WATER SCARCITY REQUIRES COMPLEX AND HOLISTIC SOLUTIONS ACROSS EUROPE
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
YOU might think, given the preponderance of doomsayers predicting drought and desertification in Europe because of global warming, that the rainfall data would back them up.
But on a continent-wide scale, it does not.
A report on water scarcity issued by the European Environment Agency (EEA) earlier this year noted that "precipitation in Europe generally increased over the twentieth century, rising by 6-8 % on average between 1901 and 2005". However - and here is the nub of the problem - this was far from being a general trend across ...
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