We know how water scarcity translates into diseases of filth.
In addition, excessive secretion of oil, water scarcity are also major factors.
In South Asia, the Himalayan glaciers could retreat causing water scarcity.
What we call violent fundamentalism should be seen for what it really is: poverty, hunger, water scarcity and despair.
Coping with water scarcity requires addressing a range of issues, not all of them directly linked to agriculture.
The theme of this year's event is water scarcity, a problem familiarly driven by population explosion, chronic wastage and pollution.
To tackle water scarcity even as the demand for food increases, we must support initiatives to produce more food with proportionally less water.
It can easily be replicated in the whole region because the Middle East and North Africa has the greatest water scarcity in the world.
Be greatly affected by the sharp reduction of cultivated land resources, water scarcity, agricultural modernization and other factors, less and less space for the increase of food production.
We need to abandon the water stress index as a way of defining water scarcity and insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, as it fundamentally misrepresents current and future water crises in the region.
First of all, there is no magic wand, no flip of the switch that is going to suddenly eliminate water scarcity. But there are concrete ways to turn the tide against water shortages.
Car stuck in a pit, the flame, and need to get off repairs, while the lion is lying in the vehicle, eyeing it, both are faced with water scarcity to death crisis.
We at FAO recognize that the agriculture sector must take the lead in coping with water scarcity by finding more effective ways to conserve rain-fed moisture and irrigate farmlands.
