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There is no more fresh water on the planet today than there was 2,000 years ago when the earth's human population was less than three percent its current [1993] size of 5.5 billion people. Humanity's use of water quadrupled between 1940 and 1990; while half of that increase could be attributed to rising per capita consumption, the other half was purely a function of population growth. 430 million people lived in countries considered water stressed and 1.2 billion whose water supply was dangerously polluted. |
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