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Climate change threatens Caribbean's water supply [1]

Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean - the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region.

Rising sea levels could contaminate supplies of fresh water and changing climate patterns could result in less rain to supply reservoirs in the coming decades, scientists and officials warned at a conference in St. Lucia this week.

Publication Date: 
06/09/2013
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Caribbean Sea [3], Climate Change [4], Water Supply [5], Drinking Water [6], Climate Impacts [7], Sea Level Rise [8], FAO [9], Desalination [10]
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