Dams, diversions and inefficient water management practices have reduced the Nile river to barely a trickle where it reaches the Mediterranean. Rising saline water tables associated with irrigation and poor land management practices may render the waters of the Indus undrinkable. Water tables are now falling by 1.5 metres per year in parts of China whilst India's underground water is being extracted at twice the rate it is being replenished by rainfall. As a Polliewatcher you would visit, write or ring your local MP on issues detailed in regular briefings sent to you by Community Aid Abroad. The growing gap between rich and poor must be arrested.
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