Is WATER the new oil?

[IQS.RLOW]

I can refer to his father in even less flattering terms if you like. Darko probably wishes he was wiped on a kleenex rather than have to put up with the lifelong embarrassment and suffering of having a pathetic piece of shit like you as a father

[Aussie]

I can refer to his father in even less flattering terms if you like. Darko probably wishes he was wiped on a kleenex rather than have to put up with the lifelong embarrassment and suffering of having a pathetic piece of shit like you as a father

Enough. Get back on topic.

[lisa jones]

Oh dear .. there WAS a topic in here somewhere.

Let me see if I can find it again ..

[Rainbow Moonlight]

Yes, it is Annie. Next time it happens in 'Politics' feel free to move it where it belongs.

IQ...that is the last time you will refer to the Mother of Darko in any way whatsoever, let alone with the vulgarity you have adopted in this Thread. If you do it again, I will give you a very extended holiday. Cut that crap out, or you will be moved out.

You have been extremely tolerant Aussie - abuse of family members has always been a no-no on PA.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Water shortages threaten food future in the Middle East
http://www.grist.org/food/2011-05-03-wa ... iddle-east

Thus in the Arab Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. For the first time in history, grain production is dropping in a geographic region with nothing in sight to arrest the decline. Because of the failure of governments in the region to mesh population and water policies, each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Drought to Persist in China, U.S. Europe Wheat Areas, U.K. Forecaster Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-0 ... -says.html

The La Nina event is likely to continue to block rain from moving into the wheat-growing regions in the U.S. and China through mid-May, while the North Atlantic Oscillation will curb significant rainfall in France, Germany and the U.K., preventing the replenishment of soil moisture, Jim Dale, a senior risk meteorologist at British Weather said.

Dry weather may curb grain output, further boosting world food prices that rose to near a record in April and adding to pressure on central banks from Beijing to Brasilia to increase interest rates. About 44 million people have been pushed into poverty since June by the “dangerous levels” of food prices, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in February.

“A lot of things are going in the wrong direction, with areas that don’t usually get rains getting more rainfall, while those areas where you’d expect rains, having drought,” said Dale, who correctly predicted last month that drier conditions will persist in China through this month. “Prices are going to go higher rather than lower.”

Dry weather may jeopardize farmers’ plans to boost global production and replenish stockpiles that have been drained after the worst drought in at least half a century in Russia and excessive rains in Canada and Australia slashed harvests of food-quality wheat.

The International Grains Council lowered last month its outlook on global wheat production in the 2011-2012 season by 1 million tons to 672 million metric tons, matching global demand, because of “less than ideal conditions for some crops” in the U.S., the European Union and China. Further losses to the crop may cause production to lag behind demand for a second straight year, draining inventories.

Dry weather threatens to curb output in growing regions in China after similar conditions caused the winter-wheat crop in the U.S., the largest shipper, to deteriorate, while England had the hottest April in at least 352 years.