Ban Ki-moon warns that water shortages are increasingly driving conflicts

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Ban Ki-moon warns that water shortages are increasingly driving conflicts

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UN News Centre

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Article

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6 February 2008

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Link to UN press release http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=25527&Cr=water&Cr1

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...Many of today’s conflicts around the world are being fuelled or exacerbated by water shortages and Climate change is only making the situation worse, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly today.

Briefing an informal Assembly session on the crises in Kenya, Darfur and Chad, as well as his recent trip to Europe and Africa, Mr. Ban noted that he told the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month that “increasingly, fights are erupting over such basic human needs as water or arable land...

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