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    Remaining drops: freshwater resources: a global issue

    Pacific Institute, 2006
    This report, targeted at the financial sector, outlines key trends in water use and availability, describes new water-related risks and identifies strategies for the financial community to assess investment opportunities and dangers in order to reduce investment risk.
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    Pushing beyond earth's limits

    Earth Policy Institute, 2006
    World grain production is a basic indicator of overall food security at the global level. Since 1984, world grain production has expanded more slowly than the world’s population. By the early years of the 21st century, consumption has outstripped production.
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    Comprehensive environmental projects: linking adaptation to climate change, sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation and water management

    Centre for Development Cooperation Services, Free University, Amsterdam, 2004
    This report presents an analysis of the synergies between environmental policies and the development of comprehensive environmental projects.
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    Water for the poorest

    Eldis Document Store, 2003
    This paper reports on a United Nations conference held in Norway, November 2003, in support of the 12th session of the Commission for Sustainable Development.
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    Water supply and demand: how to meet the need for ever scarcer water supplies

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why is water a rapidly diminishing resource in many parts of the world? How do social and economic processes effect water supplies? What is the relationship between environmental factors and socio-economic processes? Research from the University of Hull examines the links between population density, forest removal, land degradation and water scarcity in Barbados, Antigua and St. Vincent.

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