Drink Up.. While You Can

World Water Day is this Saturday, the 22nd, and the United Nations calls out a warning just in time for the big day:
By 2025, fully a third of the planet's growing population could find itself scavenging for safe drinking water.
Oh jeeze. And the people who are effected? The people living in third world countries. In fact there are already a person dying every 20 seconds as a result from unsanitary drinking water. And the result of death does not seem to be the only crisis projected to come from it.
"In the coming decades, water scarcity may be a watchword that prompts action ranging from wholesale population migration to war, unless new ways to supply clean water are found," comment a team of researchers in a review of water purification technology published Thursday in the British journal Nature.
While new projects, technology, governments and heroes of the world try to avert this emergency, a new catastrophe has appeared in the horizon: Global Warming. Rising sea levels are already forcing salt water into aquifers beneath megadeltas that are home to tens of millions, and changing weather patterns are set to intensify droughts in large swathes of Africa, southern Europe and Asia, according to UN's Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).
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