Water grabbing occurring at 'alarming rates'

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Deals in which rich foreign corporations and countries buy or lease agricultural land abroad result in nearly half a trillion cubic metres of fresh water also being

grabbed each year — often enough to grow sufficient food to abate undernourishment in the 'grabbed countries', a paper reveals.
The majority of land grabbing takes place in Africa and Asia, and the amount of grabbed water per capita often exceeds the water requirements needed to provide a balanced diet to residents in the grabbed nations, says the paper, published last week (2 January) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. (...)

The article:
http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/news/water-grabbing-occurring-at-alarming-rates-.html

Sull'argomento:

http://www.corriere.it/ambiente/13_gennaio_29/land-grabbing-devastazione-ambiente_273138da-6960-11e2-a947-c004c7484908.shtml

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121214-water-grabbers-global-rush-on-water-threatens-millions/

http://www.criticamente.it/index.php/ambiente/23316

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/318na4.pdf

The paper abstract:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/02/1213163110.abstract

Gli ultimi sviluppi:

http://www.greenreport.it/news/acqua/water-grabbing-maude-barlow-vi-spiego-cose/

http://comune-info.net/2015/04/ladri-acqua-nessuno-vuole-vedere/

Informazione di base:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_grabbing

Passato... prossimo:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5007:lafrica-e-le-sue-risorse-idriche&catid=33:ambiente&Itemid=58