Some experts have suggested that in some cultures, food scarcity in the colder months may be to blame.
Continued investment in education and research will be essential to providing the knowledge, skills and technology needed to combat fresh water scarcity in the future.
Eliminating the induced scarcity of urban land would in my opinion simply expose the true underlying scarcity in the economy: ideas.
This is called exploiting the economics of the "long tail .They do this, first, because the internet, in effect, eliminates scarcity in the medium.
Charles F. Robinson, general counsel of the Independent System Operator, said the changes would discourage Enron-like trading tactics as well as the more threatening practice of creating artificial scarcity in the market by keeping power plants offline.
The reason for the scarcity, in the opinion of Margot Brunelle, a J. Crew spokeswoman I phoned after I got home, is that the children's collection embodies elements that adults have been requesting for years.
Companies with stuff to sell still want to reach consumers to create demand, and since advertisers are ultimately brokers of human attention they stand to benefit from scarcity, in the same way rents increase when housing is scarce.
"Against the background of young populations and popular uprisings, and given the challenges of food security and water scarcity in the medium term, the region will benefit from our ability to aid new governments face these problems," he said.
A recent study called "The Last Drop: Climate Change and the Southwest Water Crisis" found that climate change could add $1 trillion to the costs of water scarcity in the Southwest over the next century.
Rapid population growth and unsustainable water consumption has exacerbated water scarcity in the Arabian Peninsula.
Arsenic is another factor that enhances drinking water scarcity in the region.
