Water Crisis Threatens Food Production

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Water crisis threatening world food production: report

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Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050 , experts warned in a major report published Thursday . " Nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world's food production are now in areas where total water storage is projected to decline," said the report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW). The report also warned the water crisis could lead to an eight percent drop in GDP on average for high-income countries by 2050 and as much as 15 percent for lower-income countries..