World's Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure
Global fresh water use tripled during the second half of the twentieth century as the population more than doubled and as technological advances let farmers and other water users pump groundwater from greater depths and harness river water with more and larger dams. As global demand soars, pressures on the world's water resources are straining aquatic systems worldwide.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080206EB.shtml
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