http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/bangladeshi-prime-minister-presses-india-for-water-deal-during-visit/ Reporting the Global Water Crisis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:22:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/bangladeshi-prime-minister-presses-india-for-water-deal-during-visit/comment-page-1/#comment-7856 GI Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:51:03 +0000 http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/?p=10044#comment-7856 Many observers on this issue are agreeing that deals over natural resources, especially water, will be common-place over the next decade and beyond. Professor Stewart Burn has written an essay for the Future Agenda Project in which he outlines the future of water as a resource and the challenges surrounding it, stressing its importance as “the only natural resource with no substitute” and how “overall demand for freshwater will exceed supply by more than 50% by 2025 and so the number of people living in water stressed regions will increase”: http://www.futureagenda.org/?cat=5. Many observers on this issue are agreeing that deals over natural resources, especially water, will be common-place over the next decade and beyond. Professor Stewart Burn has written an essay for the Future Agenda Project in which he outlines the future of water as a resource and the challenges surrounding it, stressing its importance as “the only natural resource with no substitute” and how “overall demand for freshwater will exceed supply by more than 50% by 2025 and so the number of people living in water stressed regions will increase”: http://www.futureagenda.org/?cat=5.

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