The world's looming "water gap"

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In the face of ever more widespread water shortages and scarcity that already affect more than a billion people worldwide, Marc Gunther argues there is some good news in the form of cost-effective, sustainable solutions to address water needs

There's good and bad news from a sweeping new report on the world's water scarcity out this week from McKinsey & Co., and commissioned by such water-dependent companies as Coca-Cola, Nestle, SAB Miller...

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