Water Wars: fight the food crisis

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It takes a huge amount of fresh water to grow food. Supplies are dwindling because of poor water management, increasing demand and our changing climate. As the world’s population explodes, we have to ask… do we fight for fresh water now or wait for a global food crisis?

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2 people have commented:

  1. Dave says:
    September 20, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    Great video!

  2. Sarah says:
    September 21, 2011 at 9:46 am

    brilliant video, very helpful

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