March 17, 2006 Press Release
Poor access to reliable, safe and affordable water for food and livelihoods is a poverty trap for 70% of the world’s poor people- the 800 million poor people that live mainly in rural Africa and Asia.
“It takes about seventy times more water to grow the food we eat every day than we need for drinking, cooking, bathing and other domestic needs,” says Frank Rijsberman, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), “as much as 2,000 liters of water to grow 1 kilo of rice and 11,000 liters for a single quarter pounder hamburger”. Many rivers in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world no longer reach the sea...
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