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	<title>State of the Planet &#187; UN</title>
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		<title>Population, Consumption and the Future</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Funkhouser</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[population]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/RS-report-CO2-thumbnail.bmp" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="RS report CO2 thumbnail" />As the world population grows toward 10 billion, consumption of water, food and energy is expanding at a rate that cannot be maintained without depleting the planet’s resources. If we fail to address these two issues together, we face a grim future of economic, social and environmental ills, warns a new report prepared by a group of scientists and other experts for the Royal Society.]]></description>
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		<title>Water – a Human Right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Vettel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world, over one billion people live without access to clean water resources. These people have extremely large death rates to completely preventable, waterborne illnesses. It is estimated that over two million people die every year from preventable waterborne diseases, and a large percentage of those people are children under the age of five. [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/22/water-%e2%80%93-a-human-right/">...</a>]]]></description>
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