Global water crisis leaves half of world food production at risk in next 25 years
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Landmark review says urgent action needed to conserve resources and save ecosystems that supply fresh water.
By Fiona Harvey, Environment editor
More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned in a landmark review.
Half the world’s populat...
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