Liz Marshall: Reflections
WATER: vital statistics
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Nearly 70% of the worlds freshwater is locked in ice.
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Most of the rest is in Aquifers that we are draining much more quickly than the natural recharge rate.
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Two-thirds of our water is used to grow food.
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With 83 million more people on earth each year, water demand will keep going up unless we change how we use it.
- WATER, Our Thirsty World. National Geographic. April 2010.
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