A lot of the food we eat is at least 75% water. The international trade of food amounts to shipping large quantities of water from one place to the next. When the West imports food from non-industrialized and/or 3rd world nations, it's removing water from those places in the form of the crop or food product as well as the water used to grow it. And this is while, as the article you cited mentions, "An estimated 35–50 percent of urban dwellers in Africa and Asia lack adequate access to safe potable water."
-B.
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5063
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> Wojtek