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135:'Hot stains' areas are one term given where water reserves are disappearing. These areas include the Middle East, Northern China, Mexico, California and almost two dozen countries in Africa. Today thirty-one countries and over 1 billion people completely lack access to clean water. The global freshwater crisis looms as one of the greatest threats ever to the survival of our planet according to Maude Barlow and
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A hot stain is a part of the world that's actually running out. It isn't cyclical drought, or it's a combination of cyclical drought and lack of water that reinforces itself. These are parts of the world that are literally not going to be habitable without trucking in water or finding some new source
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Kravcik's scientists have also issued a dire warning about the growing number of what they call "hot stains" on the earth - places where previously existing water has already disappeared. In the near future, the "drying out" of the earth will cause drought; massive global warming with, its attendant
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extremes in weather; less protection from the atmosphere; increased solar radiation; decreased biodiversity; the melting of the polar ice caps; submersion of vast territories; massive continental desertification; and eventually, in
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