Water covers about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Of this total, only about 2.5 percent is fresh water, and most of this is frozen in the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland, in soil moisture, or in deep aquifers not readily accessible for human use.
タグ: only, earth, deep, water

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I like the back country, wildlife and all of that, but it's wrong to force poor people to live that way.
タグ: poor, way, live, people
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries.
タグ: revolution, progress, green, change
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
タグ: hungry, more, world, food
Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.
タグ: made, because, infrastructure, food
In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer.
タグ: population, us, believe, food
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