But the extra 1.5 billion people expected to live on the continent by 2050 will double Asia's demand for food, says the report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Bank-funded International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Water management is the wrong tool when the problem is overpopulation of the planet. The U.N. and the Guardian seem unwilling to face the core problem.
The world's ecosystem cannot sustain the current population, let alone the population growth envisioned.
The last green revolution staved off starvation but resulted in 700m more mouths to feed and nature which provides so much for free pushed further into a corner. Better irrigaion and the next green revolution may just push us over the cliff. Population always increases to use any advances in food production. The only solution is affordable contraception in the hands of every woman in the world
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