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  1. ENVIRONMENT: Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    In early 2008, Saudi Arabia announced that, after being self-sufficient in wheat for over 20 years, the non-replenishable aquifer it had been pumping for irrigation was largely depleted.

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