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Thu 04 Apr 2009Cities are running out of water, says expert
DEVELOPED CITIES and regions around the world are beginning to run out of water in advance of the effects of climate change, a seminar in Dublin was told yesterday.
The Institute of International and European Affairs was told that increasing drought was no longer “an image associated with third world charity”, but now affected cities and regions such as San Francisco, Mexico, Raleigh North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia among others in North America, as well as Barcelona in Spain, parts of southern Europe, Turkey and Egypt and large parts of Australia.
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