Water stress is becoming a major obstacle to economic development in many parts of the world.

Water scarcity is hitting virtually every major economic center, from North America to Europe, Africa, India, and China.

A major hindrance to scientific progress is the increasing scarcity of research funding a trend that has been exacerbated by the global economic crisis.

The report defined physical water scarcity, as being where there are insufficient water resources to meet the demands of the population, and economic water scarcity as where water requirements are not satisfied because of a lack of investment in water or human capacity.

Medicine and food shortage

Symptoms of economic water scarcity include a lack of infrastructure, with people often having to fetch water from rivers for domestic and agricultural uses.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Our resources are scarce.

Third, we are entering an era of resource scarcity.

Factors contributing to the paucity of gender statistics

China and India already are water stressed economies.

Western observers, focusing on recent public statements by Xi and Li, highlight a dearth of comments in favor of economic or political reforms.

In making the decision, the Court acknowledged that the State might have to establish different times, degrees and ways of implementing specific rights, bearing in mind the scarcity of resources and the obligation to realize all economic, social and cultural rights.

Moreover, economic costs for the individual and the home economy are likely to be minimal owing to scarce employment opportunities at home and the limited capacity for collecting income taxes.

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

During the housing bubble, prices signaled a severe scarcity of houses.

In San'a itself, the scarcity of corn caused a rebellion in 1772.

This is the result of scarce financial resources, which should provide for better work conditions.

The increased scarcity of common resources, as well as the erosion of biogenetic diversity and degradation of land, water and other public goods,19 affect the productivity and economic viability of women's work, both in farm and non farm activities.

It is now one of the 50 rarest birds in the world.

With attention and money in scarce supply, what matters is that we first tackle the problems with the best solutions, doing the most good throughout the century.

So today s talk of oil scarcity, which began at the turn of the last century, should come as no surprise.

One specific result was water scarcity, with once abundant sources of water drying up.

And the economic costs of restricted access to healthcare and education, on top of the scarcity of clear air and potable water, will be crippling in the mid and long term.

No. Overconsumption of animals, and of course, junk food, is the problem, along with our paltry consumption of plants.

And, because they rely on seawater, they cause no freshwater scarcity.

Agriculture ministers by themselves will not be able to cope with water shortages that farmers will face.

Surely, today s low volatility is partly cyclical.

The situation of public hospitals has worsened during the year, particularly due to the scarcity of resources and services.

According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), water scarcity would be a major issue in the coming 20 years.

However, water scarcity is already a critical constraint to farming in many parts of the world.

We get droughts, increased desertification, crashing food systems, water scarcity, famine, forced migration, political instability, warfare, crisis.

It also brought back that scarcest of assets confidence in the viability of the eurozone economy and its currency, the euro.

Yet many young people are ill prepared for secondary school, and places are scarce.

However, in 1999, the Surgeon General reported that there is a dearth of child psychiatrists.

In view of the scarcity of resources, it was essential to draw on the experience of existing social and cultural organizations.

Moreover, there is a dearth of staff with solid operational expertise, and there is no training programme in place to remedy the situation.

Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water scarce areas.

They pointed to a dearth of bomb shelters in Arab towns and villages and a lack of basic emergency information in Arabic.

This is a very serious yet very popular error, as the character 昪 is a very rare word.

Very little hard statistical information is available to inform political debate and decision making.

Trial by jury, which was infrequent anyway, is being seen less and less.

In particular, the projected intensification of freshwater scarcity as a result of climate change will cause greater stresses in drylands.

Rapid population growth, unsustainable water use and increasing pollution levels further contribute to water scarcity problems in the region.

Actually a little less than 1.8 of the world's human population fit into such a category so is it perhaps the rarity of such individuals that make them so attractive?