NYT: Increasingly sharp water shortages could cost Yemen 750,000 jobs and slash incomes by as much as 25 percent over the next decade, warns a new report on Yemen, an increasingly troubled Middle Eastern nation. The report was produced by the consulting firm McKinsey and Company at the request of the Yemeni government. Groundwater depletion rates are so rapid in the capital, Sana, that the city could effectively run out of water by 2025, according to an estimate in the report by a ......
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In Yemen, Water Grows Scarcer
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 25th, 2010
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