Biofuel Production to Cause Water Shortages?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday August 20, 2006 @09:27PM from the action-reaction dept.

WED Fan writes "Scientists meeting in Stockholm are reporting that increased food and biofuel production will place higher demand upon irrigation and water resources." From the article: "Demand for irrigation -- which absorbs about 74 percent of all water used by people against 18 percent for hydro-power and other industrial uses and just 8 percent for households -- was likely to surge by 2050. Many nations are also shifting to produce biofuels -- from sugarcane, corn or wood -- as a less polluting alternative to fossil fuels. Oil prices at $75 a barrel and worries about global warming are driving the shift."

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Re:There's only one way out of this by RsG · 2006-08-20 22:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

This is slashdot. Don't you think you're puting the cart before the horse? JPEGs can't get pregnant...

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Re:Living on starvation by tindur · 2006-08-20 23:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So who's the one getting all the oil money? GWB? Good for him that he is in a position to arrange all kind of crisis in the Middle east to lift the lousy price on oil.