Water Scarcity: The Real Food Crisis


	Water Scarcity: The Real Food Crisis

egsnyder

6-4-2008 4:57 PM

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food, scarcity, water

egsnyder says:

This surfaced on Facebook. Good read.

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<IMG width="100" height="100" alt="fred pearce" src="http://e360.yale.edu/images/features/Pearce-author-de.jpg" /><B>ABOUT THE AUTHOR</B>
Fred Pearce is a freelance author and journalist based in the UK.  He is environment consultant for <I>New Scientist</I> magazine and author of recent books <EM>When The Rivers Run Dry</EM> and <EM>With Speed and Violence</EM> (Beacon Press).  His next, <EM>Confessions of an Eco Sinner,</EM> is published in the fall.  Fred has travelled to 64 countries reporting on environmental and development issues in the past two decades.  He is also a regular public speaker and has presented on his books in all six populated continents in the past year.  Next stop, he says: Antarctica.<BR clear="all" />
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