In a report released on March 11, the World Bank said water availability per person in the region was set to drop by half by 2050.
The World Bank said that many countries in the area already faced full-blown crises in meeting water demand, and that was likely to worsen without reform.
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Posted March 12th, 2007 by Dinka
