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Monday, September 4, 2006 - 03:00
Categories: 
Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
268 [3]
Article-Summary: 

At the August 2006 World Water Week in Stockholm, researchers presented initial findings from the "Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture" carried out by 700 experts over five years. In 2000, researchers had predicted that water scarcity would affect one third of the world's population by 2025.

Category: 
Land & Environment [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/36753 [5]

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