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Posted Mon Mar 3 2008: from Reuters:
Yemen Sleepwalks Into Water Nightmare http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1204585186
 "BEIT HUJAIRA - Black-clad women trudge across a stony plateau in the Yemeni highlands to haul water in yellow plastic cans from wells that will soon dry up... These women are at the sharp end of what Yemen's water and environment minister describes as a collapse of national water resources so severe it cannot be reversed, only delayed at best...Yemen relies on groundwater, which nature cannot recharge fast enough to keep pace with a population of 22.4 million expanding by more than 3 percent a year.
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Three percent growth isn't all that bad -- but given the situation, ye men and ye women might want to give it some thought.

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