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Many thanks to our kind friend Albert Bartlett, professor emeritus of Physics at Univ of Colorado-Boulder. You can find him here at   http://www.albartlett.org/ .

World Life Expectancy  Percentage of Population without Reasonable Access to Drinking Water   A look at population growth since the Old Stone Age.  Feel free to ignore the estimated population through 2025, the current world population is approximately 6.8 billion.  Our lights seen from a far. 

Imagine how they would act if there wasn't enough food or clean water to go around. 

The world faces a major problem, water scarcity.   The process of desertification has turned China into 25% desert.  China is now expected to lose over 1,200 square miles of arable land to desertification every year.   Massive aquifers are slowly drained over time as we direct the flow towards increased urbanization and required by steady growth in worldwide food demand.  Pollution takes it's toll on much of lies above, pure water is undoubtedly precious.