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social and political upheaval in many major Third World cities. According to The Worldwatch Institute, an unexpectedly abrupt decline in the world's supply of water for China's farmers could threaten global food securiry. --MAUDE BARLOW + TONY CLARKE
her ~etermining that a gallon of water used in indusuy generates 60 times the cash value of the same gallon used in agriculture, Chinese political leaders responded by diverting more of China's rural water sources to industry. But if China faces shortfalls in it's own grain production, the resulting demand for imported grain could at times exceed the world's available exportable supplies. China might be able to survive such shortages because it's booming economy and huge trade surpluses would give it the cash to' buy grain. However rising demand would force
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