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Feb 19, 2009 25 min

Underreported: Peak Water

from Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show Hosted by New York Public Radio, WNYC

A large portion of China and India’s fresh water supply comes from glaciers found on the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. According to a new report by the World Economic Forum, those glaciers will be gone by 2100. That means the water sources for 2 billion people will simply dry up. Dr. Peter Gleick is the President and Co-founder of the Pacific Institute, a nonpartisan research institute that works for sustainable management of resources.

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