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Sat 07 Jul 2008Stark risks of looming global water crisis
WORLD VIEW:IF WE live in a risk society, as the German sociologist Ulrich Beck argues persuasively that we do, it is important to understand what the risks are, writes Paul Gillespie.
A conference convened in London by the Global Markets Institute, a research wing of Goldman Sachs, put "resource scarcity - competition for water, food and energy in an era of climate change" at the top of its list, ahead of income inequality, financial integration, demographic transition and rising protectionism.
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