The Guardian reports that Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, has said that water shortages caused by over-use of rivers and aquifers were already leading to serious problems, even in rich nations.
The article continues that "with climate change expected to reduce rainfall in some places and cause droughts in others, some regions could become 'economic deserts', unviable for people or agriculture."
This does not paint a very good picture. Steiner said: 'In many ways [water] is the most dramatic expression of mismanagement of natural or nature-based assets,' Steiner said. 'The day a person or a community is bereft of water is the day that your chance of even the most basic life or livelihood is gone and economic activity seeps away."
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