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Is Earth Running Out of Freshwater?

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One question for Matthew Birkhold, author of Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet and an associate professor in the department of Germanic languages and literatures at The Ohio State University.

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Is Earth running out of freshwater?

f we project into the future a little bit to 2030, the global demand for freshwater will exceed supply by

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