Billions Face Water Shortages, Crisis Looms

I think I need to find a piece of property with a well or a spring or something like that. Hoist some buckets up in trees, with tubes to a main resevoir on the ground, but uphill from the tent.

Billions Face Water Shortages, Crisis Looms: Agency:

A third of the world is facing water shortages because of poor management of water resources and soaring water usage, driven mainly by agriculture, the International Water Management Institute said on Wednesday.

Water scarcity around the world was increasing faster than expected, with agriculture accounting for 80 percent of global water consumption, the world authority on fresh water management told a development conference in Canberra.

Globally, water usage had increased by six times in the past 100 years and would double again by 2050, driven mainly by irrigation and demands by agriculture, said Frank Rijsberman, the institute's director-general.
Billions of people in Asia and Africa already faced water shortages because of poor water management, he said.

'We will not run out of bottled water any time soon but some countries have already run out of water to produce their own food,' he said.

'Without improvements in water productivity ... the consequences of this will be even more widespread water scarcity and rapidly increasing water prices.'
The Sri Lanka-based institute, funded by international agricultural research organisations, is due to formally release its findings at a conference in Sweden later this month.

Rijsberman said water scarcity in Asia and Australia affected about 1.5 billion people and was caused by over-allocating water from rivers, while scarcity in Africa was caused by a lack of infrastructure to get the water to the people who need it.

'The water is there, the rainfall is there, but the infrastructure isn't there,' Rijsberman told reporters.
He said more needed to be done to promote rain-fed agriculture and to increase water storage in Africa, where many people live with water scarcity.