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Experts: Half World Faces Water Shortage by 2080

A little girl collects water from a leak in a pipe in a camp for displaced people, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008 in Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. Half the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Half the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned Tuesday.

Wong Poh Poh, a professor at the National University of Singapore, told a regional conference that global warming was disrupting water flow patterns and increasing the severity of floods, droughts and storms _ all of which reduce the availability of drinking water.

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