Task 2: Text Two
2. One of the biggest problems which environmental science faces is that of diminishing water resources. This is a world-wide problem, but while a shortage of fresh water in most Western countries causes merely inconvenience (such as hosepipe bans), vast areas of the world which depend on subsistence agriculture suffer catastrophic famines when the rains fail. This has caused scientists and government agencies to seek ways of increasing the availability of this precious resource, such as desalination plants, canals for moving water to where it is needed and cutting down our use of water.
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