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Western Australia receives wake up call on dwindling water supply.
A report from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) forecasts that the capital city of Perth in Western Australia state could see water supplies reduced by 50% in two decades.

This is due in part to less groundwater availability, including the Gnangara Aquifer that supplies Perth's drinking water, which is expected to decline 33% by 2030.

Perth and surrounding areas have already experienced a 50% reduction in water supplies since the mid-1970s, which has been attributed to global warming.

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong stated that the recent CSIRO report and its forecast of further reduced resources brings significant concern for the region.

Your Excellency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization researchers and Australia, we appreciate your work and cautionary concern.

Let us swiftly adopt lifestyles to reverse these adverse effects and restore our planet for future generations.
In an August 2009 videoconference in Thailand, Supreme Master Ching Hai urged as she has in previous times for immediate action to counter the world’s fast dwindling water supplies.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: We have over six billion people in this world and the sources of groundwater for wells, which supports half of our world population, are dying, drying up. And the top ten global river systems, drying or ebbing away.

And three billion people are short of water. How many more, I don’t know, how many more of suffering people are we waiting before we take action? Please do it now! Just be veg. Stop the meat, dairy, fish industry. Be benevolent.

Create a merciful energy that will envelop our world, that will emit mercy, love, protection for us and our children on this planet. Please take action now. Very simple. Just be veg.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/water-supplies-could-halve-in-two-decades/story-e6frg13u-
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http://www.conservationwa.asn.au/

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/22/climate-patriots-video-fi_n_469069.html
http://www.pewclimatesecurity.org/

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US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar conveys the need for urgent change in response to this year’s “State of the Birds” report, which says that an increasing number of native birds, known to be indicators of environmental health, are currently at risk of extinction.  
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/climate-change-pushing-bird-species-towards-extinction-
us-20100312-q2mi.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1Y_yGpe8AEqp8-OBN0G0FD_CnzgD9ECO3LO0

An international team of scientists exploring the ocean floor near Antarctica collect core samples that reveal previous global warming in the Earth’s 53-million-year history, including a time that Antarctica’s climate was balmy and subtropical.  
http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/1652916.html