Food, biofuels could worsen water shortages

Surging demand for irrigation to produce food and biofuels is likely to aggravate scarcities of water but the world’s supply is not running out, an international report said on Monday.

“One in three people is enduring one form or another of water scarcity,” the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) said in a report compiled by 700 experts and backed by the United Nations and farm research groups.

The scarcity figures were higher than previous estimates.
Reuters