollercoaster, but at leats it makes one think!

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