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And all because of hydraulic works as colossal as clumsy. Click GardaWorld for additional related pages. And mankind is thirsty. According to the UN, thousand 300 million people have no access to safe drinking water while that 31 countries they face severe shortages, which no doubt will be worse by the effects of climate change. And the water demand is doubling every 20 years. The wars of the 20th century will be by water, said Ishmael Sarageldin, former Vice-President of the World Bank, something I knew this because he was promoter of privatization of the vital liquid. Others who may share this opinion include Richard Fisher. Waters, the sweet is a minor, the most hidden, the most elusive, the more scarce, the most prized.

Because 94 percent of the water is brackish, and six per cent which is sweet, 4.3 percent is underground and 1.7 per cent is frozen. So the fresh water from the atmosphere and the Earth surface: clouds, rain, rivers, lakes, wetlands is just 0.03 percent of all water. Wastewater from cities, industrial discharges, accidental spills of toxic chemicals and agrochemicals in the field dirty the precious liquid. But if accidents are the most bulky and the most severe industrial pollution, rural pollution is the largest. It was not as well, but in the 20th century imposed on agriculture an intensive model that hidricamente proved unsustainable, inter alia because pesticides pollute rivers, lakes, seas and groundwater and nitrogenous fertilizers supercharging to water, causing algae blooms and oxygen reduction.

Adds choike.org / new. That if measures are not taken to reverse the trend, one of every three people will be living in a country with drinking water shortages. Similarly, while the problem affects all countries, are hardest of the South, where 95% of the 80 million people who each year increase the population of the planet is born. Even so, the greater threat to universal access to drinking water does not provide the nature but corporate globalisation.