By 2030, global demand for #water will outstrip supply by 40%

Our disappearing water, Saving Our Blue Future 

Other Words - Since 1990, half the rivers in China have disappeared. The Ogallala Aquifer that supplies the U.S. breadbasket will be gone "in our lifetime," the U.S. Department of Agriculture says.

By 2030, global demand for water will outstrip supply by 40 percent, a surefire recipe for great suffering. Five hundred scientists recently told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that our collective abuse of water has caused the planet to enter "a new geologic age" and that the majority of the planet's population lives within 31 miles of an endangered water source.

Please continue reading at: Other Words