Assuredly, solar-desalination systems cannot save most of a thirsty world in the next decades. But at the speed awareness is spreading--especially for have-nots--and with governmental clampdowns on freshwater exploitation and household-conservation practices, at least a few hundred billion will not face a water Armageddon.
Links:
[1] Younos, Tamim and Tammy E. Parece, (2013), Water use and conservation, 21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook. Stoltman, Joseph P., U.S. Geological Survey, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks CA, 40, p. 447.
[2] www.unfpa.org/swp#ref_facts.
[3] http://www.foodispower.org/water-usage-privatization/
[4] http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/big-idea/09/desalination.
[6] www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/.
[8] click here.
[9] Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1798, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," The Oxford Anthology of English Poetry,
Oxford University Press, New York, 1990, II: p.109.
[10] www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mountaintop_removal.
[12] click here.
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