marenpaisley | Scientists Say Risk of Water Wars Rising

"Continuing on our present path will mean more conflict," a report by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) said.

With the world's population growing at exponential rates there was extreme pressure on water supplies to provide drinking water and food, said scientists at the Stockholm gathering.

"In 2025 we will have another two billion people to feed and 95 percent of these will be in urban areas," said Professor Jan Lundqvist of Stockholm International Water Institute.

Not that any of this should come as a surprise, though the time table provided (that is, the population increase of two billion people in a mere two decades) is a real eye-opener. My mother wondered why I don't wish to have children of my own (besides, isn't educating other people's children enough? ).