Maybe y’all knew this already, but I read this today and felt sick to my stomach:

Rijsberman said the price of water would have to increase to meet an expected 50 percent increase in the amount of food the world will need in the next 20 years.

Emphasis, and trepidation about the not-so-distant future, mine.

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