STWR - Share The World's Resources

Economic growth, population increases and climate change are all contributing to stress on the world's water resources. By 2030, nearly fifty percent of the world population will be living under high-water stress, and 5 billion may be without water sanitation, according to a report by UNESCO.

A swelling global population, changing diets and mankind's expanding “water footprint” could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water, according to The World's Water 2008-2009 report by the Pacific Institute.

To overcome what President Obama calls the "tyranny of oil," he must repudiate the Carter Doctrine and reject the use of military force to ensure access to Middle Eastern petroleum - while becoming less dependent on oil, period. By Michael T. Klare.

The current absence of intense competition over oil resources does not mean that oil prices will cease to have an impact on global politics. Far from it. In fact, low prices are just as likely to roil the international landscape, only in new ways, writes Michael T. Klare.

The UN has stated that oil supply is expected to plateau in 2020 - a shocking development that has the potential to cause severe economic, social and political disruption unless dependence on petroleum is curbed, argues George Monbiot.

Rich nations supported by multinational corporations are increasingly buying the rights to agricultural land in developing countries as a direct response to the food crisis - causing massive displacement and threatening the livelihoods of poor farmers in the Global South.

Water is the dream capitalist product, with inbuilt scarcity and rarity, indispensibility to human life, and no possible substitutes. All the more reason that this universal good should be placed under democratic control and allocated fairly, says Susan George.