"...Public attention has initially focused on the dramatic rise in adult mortality and the precipitous drop in life expectancy. But we need now to look at the longer term economic consequences ... falling food production, deteriorating health care, and disintegrating educational systems. Effectively dealing with this epidemic and the heavy loss of adults will make the rebuilding of Europe after World War II seem like child's play by comparison."
"...Growing water demands are causing other lakes around the globe to vanish. (See additional examples and data.) Irrigation withdrawals from the waters that feed Africa’s Lake Chad quadrupled between 1983 and 1994. Water consumption, combined with low rainfall levels since the 1960s, has shrunk the lake by 95 percent, from 25,000 square kilometers to 1,350 square kilometers, over the past 35 years."
