[Revelation 911]

I guess sitting on the largest suppky of fresh water in the world isnt a bad thing .....what say we charge about $100 a barrel ?

[BOBTHENAILER]

Global warming will totally melt the polar ice caps, thereby providing more than enough fresh water for the next two centuries,

Thereafter, the remaining cannibals will eat each other, solving the earth's problems once and for all.

[MNJohnnie]

How does a desert country like Saudi Arabia get it’s water?

[AuntB]

If you think the oil wars have been bad, just wait for the water wars...you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

[Don Corleone]

"People will not fight over water," says Mark Zeitoun, from the London School of Economics'

Another bloody genius! We've been fighting over water here in the west since time began.

[Nathan Zachary]

There is plenty of water in this world. There's just a shortage of intelligent government, failure to plan for the future.

Spain is surrounded by water. But if they want to drink their own sewage by diverting a river which they dump all their sewage into, thinking it wouldn't be just as costly as desalinating sea water to make it potable ( I still wouldn't drink it) then more power to them.

There's something about drinking recycled sewage that appeals to leftist evirowienies.

[snarks_when_bored]

Climatologists predict that certain regions, the Mediterranean basin among them, will increasingly suffer from water shortages as global temperatures are pushed up by greenhouse gas emissions.

"...as global temperatures are pushed up by greenhouse gas emissions." Nary a qualifier nor a hint of doubt in sight...

[BwanaNdege]

"25,000 cubic meters, less than what's needed to grow an acre of wheat, and not enough to keep 30 Spaniards going for a year"

It looks like, once again, New Scientist needs an editor that is cognizant of a few rules of thumb.

20 inches of annual rainfall will grow 50 to 100 bushels of wheat per acre. 20 inches of rainfall on one acre is 2056 cubic meters. So 25,000 cubic meters will grow a bumper wheat crop on more than 12 acres, not one.

Additionally, my county health department calculates 150 gallons per person per day, making 54,750 gallons the annual per capita consumption.

25,000 cubic meters equals 6,604,303 gallons, enough to provide for 121 people, not 30.