405 from whence 40 percent of Egypt's food production comes
United Nations Development Programme, "Adaption to Climate Change in the Nile Delta Through Integrated Coastal Zone Management," 2009, p. 9, http://nile-delta-adapt.org/index.php?view=DownLoadAct&id=6.
406 increase its population 85 percent during the same period
Brown, Plan B 4.0.
407 complaints by Iraq and Syria that they are being treated unjustly
Brown, "This Will Be the Arab World's Next Battle."
408 will only get worse as populations in all the affected countries increase
"Thirsty South Asia's River Rifts Threaten 'Water Wars,' " Alertnet, July 23, 2012, http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/thirsty-south-asias-river-rifts-threaten-water-wars/; "Southeast Asia Drought Triggers Debate Over Region's Water Resources," VOA News, March 24, 2010, http://www.voanews.com/content/southeast-asia-drought-triggers-debate-over-regions-water-resources-89114447/114686.html.
409 Colorado River system are being waged in court
Felicia Fonseca, "Arizona High Court Settles Water Rights Query," Associated Press, September 12, 2012; "Colorado Court Ruling Limits Water Transfer Rights," American Water Intelligence, July 2011, http://www.americanwaterintel.com/archive/2/7/opinion/colorado-court-ruling-limits-water-tranfers-rights.html; "Pivotal Water Rights Case on Wastewater Rights," American Water Intelligence, June 2011, http://www.americanwaterintel.com/archive/2/6/analysis/pivotal-water-rights-case-wastewater-rights.html; "Navajo Lawmakers Approve Water Rights Settlement," Associated Press, November 5, 2010; Jim Carlton, "Wet Winter Can't Slake West's Thirst," Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2011.
410 an official with a Kenyan NGO, Friends of Lake Turkana
Kremena Krumova, "Land Grabs in Africa Threaten Greater Poverty," Epoch Times, September 21, 2011.
411 "There is no doubt"
Anil Ananthaswamy, "African Land Grabs Could Lead to Future Water Conflicts," New Scientist, May 26, 2011.
412 "Rich countries are eyeing Africa"
John Vidal, "How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab," Guardian, March 6, 2010.
413 an agricultural real estate boom in Africa
Lorenzo Cotula, "Analysis: Land Grab or Development Opportunity?," BBC News, February 21, 2012.
414 Liberia's land, for example, has been sold to private investors
Anjala Nayar, "African Land Grabs Hinder Sustainable Development," Nature, February 1, 2012.
415 signed deals with foreign growers for 21.1 percent of its land
Cotula, "Analysis: Land Grab or Development Opportunity?"
416 was sold to investors after the country won its independence
Nayar, "African Land Grabs Hinder Sustainable Development."
417 grow palm oil for biofuel on 2.8 million hectares of land
Vidal, "How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab."
418 calculated that 44 percent was dedicated to biofuels
Krumova, "Land Grabs in Africa Threaten Greater Poverty."
419 United Arab Emirates purchased slightly more
Vidal, "How Food and Water Are Driving a 21st-Century African Land Grab."
420 "Thousands of people will be affected and people will go hungry"
Ibid.
421 area of the nation of Pakistan-and that two thirds