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47 Chenaran Agricultural Center, Ministry of Agriculture, послание, переданное по электронной почте автору Хамидом Таравати, издателем из Ирана 25 июня 2002 г.; USDA, op. cit. note 2.

48 Deborah Camiel, “Israel, Palestinian Water Resources Down the Drain”, Reuters , 12 July 2000; USDA, op. cit. note 2; “Palestinian Water Crisis Deepens”, BBC News , 20 April 2009.

49 U.N. Population Division, op. cit note 8; Tushaar Shah et al. The Global Groundwater Situation: Overview of Opportunities and Challenges (Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute, 2000); Karin Kemper, “Groundwater Management in Mexico: Legal and Institutional Issues” – в книге: Salman M. A. Salman, ed., Groundwater: Legal and Political Perspectives , Proceedings of a World Bank Seminar (Washington, DC: World Bank, 1999), p. 117; U. N. Development Programme, Human Development Report 2006 (Gordonsville, VA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), p. 146.

50 Данные о количествах воды, необходимых для выплавки стали, взяты из книги: Sandra Postel, Last Oasis (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997), pp. 38–39; цифра 1000 т воды на 1 т зерна взята из публикации: FAO, Yield Response to Water (Rome: 1979).

51 Noel Gollehon and William Quinby, “Irrigation in the American West: Area, Water and Economic Activity”, Water Resources Development , vol. 16, No. 2 (2000), pp. 187–195; Postel, op. cit. note 50, p. 137; Pramit Mitra, “Running on Empty: India’s Water Crisis Could Threaten Prosperity”, South Asia Monitor , No. 103 (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 8 February 2007); R. Srinivasan, “The Politics of Water”, Info Change Agenda , issue 3 (October 2005); U. N. Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects : The 2007 Revision Population Database – см.: easa.un.org/unup; обновлено в 2008 г.

52 Srinivisan, op. cit. note 51; Pearce, op. cit. note 41.

53 “China Politics: Growing Tensions Over Scarce Water”, The Economist , 21 June 2004.

54 Gollehon and Quinby, op. cit. note 51; Water Strategist , various issues – см.: www.waterstrategist.com.

55 Joey Bunch, “Water Projects Forecast to Fall Short of Needs: Study Predicts 10% Deficit in State”, Denver Post , 22 July 2004.

56 Dean Murphy, “Pact in West Will Send Farms’ Water to Cities”, New York Times , 17 October 2003; Tim Molloy, “California Water District Approves Plan to Pay Farmers for Irrigation Water”, Associated Press , 13 May 2004; USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), “Table 10. Irrigation 2002 and 1997”, 2002 Census of Agriculture , vol. 1 (Washington, DC: June 2004), pp. 318–326; USDA, NASS, “Table 10. Irrigation 2007 and 2002”, 2007 Census of Agriculture , vol. 1 (Washington, DC: February 2009), pp. 372–380.

57 FAO, op. cit. note 50.

58 Данные по импорту зерна взяты из публикации: USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service, Grain: World Markets and Trade (Washington, DC, various years); USDA, op. cit. note 2.

59 Данные о реке Нил взяты из книги: Postel, op. cit. note 8; данные об импорте зерновых взяты из публикации: USDA, op. cit. note 2; расчет, дающий 1000 т воды на 1 т продовольствия, взят из публикации: FAO, op. cit. note 50.

60 U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8; USDA, op. cit. note 2.

61 USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution Country Reports (Washington, DC: October 1990); USDA, op. cit. note 2; U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8.

62 “Time for Action on Sudan”: (editorial), New York Times , 18 June 2004; “A First Step to Save Darfur” (editorial), New York Times , 3 August 2007;

“Hearings to Identify Causes of Conflict Kick Off in Darfur, Reports UN-AU Mission”, UN News Service , 22 June 2009.

63 U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8; FAO, op. cit. note 22.

64 U. N. Population Division, op. cit. note 8; Government of Nigeria, Combating Desertification and Mitigating the Effects of Drought in Nigeria , National Report on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Nigeria: November 1999); Somini Sengupta, “Where the Land is a Tinderbox, the Killing Is a Frenzy”, New York Times, 16 June 2004.

65 Sengupta, op. cit. note 64.

66 Там же.

67 James Gasana, “Remember Rwanda?”, World Watch , September/October 2002, pp. 24–32.

68 Там же.

69 U. S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center, International Da tabase – см.: www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb; обновлено 15 декабря 2008 г.; Gasana, op. cit. note 67.

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