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Peter Gleick on Water Poverty, Conflict, and a Hope for the Future

Climate One

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The Limits of Water Use in the United States

Arizona just announced it's going to stop developers from building some new subdivisions around Phoenix because the state has determined there is not enough groundwater to support it. We're running up against absolute limits to how much water is available to us, he says. "We've always assumed that we could develop wherever we want it and whatever we wanted"

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