Water scarcity is not a problem just for the developing world. In California, legislators are currently proposing a $7.5 billion emergency water plan to their voters; and U.S. federal officials last year warned residents of Arizona and Nevada that they could face cuts in Colorado River water deliveries in 2016.

Classified as: climate change, Nature Geoscience, recycling, Gleeson, desalination, irrigation, water scarcity, water stress
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Published on: 29 Aug 2014
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