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News Release 12-213
Water Resources Management and Policy in a Changing World: Where Do We Go From Here?
Scientists at American Geophysical Union conference present new findings on a resource becoming more precious than gold
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![Photo of a drop reaching water.](/news/mmg/media/images/waterpolicy1_f.jpg)
How long will water be available to nourish life on Earth? Scientists report new findings at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Dec. 3-7, 2012.
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![Photo of rice paddies and the water that nurtures them in China.](/news/mmg/media/images/waterpolicy2_f.jpg)
Rice paddies and the water that nurtures them in ChangQing in China's Qinling mountains.
Credit: Andres Vina, Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
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A woman works in rice paddies in ChangQing in the Qinling mountains of China.
Credit: Andres Vina, Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
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![Photo of dessert, mountains, houses and a small body of water.](/news/mmg/media/images/waterpolicy4_f.jpg)
Fifty years after Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," is a new silent spring on the horizon?
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![Photo of a US woman soldier giving water to drink to a girl.](/news/mmg/media/images/waterpolicy5_f.jpg)
Across the U.S. and around the world, we are water-stressed.
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![Photo of a stream surrounded by vegtation and palm trees in a desserted area.](/news/mmg/media/images/waterpolicy6_f.jpg)
Will Earth someday be a dusty place where stream beds turn to sand?
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