<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/472f43fb-3312-44c5-b3f9-81dfc8058780/39055E35-3903-4067-B20C-24488329AD0C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/scientists-warn-south-africa-to-run-out-of-surface-water.php" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/scientists-warn-south-africa-to-run-out-of-surface-water.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.treehugger.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/scientists-warn-south-africa-to-run-out-of-surface-water.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.treehugger.com/img/AFDCD5BA-58C3-4DA3-B86A-A256B30A2589" alt="Elephants at Addo Park South Africa Photo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/scientists-warn-south-africa-to-run-out-of-surface-water.php">In a recent update to a study on <A href="http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/care2-water.html">water resource availability</A> in South Africa, scientists are now warning that previous estimates were off and that there is even less water available than previously estimated</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/scientists-warn-south-africa-to-run-out-of-surface-water.php">As the planet, and South Africa in particular, become hotter and drier, scientists warn that the nation has some serious decisions to make, and now.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/scientists-warn-south-africa-to-run-out-of-surface-water.php"><P>With 98% of surface water already accounted for, one wonders how much groundwater is available for use. Currently 41% of usable groundwater is allocated, leaving roughly 10,000 million cubic meters of <A href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/nile-delta-poised-to-be-sunk-sea-level-rise-groundwater-salinity-already-problem.php">groundwater available</A>, but during droughts South Africa will have 25% less water available. Scientists are also estimating that South Africa has become 2% hotter and 6% drier since the 1970s, affecting water resources and increasing the struggle between citizens, animals, farmers and industries, all in need of water rights.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/scientists-warn-south-africa-to-run-out-of-surface-water.php">serious odds facing any nation and unfortunately this is probably not the last country to go through this.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/39055E35-3903-4067-B20C-24488329AD0C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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